[Stein] The Warriors have now shifted their trade focus to acquiring Jimmy Butler, The Stein Line has learned, after abandoning the pursuit of Kevin Durant. Durant's strong reservations about a Warriors return sent them in a new direction.
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Kyrie on Luka being traded: "It is a ruthless business. We still have to acknowledge that our little Slovenian president is no longer here and we gotta adjust"
[Highlight] Fan POV of Luka liking what he sees.
[Lowe] Lots of eyes and ears around the league on the Kevin Durant situation right now.
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Kings front office has been extremely lucky. No one is talking about them losing 2 home grown all star point guards over 3 years.
[ESPN] AD on giving up his $6 million trade bonus: “Trying to help the team. Obviously you always want to get better and losing a monumental piece like Luka ... I'm just trying to do my part and help Nico and the organization on how we can continuously get better.”
[Grant Afseth] Multiple league sources have told me there is increasing belief that Kevin Durant lands with the Golden State Warriors. Plenty has to happen, but the Warriors' pursuit of this trade has been aggressive. Just figured I'd mention this as something to watch as the deadline looms.
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[Nichols] Luka is asked about some of the leaks and quotes coming out of the Mavericks' side of things right now: "At some point I knew this was going to happen, but I always take the high road." He then thanks the Dallas fans.
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Dwane Wade on the Luka Doncic trade: "First of all, I said to myself, before all the reports come out I said, no players were involved in this decision; this is billionaires' business. his was at the top...This was the owners, the billionaires deciding what they want to do.”
Anthony Edwards about the Luka trade: "At 25 they traded, probably, the best scorer in the NBA at 25. And he didn't know about it, so, it's a lot more digging somebody gotta do to find out why he got traded, because you don't just trade him at 25, he just went to the finals."
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[Post Game Thread] The Sacramento Kings (25-24) defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves (27-23), 116-114.
[Highlight] Trae Young hits the game-winner to snap the Hawks' 8-game losing skid
[MacMahon] Executives around the NBA are reportedly “furious” that the Lakers were the only team allowed to bid for Luka Dončić, per @espn_macmahon
[RunItBack] Chandler Parsons: "I'm also not buying that Jason Kidd just didn't know. ... Luka Doncic just bought a $15M house, just closed like last week in Dallas. Apparently he cried when he found out. ... Jimmy Butler's off the hook a little bit based on this move."
[Shelburne] Harrison decided early on, team sources said, that the best way to trade a player of Doncic's caliber was to pick the trade that he wanted, rather than open up the process, to avoid Doncic and his agent exerting their own leverage:
[Fischer] “The unrelenting word continues to be that Beal has no desire to bless a trade pretty much anywhere and prefers to remain in Phoenix, where his family has been settling after finally leaving the nation's capital.”
