Amin On cheap owners the former Suns owner wanted to cut the roster to only the 7-8 guys Dantoni played asked why coaches couldn't fill in for 5 on 5 practice Refused 100k to upgrade from Best Buy hard drives to an enterprise server Thinks it was a factor in why Aldridge chose the Spurs in FA

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

ESPN Windhorst When the Allen estate sold the team they did a very short lease Leases are usually 15-20 years they did a 5 year lease And theres almost no protection in the lease for the Blazers to leave Tom Dundon isnt interested in giving any money for this renovation It's a messy one

Daniel Marks Most teams have a full bench of playerscoaches and an additional back row with coachesstaff Portland has 1 row with 7 empty seats I took a quick look at all the non-lottery-pick teams this year and it's true displays the philosophy of the new owner Tom Dundon

Draymond says he was surprised at the Reaves contract I didn't expect the Lakers to go so high On a team where you had Austin Luka and LeBron the team didn't fare as well as one would hope I thought Lakers would stand pat and negotiate it down Austin had some struggles in the playoffs

Gilbert arenas says to all the people that are saying the San Antonio spurs coach should have benched De'Aaron Fox for Dylan harper in the finals against the Knicks don't know basketball Fox was their main guy the whole season you bench him in that moment you lose him mentally

Brad Stevens on why he traded Jaylen Brown The path looked a little bit more challenging to me with 70 of our cap and such a high usage into two players and the reality in this era and in this day and age in the NBA you have to do a great job in building depth