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“He willingly in the last 30, 40 games of the season took a back seat and now we need you. We're calling on you again to summon everything that you have left in your Lebron number one option tank, even if it might just be playing bully ball in the post and occasionally going out on a fast break. And he's like, yeah, I'll do it. How many minutes? You need 38 tonight in game one? I'll give you 38.”

“They already didn't extend hero and that just continues to be an on-going thing. Jovich didn't pop. Ware is good, but the Ware Bam fit is always going to be... Hawkins is fine. Yakutunis look good, but this core is not winning you anything. They have to know that now. There's no hope for it.”

“Do you know how hard it is to lose an NBA game? Where you take 93 shots and the other team takes 66 shots. You take the same number of free throws... The other team takes 19 three-pointers total in the year of our basketball gods, 2026 And you get 21 offensive rebounds and you lose by nine. That is mathematically improbable and congratulations to the Houston Rockets for pulling it off.”

“Wemby just hasn't edged him. He really just seems like he wants to destroy everybody. It's a pretty great quality for the guy we're pinning our future of the league hopes on. Very Jordan, Kobe. Everyone is my enemy. I'm not here to make friends. I really want to embarrass whoever I'm playing against. You can feel it tonight.”

“Detroit, all the things they do to exert their will and their physicality on everybody else don't work as well against Orlando because Orlando is as big and strong and nasty as the Pistons are. I mean, Detroit, you know, the long layoff, Cade coming back from the collapsed lung, Orlando looked awesome against Charlotte in the last playoff game... super impressive start by them.”

“This is a guy who just bought the team, Tom Dundon, who spent $4.25 billion on it, and I guess spent all his money on the team, and now wants to cut back on everything else. It's a pretty weird way to start your new ownership. I will say that. Today, the big story was that he didn't pay for the two-way guys to go to the game.”

“I watched it on social media. And what I saw was a person who was confused and didn't have a lot of conviction in his choice. And I was a little embarrassed by it. I was like, I'm doing gymnastics not to pick Jokic, who is the best player in the league and is the most valuable to his team player in the league... I voted for Joker. I changed my pick.”

“That OKC's defense just reminded you that as great as they are in the regular season, they hit the frenzy switch when the playoffs start. And it just is like, what are we even supposed to do? And when you get into that mode, what you end up doing is like, I guess still Brooks is going to take 22 shots. And most of them are going to be like contested, leaning twos on the pick and roll, which is not what you want.”