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AJ Dybantsa says he is no longer a Celtics fan “I’m a Celtics fan, been to multiple Celtics games... now I’m not a Celtics fan anymore… Cuz I’m about to get drafted so I’m not going to be a fan of them... I told you I’m not a fan anymore so I don’t really care what they do.”
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Tom Dundon reportedly asked personnel why Christian Wood is no longer in the NBA, believing his stats show he can still contribute, per Chris Mannix “But the reality is as you and I both know, Christian Wood is just proven to be not a winning player.” 💀 (Via Sports Illustrated)
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Both the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers are actively pursuing Jonathan Kuminga via sign-and-trade, per Shams Charania "Whatever deal could happen will likely be a sign-and-trade. So that's where both the Lakers and Cavs would need the Hawks to work with them on a Kuminga deal. They would also have to get Kuminga on the same page with them all in a potential deal."
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Stephen A. Smith begs Donald Trump to stay away from Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals: “He’s coming to Game three of the Finals, and I don’t want him there. It has nothing to do with politics, policy, or anything like that. It has everything to do with him disrupting and contributing at the same time to the chaos that’s going to be existing at Madison Square Garden. If it were Barack Obama coming to the Garden, I would say, ‘Stay home.’ Stay at the White House… I have been covering sports for over 30 years. And I’m telling you right now, come Monday, for Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, I expect to see an environment I have never seen in my entire career covering sports."
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Jay Williams: “I've talked to a couple of different players that could be Supermax this year or next year — they're starting to feel a little pressure from team owners by saying, 'Yo, Jalen Brunson left 113 million dollars on the table. What are you going to do?'”
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Pat Beverley says the Clippers offered him a contract extension around $4M-$6M, which made him ask for a trade. He texted Kawhi Leonard about it, and Kawhi called management to get them to raise the offer to $8M-$9M. “I said ‘I for sure want to leave now. F*** y’all talking to him for? I’ve been here the longest.’” 😳 (
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Karl-Anthony Towns on what he told Jalen Brunson when he arrived in New York: "I told you that the first day I got here and you welcome me here to New York, I said I want to make sure I amplify you to a whole another level that you haven't even recognized for yourself. I want to be that partner in crime that you haven't had, and I want to make sure that every step of the way, anytime you go anywhere, you're never alone. You always have someone behind you that's ready to do whatever it is to protect you, to protect this city. And I only ask for one thing in return. One thing." (Towns then pointed directly at the Larry O'Brien Trophy) (Via Roommates Show)
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Charles Barkley on why he refuses to play pickup basketball: "No disrespect to anybody playing against a local electrician... But playing against the local electrician or plumber doesn’t have the same ring as, 'Man, there’s Larry Bird over there. There’s Hakeem. There’s Karl Malone.'" "When I was a member of this health club... these guys were playing like it was Game 7 every day. I’m like, 'This is why I don’t play with you losers.' Seriously. It was a fight every day. Every foul, they’re screaming." (Via PING Proving Grounds)
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Zach Lowe: "Eight years ago I wrote a piece about the supermax and how it was forcing teams into very painful decisions with home-grown superstars. And the tentpole for it was Jimmy Butler." "If you draft a player and he becomes a success story to the point Jaylen Brown did, Finals MVP, Champion, beloved in the community, it just feels viscerally wrong that his contract becomes something you want to get rid of... something is wrong with a system that turns home-grown stars, in some cases not all, into albatross contracts."
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There is speculation around the league that the Celtics’ trade sending Jaylen Brown to the 76ers was made ‘under duress,’ per Brian Windhorst 😳 "This was not a trade that you would make in a clinical setting... You wouldn't do this trade under these circumstances if everything was equal, that something wasn't equal."
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Jalen Brunson on why he went to hug Spurs HC Mitch Johnson before his father after the win: "I hugged and said what's up to Coach Johnson from the Spurs first, just to show respect… It was just kind of instinct, like how I was raised. I think win or loss, you show respect regardless of the outcome. I’ve got a lot of respect for them over there." 💯♥️ (Via CBS Mornings)
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ESPN's Tim Legler on Chet Holmgren’s Game 7 performance "There is no denying he was shook, he was rattled. It affected the way he was processing the game, and it completely took away his aggressiveness. He started to look like a guy that was afraid of failure, and when you start to play that way as a professional athlete, that’s exactly what it’s going to look like. You don't take chances anymore. You'd rather play it safe and disappear than to try and have it not work out — drive at Wemby and have him block your shot, try to get there in time to stop Wemby at the rim and he get dunked on again. It's better not to try than to have that happen again. That's exactly what he looked like." (Via ALL NBA Podcast)
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Zach Lowe on the current Lakers roster: "They look like a team that has next to no chance to beat the Thunder and Spurs in a playoff series in the next 2-3 years, and almost no outs at all to change their team, other than trading Austin Reaves in 2 years when this doesn't work out... this is an unbelievable reach for Walker Kessler"
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An anonymous NBA GM on the Jaylen Brown trade “This is a classic case of the credit goes to the guy who scores but they're not driving team success. There's guys like this all over the league, the difference is he's not at $40M... he's at $60M. It's really hard to tie up that much money in your salary cap for one player unless they're truly generational, and he's not even close to that. Also, the league is getting smarter now. And here's the thing: the dumb teams are the cheap teams.” (Via Tim MacMahon)
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The Knicks could keep their core together for the next 3-5 years IF Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart are willing to take a pay cut, per Brian Windhorst KAT is eligible for a 4-year, $272M extension. "If Karl Towns is willing to take a little bit of a haircut, you know, $7-10 million over the course of multiple seasons and Josh Hart is also extension eligible this summer, if both of them are willing to take a little bit of a haircut, you could see this core staying together for three, four, five years."
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