[Bill Simmons Pod] Simmons on Lakers' moves: "I'm just dumbfounded. I just don't get it." Goldsberry: "What are we doing with Walker Kessler? We are the Los Angeles f*ing Lakers. We go after George Mikan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Shaq."
[Bill Simmons Pod] Bill on Jaylen Brown: "Where is Tatum? The guy who could squash this is the alleged leader of the team. Nothing, it's been dead silence."
[The Press Box] Brian Windhorst on LeBron calling him "weird": "He was just angry at Stephen A. I've never once said I was his best friend, I've never claimed to be a LeBron expert. I've never seen myself as anything but a journalist covering a great athlete."
[Bill Simmons Pod] Bill on trading for Giannis: "I understand it, I don't agree with it ... I'm not taking Giannis but also getting rid of Derrick White"
[Bill Simmons Pod] Doc Rivers on James Harden: "James doesn't give everybody else enough room to be great, he is the only one that can be great on his team."
[ESPN] Anunoby on the upcoming parade: "It's gonna be amazing ... they gonna be laud, they gonna set cars on fire." SVP: "I hope not." Anunoby: "Oh, yeah, maybe not cars on fire ... please, don't do that."
[Bill Simmons Pod] Bill: "This was an incredibly disappointing Wemby series. For the future of the league, face of the league, this was a catastrophe for all those storylines." Zach: "Storywise, this is the better outcome for the league."
[Bill Simmons Pod] Bill: "Single biggest choke job I've ever witnessed in an NBA game ... I kept thinking Falcons 28, Patriots 3" House: "They had 8 field goals total in the second half"
Victor Wembanyama on Karl-Anthony Towns: "Very different from previous series ... he's a good player. We need to figure it out, we need to keep working on it."