The Suns are now eliminated from the playoffs but owner Mat Ishbia said 11 months ago Ask the other 29 GMs 26 of them would trade their whole team for our whole team our draft picks and everything as is The house is not on fire Were in a great position Its not hard to fix

Bobby Portis says Bucks players cant even have conversations right now with each other because the future of Giannis is so blurry Its hard for us right now to have a conversation when the future is so blurry The owner said by the draft theyre going to do something with Giannis

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

Adam Silver We've been addressing load management over the last several seasons Were down 30 this season in terms of single game absences by star players Its not even clear that load management works We have more injuries at the beginning and after All-Star break than late in the season

Adam Silver In terms of tanking theres no question that what we saw this season was unprecedented Fans in particular cities and even media were rooting for their teams to tank We had to respond not just to the narrative but to misalignment of incentives once it was an accepted practice

Bill Simmons believes that the Celtics are now in the mix to make a trade for Giannis I thought they were sitting out this Giannis thing and I no longer think that

Josh Hart on what he thought when James Dolan said the Knicks must get to the NBA Finals this seasonWe better do it or we're going to get traded