With most teams having played at least 20 games, the NBA season has reached its quarter mark, so it’s time to take stock of what we’re seeing. Yesterday, we covered seven teams that stood out with surprising starts to the 2025-26 NBA season. Some for better reasons than others. Today, we’re going to look at which individual players have provided some of the most impressive breakouts of the early season.

Austin Reaves - Guard, Los Angeles Lakers

Entering this season, Austin Reaves and the Lakers had to figure something out heading into his free agency next summer: Could he thrive and be the No. 2 offensive option they needed next to Luka Doncic ? Twenty games into the season, the only question is how much the Lakers will have to pay Reaves next summer to keep him. He is averagin

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