An NBA locker room is a brand new experience for rookies, and Austin Rivers has some advice for the newcomers. The Washington Wizards guard has a few words of warning for rookies.

“You can't go into someone's locker and grab some stuff because you don't have it,” Wizards guard Austin Rivers said to Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington. “If you don't have lotion or you don't have deodorant, don't go in my locker and grab some stuff.

“The organization of a rookie is bad. They come in and their drawers are on the floor, their boxers are on the floor. Everything is messy.

“I had a rookie in L.A. [Rivers played for the Clippers before being traded to the Wizards.]  He had all this stuff everywhere to the point where his underwear was on someone else's chair. Guys, they lost it. They were like ‘bro, don't ever do this again.' Just grab your s***, put it in a locker, bro.”

We've all been there before, Austin Rivers. When you have to share a room with a messy sibling or a roommate, it can get pretty frustrating. You can live with it and you try not to complain. But once your roommate's mess starts invading on your personal space, it's over.

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That's exactly what it sounds like to be in an NBA locker room. But in an NBA locker room players have to deal with a dozen or so teammates, and a few of them are sloppy rookies.

Austin Rivers is having none of it.