Winger when asked if acquiring Trae maybe signals that theyre willing to use their projected 45M in cap space to acquire talent this summer Were not necessarily hitting the gas pedal Whatever we do with that cap space - it might evaporate in the next two weeks we just dont know

Windhorst The key here is that the Cavs are moving away from believing in the Core 4 and I think the genesis of this is because they're worried that Donovan is not going to re-sign this summer

Darly Morey We're not necessarily using the 2026 HOU first-round pick in the draft It could be used for moves around the draft This just gives us more tools to make the moves that we think will help our future more than we saw--Jared who we gave up

Windhorst on why Cleveland is doing the Harden deal The key here is that the Cavs are moving away from believing in the Core 4 and I think the genesis of this is because they're worried that Donovan is not going to re-sign this summer

Windhorst The Cleveland Cavaliers are signaling that they are willing to move away from their core-4 in large part because there are legitimate worries that Donovan Mitchell will not extend with the franchise this Summer

Lakers GM Rob Pelinka on the trade deadline I would say we were aggressive And one form of being aggressive is saying no thats like being aggressive even though you end up doing nothing because its hard to say no sometimes to getting a good player

Victor Wembanyamas response to the Spurs first 50-win season in nine years Theres growth Theres still not enough I want to get at least 60 to balance out my rookie season