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March 4, 2021 | 5:11 am EST Update
Karl-Anthony Towns: I see regression
Jon Krawczynski: KAT: “I definitely see regression. It’s on us as players. We gotta be better. We just gotta take this break and take a long look at all of ourselves and say we want to fix the problem. If we don’t want to fix the problem we’ll come out and having these losses again.”
Jon Krawczynski: KAT: “We ain’t executing, and I’m tired of looking at the box score and looking at all the numbers and shit and talking about the same thing – how we haven’t won or oh, we’ve got to do this and do that. Obviously, what we said hasn’t worked.”
Saratsis wanted Antetokounmpo to go to bed some nights believing he was delaying a decision until summer, then see how he felt in the morning about it. Other nights, the top five NBA player should go to bed believing he was signing the extension, then see how he felt in the morning. Peace of mind over money. Serenity over settling. “There was nothing we were going to go to the Bucks with and they were going to say no,” says Saratsis. “It’s not just a business decision, it’s an emotional decision. Yeah, things can change and we can ask for a trade if you want to, but for all intents and purposes this is the next few years of your career, in the prime of your career, and I want you to be happy.”
“I can tell you that honestly,” says Saratsis. “‘Oh, well Bam signed, they must know something.’ They knew nothing. And I made sure. Agents do this all the time: You leverage one guy for another. And I never do that. It’s good to have information, but I would never talk Giannis’s business with Miami, and I would never talk about Miami’s business with any other team. You don’t leverage one guy for another.”
“I don’t think people understand the kind of relationship me and my family has with Alex,” Antetokounmpo told Complex Sports via email. “He is as close to family to me as anyone that is not blood related can be.”
“The most important thing he told me is that he wanted me to be happy, and to be comfortable with my choice,” says Antetokounmpo. “We talked about every single option for months, but at the end of the day he knows me, and knows what matters the most to me and my family.”
Michael Scotto: James Harden on jersey being retired by the Rockets: “Hopefully, I did something right. Obviously, I came up short of a championship, but the work on and off the court that I put in over those past eight years was elite. I think that’s the only thing I didn’t do, a championship.”
