Danny Ainge: "There's always risk in making deals. We're not afraid of risk. We made a risk by trading for Kyrie. No matter what happens with Kyrie, I'll never regret that. Just move on to the next deal."

Austin Ainge in June 2025 on manipulating draft lottery odds You won't see that this year

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

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

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

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

SiriusXM NBA Radio Donovan Mitchells thoughts on the rumors that LeBron could finish his career in Cleveland As a Bron fan to be able to be a teammate would obviously be special But thats something not in my control I control what we got here Theres always going to be reports Its natural