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Lakers News: Emo Postgame Austin Reaves Look Goes Viral Instantly

The happiest news to come out of Game 2.

Alex Kirschenbaum

Lakers News: Emo Postgame Austin Reaves Look Goes Viral Instantly
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Yes, your Los Angeles Lakers lost their second straight game to the Denver Nuggets 108-103 last night, and now must somehow win four of the next five games in the Western Conference Finals to advance -- which seems, well, incredibly unlikely. I mean, have you seen the Denver Nuggets this year?

So, sure, the team's season might end a bit earlier than we would like once again.

But darn it, we can still extract some meaning from tragedy.

That's because LA shooting guard Austin Reaves, who had a fairly solid 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting from the floor (5-of-9 from deep), five assists and three rebounds in the loss, emerged for his ceremonial postgame press conference with a very 2004-2008 look, which instantly went viral on Twitter with some very creative emo references.

Exhibit A:

That wasn't the only Panic! At The Disco allusion online Thursday.

Sick burn.

Metalcore/nu-metal platinum rockers Papa Roach, whose singer Reaves pretty closely resembles, got a shoutout:

LA's record was creatively incorporated into a New Found Glory reference:

The Fallout Boy lyrics were flying:

You can probably figure out who this one's about:

Dashboard Confessional, the standard-bearers for the early days of the emo movement, got basketball-ified:

"Such Great Heights" auteurs The Postal Service (who are, technically, an indie pop supergroup spinoff featuring band members from a few emo bands rather than being emo proper) also received an NBA-core re-brand:

The Philadelphia Inquirer's Kyle Neubeck threw out some Brand New album titles:

Anthony Davis singing Saves The Day could rule, to be fair:

"American Idiot"-era Green Day, invariably, got the Reaves treatment:

Never fear, that wasn't the only "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" reference this photograph elicited:

Here's another Fallout Boy track for good measure:

Jemele Hill of The Atlantic channeled Nine Inch Nails' moody mastermind in her quote-tweet:

Imagine Dragons barely qualify as rock, but a drag screen reference is a pretty choice cut, so we're including it here:

The Reaves picture also inspired a ClutchPoints thread:

Honestly, we're just scratching the surface with this content. There is some absolute gold out there, friends. Happy hunting. If you need me, I'll be blasting some Story of the Year.

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Alex Kirschenbaum
ALEX KIRSCHENBAUM

Basketball is Alex's favorite sport, he likes the way they dribble up and down the court.

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