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Channing Frye: I will say this—my understanding was that Kevin was going to be that next guy for Miami, right? Clarify 'next'—the next UD. The next guy who was keeping that locker room solid. Your 15th guy, your number one guy, your coach, your GM, your owner—they all need to be on the same page. They need to buy into what you're selling. And Kevin was bought in a thousand percent in Miami. Now, do things happen? Yes. But I think—when you’re telling somebody at that age, 'Hey, we want you here,' you’ve got to give them a call to explain like, 'Hey, here’s why you’re going here. Here’s our thought process.' Just that level of respect. It’s not like it would’ve changed anything—but the communication is what I didn’t appreciate necessarily. I think Kevin should either go to New York, Portland, or Cleveland. That’s just my three places."

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Channing Frye: "So now you’re in L.A.—and I had a quick little hop and a jump in L.A.—and let me tell you: players fall in love with being famous more than winning in L.A. Okay? So, if you don’t have that motor, that sickness to be great in a place like L.A., you’re going to start thinking, 'Well, it wasn’t my fault' or 'It was someone else.' You stop grinding. Then you’re playing with Luka, and you’re playing with Bron, and now you’re even more famous—for doing nothing. You could literally do nothing and still be famous."

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NBA TV will offer nightly studio coverage of the NBA Finals. GameTime Live at the Finals will feature analysts such as Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenny Smith of TNT’s iconic Inside the NBA, as well as Grant Hill, Isiah Thomas, Candace Parker, Steve Smith, Brendan Haywood, and Channing Frye.

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Channing Frye: And then two, Bronny had his heart issue, and he was at the Mayo Clinic that same week. So to be like, ‘Oh, why weren’t you at D-Wade’s thing?’ Well, he was in the hospital with his son getting heart surgery. So let’s just please get your facts right so that we can continue talking about this and not basketball.

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Channing Frye: I genuinely—and everyone who works for the NBA genuinely—wants the Knicks to be good and to go far in the playoffs. You have to be out of your damn mind to just look at stats and think, "Oh, this is normal," to play your starters an average of 37–38 minutes and think that they are going to be healthy and energetic at the end of the year. You have to relieve your starters so that they can play at a certain level of basketball—that is Knicks basketball. My point was, literally, because the Knicks are good, I don't want to see them get injured. My perspective is coming from a player who has played with players who have been on Thibs' teams, where I said, "Damn, if you're number eight, you ain't getting no run."

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Jamal Crawford: I think Channing was obviously giving this generation props—as they should get—but I didn't agree with why he thought that nostalgia was killing this generation and why this game is hated on right now. It's not about that. It's things that are going on that are not cool—let's just call it what it is. Like the load management thing. I said 15 years ago: If we're going to load manage, load manage in practice. Let these dudes play. We don't want to see—if we buy tickets months in advance—that they're not playing. The game looks the same, Channing. It's plug-and-play in most places. 90% of the league looks the same, so the creativity is kind of gone. I'm not knocking the players, but as we all know, it's a copycat league. So with that, there's going to be, 'Oh, if they're successful doing it, we're going to try to copy.'

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Jamal Crawford: Certain guys—the ones who stand out—LeBron, Steph, Jokic, Luka—all these dudes stand out because they don’t look like everybody else. They're not falling into the trap of, 'Our teams have to play this way for us to be successful.' They're not doing that. So I hear what you were saying, but I didn't agree, because you're basically using the fact that we're so caught up in the old eras that we're not appreciating this new era—and to me, that's false."

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Kevin Durant: You and Channing are saying some real shit // Dime Dropper: You know what killed the NBA more than “nostalgia”? Constant compare culture. We can’t say a player now is great, we have to compare them to a predecessor. In which it becomes subjective & ppl can’t accept the other sides opinion so then they end up hating that player. Medias fault entirely

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Channing Frye: Nostalgia is killing the NBA. The '90s basketball era with Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant was not as clean as you think. Y'all forget that Jordan left the league for two years. Y'all forget that Kobe—rest in peace—quit on his team in the playoffs and refused to shoot the basketball. So all this talk about Kobe, Jordan—"Oh, he's not this, he's not that"—it's propaganda. Every great player, whether it's Ant, Wemby, LeBron, Steph—whoever—gets compared to players from 40 years ago. But the rules weren’t even the same back then! You're not really watching help-side defense. Who's doing what? What are these rules? Nobody celebrates the new generation of players. So why would anyone want to be the face of the league when every network constantly criticizes them for not being like someone from 40 years ago? It’s ridiculous. It’s unfair. LeBron is one of the greatest players ever. Stephen Curry is one of the greatest players ever. Giannis is one of the greatest. Jokic—same thing. Yet we just keep talking about Michael Jordan.

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Channing Frye: Everyone hated me for the first 2 months lol. Jack: For the chemistry folks, I will remind you of this trade from the championship season. That Cavaliers locker room was devastated after they traded Anderson Varejao.

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Amid yet another report of how the situation played out ahead of Jimmy Butler’s current suspension, agent Bernie Lee took to social media Saturday to clear up what had become an exaggerated misconception. In the wake of a podcast when former NBA center Channing Frye said Butler made the Heat wait two hours on the tarmac on Jan. 22 for the team’s flight to Milwaukee, Lee posted a flight alert of the Heat team plane actually departing 15 ahead of schedule that day.

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Channing Frye: I’m watching the Blazer game and it is gross watching a certain player absolutely FUCK OFF his minutes is unreal. Please stop playing this person Trailblazers

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Channing Frye on guarding Shaq: "Imagine trying to foul a tree moving like a cat. He said to me 'Okay good game, little frye, we gotta win this now.'"

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NBA TV: “I think it’s a death sentence. I think he’s jumping on a grenade. … As a first-year coach, I wouldn’t recommend that job for anybody.” @ChanningFrye on JJ Redick being “considered favorite” to become the new head coach of the Lakers

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