Windhorst This is what people in the league say about the Suns They are excellent at talent acquisition they are not good at team building

Windhorst When Luka LeBron and Reaves play together they're just not a good team when it's just Reaves and Luka out there the Lakers are an excellent team When all 3 of them play out there they're not It's actually a 20 point difference

Former Suns front office Amin Elhassan on Ayton You wish you were Capella and the Lakers wish you were too The tiger doesn't change his stripes he just changes jungles Guys are who they are particularly if they've always been rewarded for who they are

Brian Windhorst When LeBron doesnt play and Austin Reaves and Luka do the Lakers are a better team

Brian Windhorst on the Thunder Theres rampant Jealousy Thats when you know youve made it when everybody is complaining about you

Jason Timpf on the Colin Cowherd Podcast Against the Top 10 teams in point differential in the NBA the Lakers are getting outscored by 13 points per game which is good for 28th in the league behind only the Wizards and the Nets

Victor Wembanyama on the Knicks physicality I was surprised Yeah Theyre a good basketball team they have good actual basketball players Its not like the nastiest ugly team you know Theyre not an ugly team to watch but they made our game ugly