Marcus Smart on facing Draymond Green: You respond to fire with fire

CJ Holmes: Andre Iguodala (knee swelling) is questionable for Game 3 tomorrow night. -via Twitter @CjHolmes22 / June 7, 2022

Kerr then told Edwards to run the drill again, and then again, with the same prompt of asking if the then-Georgia guard could run any faster. The Warriors staff then took Edwards out to dinner and gave him the advice that may have changed his professional trajectory. “[Kerr]’s telling me like, ‘Ay man, if we going to draft you at No. 2, you got to be a hard worker, like you ain’t working hard enough.’ I think that was a stumble in the road for me. I called my trainer afterwards and was like, ‘Ay bruh, we got to change.’ Steve Kerr told me how Steph and KD used to work out super hard. It might not be long, but it’s super hard when they in there. Ever since then, I feel like I took that next step,” Edwards said. -via San Francisco Chronicle / June 7, 2022

Gary Payton on his son Gary Payton II: “It’s just basketball. I know people that take it as different because they seen jump a little later. And then he hit him across his head. My son would just tell you he landed wrong. He didn’t brace himself the right way. But when his hand came down, it locked instead of bending. And that’s what caused the injury. It’s basketball. Everybody’s got to understand, man, that it’s a contact sport. It is what it is. If you push him out of the air in the stands or something like that, then I would’ve been kind of upset. But it was a basketball play. The kid Brooks is, you know, he’s just a competitor. He jumped too late. It was something that shouldn’t have been done, jumping late, but he’s not thinking that way. I don’t think he thought at that moment, let me hurt him. It wasn’t like that. And I just think it was unfortunate. -via For The Win / June 7, 2022