Jeff Teague says Philly is the favorite in the East because the East is kind of weak: “The second best team in the East would probably be sh*t damn near Boston, right? Like, New York is shaky, Miami shaky, after that it’s damn near Boston is the second best team in the East and I don’t know if we truly believe in Boston. I mean, JT played good tonight beat the sh*t out the Bulls, I don’t know the East kind of weak, man.”

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on LeBron’s handshakes with his teammates: “Bron got a handshake with everybody. Dean Wade mean business suit and tie. The Joel one is crazy. Like I don’t know what that was about. They just came up with it. The ask me this question in a interview and it was like how do he remember all these handshakes, I was like that’s one question you have to ask him only handshake I got to remember is mines, so I don’t know how he does it.”

Anthony Edwards and LaMelo were HYPED when the Timberwolves got Jonathan Kuminga: “Did you see what happened? The wolves got Jonathan Kuminga, B*TCH! — Aye, it’s championship n****. They say Ant and Melo, it’s gonna be hard to figure out! We gonna show you n****. We gonna show how you put a dark skin n****, and a light skin n**** and you mash them together, you get a Oreo b*tch!” (piped.video/T1DCI1BuK3Y?is=2y-s…)

LeBron on playing for the Sixers: "So far so great. The organization is unbelievable.... I think every day, every week, every month, i'll continue to get better and better. My body will continue to ramp up and the play will get better"

Channing Frye says Luka Doncic WILL NOT win a championship: “I love Luka. I just don’t think the way he plays basketball is going to win a championship. I think Luka is a lot like James Harden. Both of those guys are amazing but their usage rate is not equating to championships. Who plays like that?”

Nick Young says Memphis Grizzlies became a better team without Ja Morant: “Just because I don’t like this Ja he’s broking I feel like, you know? The media done broke him. I love the shoes , I love he’s giving off but I like throwing the grenade Ja bring him back, sh*t. Fu*k trying to buy in be Ja we need you to go out there and get 20. Dame is 36, 37 I’m still in my 20s, my shoes sell more than Dame’s I’m in Nike in Portland. It feel like he’s trying to fit in what the people want.”

Gilbert Arenas says it’s sad with all these injuries they haven’t came to their senses, how about this fu*k a doctor: “Fu*k a doctor because that doctor is a regular human being, right? He’s normal. Athletes are very different they need different training. You guys are having soft tissue, pulls, tears. There’s a reason, you’re not jumping no higher than nobody did before you, you’re not running faster did before. So we’re taking why you are getting injured? And you want to blame the shoes motherfu*kers wore chucks and sandals back then, right? The difference is they trained like their sport.”

Gilbert Arenas says if Cam Boozer can lead his team to the playoffs you have to give him rookie of the year award: “Winning usually shouldn’t be factored into the rookie of the year because those guys are on a bottom feeding teams, now if this team is a bottom feeding team and he has them in the playoffs you actually have to consider you know, his presence and moving the needle for them because it’s all about where was the prediction of this team? And your impact helping them get to the playoffs.”

Kendrick Perkins gives a shout-out to Yaxel Lendeborg for how he’s playing in his rookie season: “Because after his little back and forth with Luka, his last three games, he right at averaging like 27 almost 28 a game as a rookie his last three games. The thing that impresses me the most is that they’re not sitting up here. It’s not the old Golden State system, right? Where it’s like are we going to run all these actions? You still run a lot of actions because you got Steph, but he’s not waiting on people on like to pass him the ball on stand still threes or his points are coming. He’s initiating the fu*king offense and like breaking people down. When Steph goes out the game, the ball is in his hands and I’m sitting up here saying, “Oh, this motherfu*ker is really good.”

Brian Windhorst DOUBLES DOWN on his Cooper Flagg and LeBron comparison: “In my view Cooper is better at defense than LeBron was at the same age. I don’t even think it’s debatable. There were defensive plays LeBron made at that age. He was a defensive playmaker. I think Coopers technique on offense in some ways is better than LeBrons”

Kendrick Perkins says the 76ers are going to the NBA finals: “The 76ers are going to the NBA finals. — They have something that no other team in the NBA has. They got 4 go to guys who can go close out a game”

Joe Johnson on Cam Boozer getting his first triple-double: “He’s been a winner his whole career, bro. I’m talking about from high school to AAU to Duke he’s been a winner. He plays the game the right way, man. We talking about from your power forward. You get 12 assists, 12 rebounds, 18 points. Come on, man.”

Demarcus Cousins says with everything going on in Minnesota with Anthony Edwards and how much time he’s going to miss they should trade Rudy Gobert for Anthony Davis: “Because Rudy looking crazy he’s shooting like 23% at the rim or something like that. If they don’t want to extend AD they might as well get Rudy. It opens up for the young guy AJ. I think it will be better for Minnesota all around they kinda got that other go to guy while Anthony is out to go along with LaMelo I think it works for both teams.”

Gilbert Arenas says the Warriors are a**, the fact that you have a rookie shooting 20 times a game means your team is not good: “Right now, the only offense they really have that seems consistent is obviously Steph and Yaxel the rest of the team they’re, I’m sorry they’re just not good, right? They’re just not there, right? Don’t matter how you want to spin it and look they’re just not there.”

Richard Jefferson tells a story of his first introduction to Jeff Teague: “I’ve been in the Western Conference for a few years this motherfu*ker they go under and he hits the three and he looks over at our bench, “Yeah, this ain’t last year motherfu*ker’s you better not go over.” He said it I don’t know Jeff and I’m looking at them like what’s that about? They like I don’t know, we was just going under and I was like, “Damn he really looking at us like that? Okay.” He looked at our bench and that was a thing we was a bunch of reckless idiots you got Shump, Me, Channing we just over there waiting to talk some sh*t then hide behind Bron and Kyrie.”

Richard Jefferson says the 2016 Cavs vs Warriors Christmas Day game was the best regular season game ever: “Truth be told nothing but respect for the Golden State boys and KD and what they did. But ultimately you knew if they figured it out there wasn’t going to be any chance. So for us to get them on Christmas Day we was like our chance to even prove it to ourselves, right? They basically took Harrison Barnes off with all due respect to HB and added one of the 10 greatest players of all-time in his prime. So you’re looking at this, we are battling toe to toe you know, we had some dunks it probably was the best regular season game I could ever remember.”

Draymond Green says he don’t see OKC competing for a championship this year after losing their second best player and best defender: “For them to lose two starters in onr night is absolutely insane. So I think the answer to that would be we saw that last year with JDub missed most of the year. They were still a really good team in the regular season as you see they just beat Phoenix a couple nights ago right after losing those guys. They’re a well oiled machine. So they’re still going to be one of the better teams in the NBA. However, when you get to the playoffs in certain levels of the playoffs, that’s when things like this get exposed.”

Jeff Teague says Tyrese Maxey will be in the MVP race this year: “We always talk about Luka, we talk about AE as a potential MVP candidate. I’m like, damn the Sixers got a really good team, Maxey the best player on the team he probably going to average 28 you think he could be in the MVP race? He shoot 20 shots a game still we thought that would go down, nope….. AE is out he’s going to be out of the MVP race it’s only really Luka, Shai, Wemby and probably Tyrese Maxey now.”

Carmelo Anthony says Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball remind him of him and Allen Iverson: “Like watching it was like just the style of play and the confidence and the fun, you know, forget the wins and losses, it’s like to be able to go out there with somebody who you respect and at that time sh*t we was looking up to A.I so it’s like to be able to have that on one side and the other side when I watched Minnesota like it felt like that the first couple games.”