Hornets GM Mitch Kupchak on Kemba's comments about taking less than the supermax: "I don't know if his representatives approved of that comment, but I guess we'll find out."

Jay Williams I've talked to a couple of different players that could be Supermax this year or next year they're starting to feel a little pressure from team owners by saying 'Yo Jalen Brunson left 113 million dollars on the table What are you going to do'

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'

Sam Presti comments on what Cason Wallace said about the contract thing he praises Wallace and says there are a lot of options and different paths but it will be discussed with Wallace at the appropriate time

Charania Multiple teams are strongly pursuing LaMelo Ball and the Hornets are engaged in talks

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

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