![]() If, in this situation, you lost all respect for a kid in his early 20’s, so be it. He basically told KP it was mostly because of “cap space” he told reporters he didn’t know whether KP was a max level player and he told Dolan that he was trying to protect the team from having an injured max player. OK, his call, but he was never clear or consistent about it with KP. With the Mills FO, he wanted a max extension (so I’m sure he and his brother communicated that they thought he was a star, like with any other player seeking max), and wanted to know where he stood (again, like any other young player). KP6 NEVER, not once, indicated that he wanted to be the man or anything like it. Mills was a congenital liar, and the other two went along with the nonsense. In the Mills era, misinformation was the rule. He let it fester, and seemed to enjoy it. Instead, Jackson, as usual, made it all about him, and instead of talking with KP, chose to impose his standard passive-aggressive mind games on him. If Jackson was half as wise as he always telling people, or even a mature adult, he would have sat KP down, looked him the eye and made him own his mistake – and then moved forward. ![]() When Melo purported to take KP under his wing as his successor, of course Melo was going to have outsized influence with KP. Melo was a made man in the NBA community. KP was a 20 year old kid from Latvia trying to find his way within the NBA community and culture. But it was a single instance, and didn’t need to begin a strained relationship with the FO. KP did follow Melo down a dark road, and he should have been made to own that more than he was. Raptors center Jakob Poeltl spoke to Oren Weisfeld of Yahoo Sports Canada about his first stint in Toronto, the experience of watching the team win a title without him in 2019, and what it’s been like to rejoin the franchise several years later.So I knew that if I want to win, you’re going to have to play with somebody… It was never an issue for me.” “I never felt that way because today’s league is, other than Jokic and Embiid, it’s a guard league. “Maybe it was falsely pushed,” Porzingis said of the old narrative, according to Stefan Bondy of The New York Post. Rumors surfaced during his time with the Knicks that Kristaps Porzingis would be unhappy if he wasn’t treated as the “face of the franchise,” but the Celtics big man is satisfied with being a secondary option in Boston and says he was never focused on being the go-to guy.We are a little short on that and it becomes more important in the playoffs as well.” As Stein notes, it’s perhaps no surprise, based on that description, that Raptors forward OG Anunoby “keeps coming up” as a potential 76ers target. … The other thing would be we probably need them to have a bit of play-making - sort of connector, ball-movement aspects. ![]() “As you get into the playoffs, it gets very hard for your top guys to be elite one way. “I would say first off, they need to be pretty solid on both ends,” Morey said, per Marc Stein at Substack.
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