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Jared McCain on Victor Wembanyama: I was going to ask for Wemby's jersey, but like now that he sent a hit on me, I can’t. Like, I don't know if I… Friend: That's got to be the thumbnail for the video. Wemby sent a hit on me and… McCain: Wemby tried to kill me… Gone wrong.
Justin Martinez: Sam Presti on what he saw in Jared McCain: "I've followed Jared since he was in high school and have always thought very highly of him. Just his makeup and his approach and his game, I've always felt like he's a guy who contributes to winning. ... He had the right mindset to walk into a team like ours. ... I'm looking forward to a full summer with him, a full training camp with him, and really seeing how he accents our full team."
Andre Drummond: "I am very happy for Jared McCain. I wish we kept him, obviously, but I think he went to a good situation, a team that is going to help him develop and help him grow. I love the kid to death. Very, very good kid."
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Brandon Rahbar: Chet Holmgren was asked about Jared McCain. "How many did he shoot?" He was told it was 19 shots. "19 of em? Atta boy."
Joel Lorenzi: Mitch Johnson waves the white flag. Thunder are gonna take Game 5 and a 3-2 series lead. Massive game from the reserves, basically the inverse of last game all around. Chet’s best game of the series. Caruso and McCain were huge. Probably Wemby’s least impactful game of the series
Brandon Rahbar: Jared McCain tonight 20 PTS 3-8 3PT 3 REB “Sold high.”
Nestled inside Jared McCain’s travel bag is a relatively new copy of W. Timothy Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Tennis.” The old copy McCain bought in high school unraveled last year, marked by spills and wear. But he salvaged a memento. A tattered fragment of Page 21, which McCain calls “the rose analogy,” lives inside the new off-white pages. The black ink has faded from the original, yellowed scrap. One handwritten word remains legible in the margins: Rose.
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McCain has long memorized this passage, but he returns to the excerpt every game anyway: “When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as ‘rootless and stemless.’ … The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”
More than the page itself, the routine summons the part of his conscience that survives on muscle memory and suffocates uncertainty. McCain, in the biggest game of his life, played carefree. “I feel like I’ve played in big games, whether it’s in high school or Duke — definitely not the Western Conference finals — but being able to just take that confidence and be fearless, I love this so much,” McCain said after scoring a playoff career-high 24 points. “I love what my life is right now. Being able to play and contribute at this level, I never want to take it for granted. … I think that’s why I can go in there and just be fearless and trust myself.”
Michael Scotto: Jared McCain on Daryl Morey trading him: “It’s never to prove anybody wrong. I try to keep a positive outlook. I like proving my support system right. Daryl’s still the guy that drafted me, so I’ll always have love for him for that. He believed in me enough to take me at No. 16.”
Jared McCain on Daryl Morey trading him: “It’s never to prove anybody wrong. I try to keep a positive outlook. I like proving my support system right. Daryl’s still the guy that drafted me, so I’ll always have love for him for that. He believed in me enough to take me at No. 16.” pic.twitter.com/nZdfbwUOE0
— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) May 23, 2026
StatMuse: Fun Fact: Jared McCain has scored more points in the Conference Finals than the last six 76ers lottery picks combined. Eddie Johnson: The King of Analytics, couldn’t use this guy in Philly.
