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Heat Central: Bobby Portis says he was in Miami when he found out he got traded to the Heat: “Some guys get drafted to their favorite team or guys sign with their favorite team. I haven’t played with my favorite team yet. So getting a chance to get traded to my favorite team was like surreal to me. I was in Miami too when I got traded to Miami. That was fire. — We was outside chillin for like 10-15 minutes. I walk into the house and the GM is calling me. Right when I picked the phone up the whole house start screaming. It was crazy. That whole day I had fans telling me it was going to happen”
Heat Central: Bobby Portis on getting traded with Giannis to the Miami Heat: “It’s fun being able to still play with Giannis. We have a great relationship on and off the court. It’s kind of cool going to a new situation with somebody that you’re super familiar with. I think that’ll make my transition real smooth. — I rock with Gianni. Gianni a good dude. He always showed love to me since day 1. — I remember after we won the chip the first thing he told our GM and owner ‘We gotta sign Bobby back! We gotta sign Bobby back!’”
“I don’t think they’re looking to lock themselves in to anything, as you would say, exorbitant and long-term,” Lewis explained. “I think Sean Marks, the GM, values flexibility above almost all things, and I think a shorter deal at a lower AAV would probably give them more flexibility, and that’s probably what they would prefer.”
When Lendeborg was asked whether he had heard from Steph Curry, Draymond Green, or any of the other Warriors veterans since being drafted, he said, “Yeah. Steph actually welcomed both of us in the group chat, the night of the draft. when [Lajae Jones] got drafted [and] I got drafted. “And I reached out to [Curry] yesterday, and I asked him a quick question. And then I reached out to Draymond, as well. Haven’t gotten that response back yet from Draymond yet,” Lendeborg added with a laugh. This prompted Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy Jr. to say, “Don’t worry. He doesn’t respond to me, either.”
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Heat Central: Brian Windhorst says Norman Powell will be GONE, unless he takes a massive pay cut: “They’re gonna lose their All Star, Norman Powell. Unless he takes a crazy discount. He’s gonna be gone… Andy Ellisburg their GM, is superior at his job. Erik Spoelstra, their developmental staff, I’m betting on the Heat. Just not in 2026-2027”
“My ideal operation, like a lot of my other businesses, it’s the same thing: Give me a plan, let’s put together a plan, let’s follow the plan, and I’ll support the plan,” he said. “It’s the same thing with the hockey team. And if you go off plan, come back to me and we’ll talk about it. Once Leon came, he told me in advance what he was going to do and I’d always ask, what can I do to help you? You plan it. I’ll fund it.” Many of Rose’s deals, he simply nodded. Others, he had to be convinced — “Mostly,” he said, “I was always somewhere in the middle.” But he always landed on the side of trusting a GM who’d earned it unconditionally. It has made all the difference for the Knicks. And for Dolan.
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NBA Base: An anonymous NBA GM believes LaMelo Ball should be suspended for tripping Bam Adebayo in Tuesday’s Play-In game, per @TimBontemps "I had a GM text me tonight and ask, because they saw the play later, 'This guy's got to get suspended, right?"
Dennis Schroeder: In my second year, I was close to going into the GM’s office and telling them they should trade me, because I wasn’t satisfied with my playing time and with the fact that they had me sitting on the bench. The year before that—or rather, the summer before that—I really wasn’t in Germany at all and had only been grinding, to show people that I really wanted to play and was ready to play. And then I got angry. Darvin Ham took me into his office. He had actually ordered soup for himself, then split the soup, put it down, and then sat down and said, ‘Hey, what’s going on with you, actually?’ And then he gave me a quote—and we’d probably have to bleep it, because I don’t want kids seeing that I’m cursing and using swear words—but he said, ‘You have to go through the shit to get to the good.’
95.7 The Game: Steve Kerr told @WillardAndDibs that Kristaps Porzingis doesn't actually suffer from POTS: "After the trade...I called Onsi Saleh, Atlanta's GM, and I asked, 'Is this POTS story real?' He said, 'It's actually not POTS.' So that was some misinformation that was out there."
