But Russell took the Warriors’ …

But Russell took the Warriors’ immediate $117 million max offer and a chance, however brief, to learn under NBA greatness, calculating that the extra cash and gained knowledge would be worth stepping into a storm of immediate trade chatter and a fourth possible NBA relocation. “I just don’t care (about the buzz),” Russell said. “Simple as that. I just don’t care. “When you say max contract to come in and learn from these guys as much as you can as quick as you can — because you don’t know when you’ll be gone, shipped out — that’s what I’m doing. I can’t control that. I can’t control if Bob Myers is like, yo, let’s go get such and such for this and make this pick. That’s his job. I can’t control it or say anything about it, especially if I’m a part of it. So I don’t waste energy worrying about it.”