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[Highlight] Kenny Smith: "Hakeem Olajuwon used to say this to me all the time..." Charles Barkley: "Kenny, bring me some water?"

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[Reyes] Goran Dragic on the emotions we see from Luka Doncic: “You know, all the Balkans, we all are a little bit feisty… sometimes when we don't play good we get a little bit crazy, but that's natural.”

[Neubeck] Eagles center Jason Kelce on the Ben Simmons situation: "Everybody can bitch and complain about how tough this city is to play in. Just play better man, this city will love you."

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[Kirschner] Trae Young: “I don’t think we get the respect we deserve. I watch a lot of TV. I see people mentioning all of the acquisitions everyone is getting. No one is mentioning us. The Milwaukee-Brooklyn game, they mentioned how they were in the Eastern Finals. It was just mind blowing.”

[Highlight] Lu Dort 'dies' after taking some contact from Donovan Mitchell

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Reporter: “How happy were you with…” Tom Thibodeau: “I'm never happy.”

[Hofmann] Joel Embiid on last night’s team dinner: “That’s an evolution for me because when I used to go on the road I liked to stay in my room and play video games.” “Anything I can do, I'm gonna be willing to do it. Knowing about each other’s lives, I think that goes a long way.”

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[Hughes] Montrezl Harrell denies trash-talking Drake: “We even talked after the game. It was a cool conversation, but it turned left when the coach started chiming in behind the bench… I don’t need all of Toronto on my bumper now. Don’t get on my Instagram now. Me and Drake are cool, y’all.”

[Olson] Chris Paul on sweep of Denver last year: "The biggest advice I give to any of these guys (is) what happens in our league is what have you done for me lately. Don't nobody give a damn about last year's playoffs or what's going on. You gotta do it over and over again in this league."

[Scotto] I was checking in with league executives for their thoughts on the Ayton situation. The first executive said to me, “That owner (Robert Sarver) is cheap, and he’ll get killed for it again. He finally had some goodwill making the Finals, and he pulls this. The fact is the kid earned it.”

[Terada] Jaylen Brown said he had some mild symptoms after getting COVID-19. Said the most concerning was his breathing. Said he had to really focus to his breathing to get back to normal.

[Smith] Ime Udoka says Jaylen Brown will play tonight for the Boston Celtics in the season opener at the New York Knicks.

[Kyle Kuzma] posts and deletes IG story about the Lakers going 0-7 without Kuzma.

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[Vardon] LaMelo Ball compared his mindset as a player to those who took the court during Jordan’s dominance in the 80s & 90s: “I feel like I still got that mentality that they had back in the day. Even with the switching teams & stuff, they never used to do that. You go to one team, you stay there.”

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[Chiang] P.J. Tucker on not ending up back with the Bucks: “I was pretty surprised. You win a championship and you’re part of winning something special like that, you would expect that… You watch role guys in series in the past, usually those guys go back.”

[Neubeck] Doc Rivers on Ben Simmons: “I just thought he was a distraction today, he didn’t want to do what everyone else is doing.”

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[Neubeck] Ben Simmons is not talking today, I’m told, and was suspended due to an event that happened at practice today

[Schiffer] Asked about the inability to extend James Harden last night, Steve Nash says he hasn’t thought much on it because Harden loves it in Brooklyn.

Charles Barkley on Kyrie: “Everybody should get vaccinated. Kyrie Irving is going to make $17 million sitting at home. He's getting his cake & eating it too… I'm just disappointed because when you're on a team, you have to make sacrifices. And to me, getting a vaccine is a no-brainer sacrifice.”

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[Olson] Asked Monty Williams about the Cardinals' COVID-19 outbreak: "This thing is real. I've had family members affected by it. Early on I lost a niece. I'm on my kids about their masks in school. It's a health issue. It's not politics, it's a health issue. We gotta stay on top of it."

Giannis Antetokounmpo: “I'm not competitive, guуs… I said, I want my ring to be bigger than my brothеr's. I'm joking. Whеn Kostas, my brothеr, showеd me his ring it was hugе. It was like an AirPоd casе. Sо I said at least, уou know, уou guуs don't sell us shоrt. Give us a big ring alsо.”

[Murdосk] Draymоnd Green: “All thеse shоws that yоu turn оn, they’re abоut basketball, but they’rе nоt rеally abоut basketball. It bothеrs mе when I can’t turn оn a TV shоw and lеarn abоut the gamе of baskеtball. The оnly thing I can lеarn is that Bеn Simmоns dоn’t want tо play for the 76еrs.”

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[Smith] -Sold their G League team -Brought only one extra player to camp -Regularly have only one Two-Way player -Have held a hardline on contract negotiations many times You own a team, you spend money how you wish. But there's a through line with the Phoenix Suns here that isn't good.

[Levick] Tyrese Maxey on Ben Simmons: “Friendships are bigger than basketball. ... Ben’s been a friend since before I got drafted.”

[Goodwill] Adam Silver on Kyrie Irving’s vaccination status disqualifying him is “unfair: “It's indiscriminate in terms of who it impacts. And I think it's perfectly appropriate that NY and other cities have passed laws that require people who both work and visit arenas, to be vaccinated."

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