Chris Broussard ''This has been brewing for a while The environment in Denver Im told is toxic Calvin Booth and Michael Malone didn't get along and hadn't even been talking to each other Jokic liked Michael Malone but some other players didn't''

Zach Lowe The Clippers are somewhere beyond fucked As recently as yesterday a front office exec from another team said 'Hey the Clippers are quietly positioning themselves in case Jokic wants to leave Denver with lots of cap space and LA and all that' Forget that This team is dead

Quotes from Brian Windhorst Tim MacMahon Zach Lowe Chris Mannix and Jon Krawczynski describing how Clippers acted and lied personally to the media during the investigation Krawczynski It was a behind the scenes ferocious defense that was accusatory to anyone who dared question them

Ben Wallace says that if the team had drafted Carmelo Anthony Melo and his agent would have disrupted the teams chemistry actually making the team worse and ensuring they never won a championship He says they were better off drafting Darko Milicic instead

Jokic talks about which defenders give him the most trouble

Doc Rivers and Jim Boylen exchange words on the sidelines and get thrown out of the game right away with replays Clippers and Bulls commentary 3152019

Brian Windhorst There's a lot of people that made a lot of assumptions about Adam Silver along the way This is as big of a punishment has ever been doled out in the NBA He has been presumed to be soft on crime to a certain certain extend That's not something you can say today