This podcast was pure comedy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-athletic-nba-show/id1358187061?i=1000662386587
At about the 20 minute mark
"Very hard to pull off trades. These GMs want to prove how smart they are to impress their owners…[These fans] don't understand how hard it is and how illogical some of the parties on the other side are"
by notmyusername77
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Lol somehow Brad Stevens, Rob Pelinka, and early career Bob Myers didn’t have this problem 😂
Why do I get this feeling he’s talking about Danny Ainge?
basically—>
Go ahead Ainge, be mid, get the 13th pick and lose it OKC. BIG BRAIN idea
Oh us fans understand Joe – I know you didn’t mean it like that but we 100% know that Ainge is a ****
That part wasn’t even in the top 5 funniest parts of this podcast, believe it or not.
Some of the other bangers:
> “Well, you’re assuming that by trading all of your emerging young players, potentially young stars, that you are going to be better. We run analytical models on all that stuff. We will make a deal that makes us better.
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> We look at short term and intermediate term and to some extent long term as well. But that’s a factor. But I can just tell you, I mean, we run those.
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> **We have an incredibly complex models these guys run about how good we will be. And it’s not everything what the press writes all the time or what people say in the internet blogs. So we’re very aware of that.**
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> And you can’t make a trade that makes you worse and then expect to be better.”
> “I don’t care what people think happened or didn’t happen. [Klay] will always be welcome in my life.
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> I hope he feels the same. I’m honestly, I get a little teary-eyed about it. **I hope we’re going to be friends forever.**”
Speaking about the 2022 championship:
> “And the way Steph and others played, [like] Wiggins, it was, and **I actually had a really bad injury at the time, worst I’ve ever had. I had a bad back. I couldn’t even sit. It was very difficult.** But it was so unbelievably rewarding that it might go down in some ways as the most important for me. However, the most important one really, in actuality, is the next one.”
Prolly talking bout the clippers too, who coulda had 2 post Steph picks, Moody and fan favorite Paul but got too hung up on Kuminga, and Paul George just bounced.
😂😂😂
on god! Danny Ainge is putting together a prime Giannis or Jokic package for Lauri like come on man!
One of the best interviews in basketball right now.
Likely talking about clippers and not ainge. Ainge doesn’t need to impress Ryan smith. Smith is just happy he was able to land ainge.
He and his sons should not be making basketball decisions. The warriors, like every other successful sport organization, were at their best when the owner stood back and supported and let actual basketball people to basketball decisions.
“You either trade us Podz and Moody and all picks and pick swaps you can, by rule, trade, and maybe we’ll give you a borderline all star who’s about to be paid a max.
Um… no?
“These GMs don’t want to be fleeced” – I mean you can pull off trades pretty easily if you’re willing to overpay…
Ainge is a b!tch.
Joey lightyears has the nerve to say this?
This comes off as entitled lmao. I mean seriously the jazz since the beginning of time have made it abundantly clear that they don’t want to trade Lauri and it’s going to take A LOT to trade him. The Milan bridges trade doesn’t help either.
I actually really enjoy Lacobs interviews, he’s surprisingly candid. He does come of as arrogant occasionally but I’ve never doubted his goal to bring winning basketball to the bay regardless of the cost. He’s shown hes willing to spend money and take risks throughout his ownership tenure.
All he is saying here is that we are looking to make moves but we’re not gonna gut our team to get some fringe all star that may or may not even make our team any better…and fuck Danny Ainge.
‘We have an incredibly complex models these guys run about how good we will be’. I wonder what the models said about James Wiseman… lol.