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

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

Wolves GM Tim Connelly on Ant's feedback in potential roster moves There's been countless things we could have done When you go to your leaders like Ant and you say 'It takes get this to get that' the conviction he has in our guys is evident when he says 'No we're not trading this guy'

Mike Dunleavy says he was trying to use the full clock to hear all trade offers Joe Lacob was like 'Come on let's go ahead and pick the guy' And I said 'Joe we have time They give you five minutes' He was just getting a little anxious about us taking Yaxel I was willing to be patient

Fischer Last Tuesday I said that there were many people around the league who thought that LeBron should take a veteran minimum salary It does not sound like that is actually in the cards at all I wanna be very very clear about that after some text messages and phone calls I received

Vecenie during his live draft show The Knicks did trade 24 for 25 straight up The Lakers just move up one spot for free Charania said the Knicks are trying to trade 25 as well So I think they probably ran out of time and said to the Lakers 'Do you guys want to go We'll let you move up'

Bill Simmons Pod Bill on trading for Giannis I understand it I don't agree with it I'm not taking Giannis but also getting rid of Derrick White