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“So here, I’ll tell you what I’ve known here. I’ve known what it is to be an NBA player, what it is to make it to the NBA. I’ve learned what it is to be an all-star player. I’ve learned how to be a champion. I’ve learned how to be an MVP. I’ve learned how to be a father. I got married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And also, legally, from the courthouse. And also, I’ve had my kids here. My father is buried here. So tell me you, when I open the passport of my kids and it says born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my dad is buried here, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “So people have the audacity to come tell me and say ‘this guy really doesn’t love Milwaukee.’ I don’t love Milwaukee? Not the people that know. The people of the city know how much I love them. This city has let me be myself, let me be father, have let me [be] a husband, have let me be my own, true, self.
NBA insider Marc Stein reported on the latest episode of the ALL NBA Podcast that the Charlotte Hornets, Brooklyn Nets and Utah Jazz are among the teams actively exploring minor trades as the deadline nears. According to Stein, the focus for these franchises is roster flexibility rather than pursuing major names. “Charlotte, Brooklyn, and Utah. Those are three teams that are all very willing to take up and do the kinds of trades that you suggested,” Stein said. “The Nuggets have to make a move like that. If the Raptors don’t make a big move they still have to shed some salary to get under the tax. You've got a variety of teams that want to create roster room so they can convert two way players to standard contracts.”
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Shams Charania: The Jazz make a major swing for Jackson and team him with Lauri Markkanen, Keyonte George, Walker Kessler and more. The move signals a full rebuild for the Grizzlies around its promising young core and now as many future first-round picks as any team in the NBA.
Draymond Green: I know everyone is looking for a response to Dillon Brooks’ comments about podcast. He was speaking on me and Paul George doing podcasting. He said they're not good at basketball, so focus on hoops. I don't really feel the need to get in back and forth. If I was Dillon Brooks I wouldn't have too much love for this podcast either, being how he was annihilated on this podcast, possibly aided in him being traded away from the Memphis Grizzlies where he ultimately said he really enjoyed playing there. So I get it. I completely get it. And yeah he said we talk too much on our podcast, but he's been kind of going on other people's streams and just like talking too much, if you will. I found it funny. I thought it was cute like those guys talk too much on those podcast. There are some people that you can go talk to that about. You say they're not good at basketball. When I started this podcast, what made guys really comfortable with having these podcast was because I was an All-Star and an NBA champion in the same year. We heard that that noise before.
Gilbert Arenas: The G League is going to be in trouble. Why would an NBA prospect go to the G League when they can go to college? G League is paying me 49,000. College is paying me a million, million and a half, 500,000. So, if I got eligibility, I'm going to search for it and I'm going to try to get it instead of playing the G League for $49,000.
Gilbert Arenas: Every player, if you know you're going to be done within two years, you should start cutting your losses to try to get back to as close as normal as possible, because if you don't have a job right after that, it's all negative income. When we were talking about hard bills, you're talking about light, cars, insurance, baby mamas, right? Paying your folks, paying their house, paying their cars, right? So some of y'all can leave and your hard bills 100,000, 150, 200, 300, hard bills. You remember like when you're playing in the NBA you're collecting bills. Anthony Davis, the house he just sold, $39 million. What you think that water bill is? That light bill, the grass bill, right? He's spending $45,000 probably a month just to upkeep it. Just that house, not the cars in that house, not family, friends, not other houses. So it's the hard bills that get us at the end. And it normally takes an athlete two years to adjust to his new life, because the embarrassment of selling sh*t cuz you don't want people to think you're broke. So you hold on to sh*t that you don't supposed to and going broke. And that happens a lot.
Marc Stein: NBA commissioner Adam Silver has named Toronto’s Darko Rajaković as head coach for Team World in next weekend’s All-Star Game. Detroit’s J.B. Bickerstaff and San Antonio’s Mitch Johnson will coach the two USA teams. The full roster breakdown will be announced later today.
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Jake Fischer: Right now, I've definitely gotten no indication that the Lakers consider themselves a current player for Giannis. I think the Lakers have a very realistic and pragmatic understanding of where they fall in the general NBA trade market landscape right now.
According to NBA insider Jake Fischer, "Golden State is aware of recent rumblings that Antetokounmpo can't be assumed to be as eager as he was once perceived to be to relocate to Stephen Curry's town and team." Fischer added that some "suspect Antetokounmpo could be turned off by" the prospect of playing on an older team, as well as "facing the same sort of criticism" Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant received when he left Oklahoma City for Golden State in 2016. Fischer noted that one source said the one-time champion "wants to win," but also cares "about the arc of his professional story."
Giannis Antetokounmpo will be the most sought-after player at Thursday’s NBA trade deadline. But sources told The Post that — contrary to reports — the Nets have not called Milwaukee about the Greek superstar. For years, Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks hoarded assets in case Antetokounmpo ever decided he wanted to leave Milwaukee and was made available.
NBA Insider Jake Fischer said during a livestream Monday “the Lakers are ready to move on from LeBron James and I think LeBron James is ready to move on from the Lakers as well.” Fischer reported he believes the divorce will happen in June. “That’s kind of the foregone sentiment in Los Angeles right now about what’s to come this summer,” Fischer said.