NBA Champion Bruce Brown I would say our toughest series was Minnsosta Later says Phoenix was just blowouts each game On the Lakers It never felt like we were gonna lose any game Even if they went on a little runb all series hitting threes it never felt like we were gonna lose

Mitch Johnson We werent ready to win an NBA championship The better team won We did a lot of good things and we didnt finish the job That's what it is

De'Aaron Fox We lost Game 3 but that was the first time he Gregg Popovich walked into the locker room and was like Nah that's BS that's not how we play basketball and obviously he had some choice words for us

Dirk Nowitzki after game 2 The Lakers are always the ones who usually win the free throw battle This is new to them that they're getting clobbered more often

LeBron on the loss to OKC We were not out worked They didnt out physical us They didnt outsmart us I feel like we were just out talented you know by OKC They just possess so much more talent

Mike Brown I talked to the refs and they said we were fouling and maybe they're right but there's examples where they were fouling and didn't get called Maybe we did foul but they were fouling too If they do this in Game 4 where it's 24-8 in the 2nd half it's going to be tough for us to win

Kobe Shaq post-game interview after going up 2-0 on the Spurs in 2001 At this point the Lakers haven't lost a game in 7 weeks