Bill Reiter (CBS Sports) on the Russell Westbrook trade: There was a strong level of disagreement within that Lakers organization about whether or not Russ was the person they needed to pursue.

Windhorst Hes only worth 30M instead of 50M youre not getting that from LeBron James LeBron James doesnt believe in that and I dont expect him to accept that If youre the Lakers and if you force LeBron to leave hell go somewhere else and play for less money

Charania The Lakers have made it clear that they want him back but the one thing I do know is that multiple contenders are already circling If LeBron is really going to hit the open market and decide and have a true free agency he's not going to have a shortage of teams

Lakers coach JJ Redick We didn't lost because of the refs that's never the case You don't lose because of refs you lose because the other team outplays you Oklahoma City outplayed us Reporter interjects They shot 13 FTs in that stretch I'm talking about Redick A lot of them were fouls

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

Rui Hachimura cleared out when LeBron James came into the media room

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