Mavs Interim GM Matt Riccardi on the AD trade We had to take an honest look at ourselves and realize where we were and where we wanted to be Sometimes the path is not straightfoward and you gotta go a roundabout way to get where we want to go but our goal here remains the same we want to win

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

David Adelman reflects on the loss to OKC in overtime It's a good learning lesson we may have to change up who plays whenthe way I'd like to play them isn't available right now

Rob Pelinka We're still going through that process of what additions we'll make to our front office There will be some positive changes and we'll build things out led by me and Jeanie and with Mark's support

Daryl Morey The big move was with Jared Because we're playing well we were trying to upgrade the team and add to the team now We understand that we were looking to add now and nothing materialized

Daryl Morey The Jared McCain deal we felt that we see Jared as someone who is more likely to help a team in the future We thought that the draft picks we got will help us more in the future and could of helped us this deadline

Mavs analyst Brian Dameris gives a lengthy critique of James Harden and his patterns the last time Harden requested a trade from a team