Former Knicks GM Scott Perry on Donovan Mitchell talks If the other team wants 23 of your good young talent amp all your draft capital is what's left good enoughIf he was Utah wouldve been in the Conference FinalsBut he wasn'tThat's not a criticismjust an evaluation that you must make

Brad Stevens on why he traded Jaylen Brown The path looked a little bit more challenging to me with 70 of our cap and such a high usage into two players and the reality in this era and in this day and age in the NBA you have to do a great job in building depth

Sam Presti If there is one thing I'm a little frustrated about besides not winning the final quarter of the season is I think we lost out on a lot of team development

Josh Hart references the Mikal Bridges trade that sent out four unprotected first-round picks and two first-round picks swaps Forget them picks

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

Wolves GM Tim Connelly on Ant's feedback in potential roster moves There's been countless things we could have done When you go to your leaders like Ant and you say 'It takes get this to get that' the conviction he has in our guys is evident when he says 'No we're not trading this guy'

Erik Spoelstra in an old interview What you have to respect about the Knicks you have to put them away every single possession You can leave anything to effin chancethats what they do what they have is will to win