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MrBuckBuck: Former GM Ryan McDonough on the Trae Young situation: “One of the hard things for an organization is when a player and his agent are pushing, saying ‘let us talk to the other 29 teams’ and as the GM, you have to play it coy while thinking ‘Well, I know what they think about him…””

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Earl Watson: So Jimmy Butler gets on the block. We're on a road trip. We land. Robert Sarver sends me a text. ‘Come to my house immediately.’ It's like two or three in the morning. I'm not trying to go to nobody house in no two in the morning. I'm trying to go home, right? [laughter] I pull up to the house. It's Sarver. It's Ryan McDonough. And Ryan kind of gave me a look like ‘here we go.’ So I sit down and he goes, "We have a trade." And I go, "What's the trade?" I'm first year head coach. I'm always looking for us to get better. I'm now learning if you don't get better, you are obvious tanking, right? So I go, "What's the trade?" He goes, "We have a trade for Devin Booker. We're going to send Devin to Chicago for Jimmy Butler." In that moment I am the biggest Devin Booker advocate, right? Would have been a hell of a team though: Eric Bledsoe, Tyson Chandler, Brandon Knight, Jimmy Butler. It could have changed my entire coaching trajectory, right? Q. But why weren't you rolling? Watson: I’ve seen I really seen a kid who could be one of the greatest players to ever play. And I sat there and I watched the kid work. I'm in the gym with the kid. I think coaches who don't get in the gym with their players, no matter what your position is as a coach, I think you lose imagination. You got to get on the court. You got to be in the workouts. You got to see what a player can actually do and cannot do. So when you get in the game and you draw up a play, you're confident in that play or you develop plays because you see something that you don't see in practice that you might see in an individual session. Right. So in that moment, Chris, and this was the beginning of the end of me in Phoenix. In that moment, Chris, I say, "If you trade Devin Booker, I am resigning tonight." So, we go back and forth. And right now I feel sorry for Ryan McDonough because he is like ‘oh sh*t.’ I’m like I do not want to trade Devin Booker. You can build around him, I don't want to be the coach that traded potentially one of the best two guards, say five to 10 to ever play. I believe he had that potential. He had superstar potential.

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Sirius XM NBA: “I let Steve Nash go, and the whole town hated my ass for a long time” 🤣🤣 @mcuban joins @termineradio, @jumpshot8, & Ryan McDonough - hear why he still has confidence in Nico Harrison Hear live Summer League shows all weekend long on NBA Radio! sxm.app.link/nbaradiolive pic.x.com/iBVqgus2O5

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SiriusXM NBA Radio: “We're looking at potentially US against the world type formats." @NBA Commissioner Adam Silver tells @TermineRadio , @Jumpshot8 , & Ryan McDonough about how the league is looking at fixing the All Star Game

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SiriusXM NBA Radio: “We don't own Christmas…competition keeps you on your toes. The NFL sees an opportunity on Christmas. I accept that” With the NFL schedule being released this week, Adam Silver talks to @TermineRadio , @Jumpshot8 & Ryan McDonough about how the NBA is approaching potential schedule changes

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SiriusXM NBA Radio: “I can’t remember even a postseason since I’ve been following the league" @NBA Commissioner Adam Silver tells @TermineRadio , @Jumpshot8 , & Ryan McDonough his thoughts on the spectacular postseason so far.

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Sirius XM NBA: “Hopefully we can get Lonzo back. He's moving closer…he’s a guy that everyone enjoys playing with and I think the same can be said for Josh" Billy Donovan sees similarities with Josh Giddey and Lonzo Ball w/ @TheFrankIsola @darthamin & Ryan McDonough #NBA2KSummerLeague pic.twitter.com/0aIKQjbAQD

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Sirius XM NBA: “We are very interested in getting something done with [Jamal Murray]” Nuggets GM Calvin Booth gives the latest on contract negotiations with their star guard with @TermineRadio , @jumpshot8, & Ryan McDonough. More from #NBA2KSummerLeague here! sxm.app.link/NBASummerLeagu… pic.twitter.com/WdQAQlH08P

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Sirius XM NBA: “I told [Bucks ownership] ‘I don’t understand why you’re doing this.’” Bucks HC Doc Rivers tells @TheFrankIsola & Ryan McDonough about his conversation with ownership after Adrian Griffin was let go Hear more great interviews on the new @SiriusXM App! sxm.app.link/NBAAllStar2024 pic.twitter.com/B6GKJu9HVT

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Tyson Chandler only needed to see Devin Booker play in a pickup game going into the Phoenix Suns' 2015-16 season to draw a glowing conclusion about the then-18-year-old rookie out of Kentucky. “I remember afterwards, (former Suns general manager Ryan McDonough) was like, ‘What do you think?’ said Chandler in an interview on Showtime’s “All The Smoke” with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. “I was like, ‘I’m going to be honest with you. The best player you got on your roster is that kid you drafted, Devin Booker.’”

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“(McDonough) was like, ‘What?,’” Chandler continued. “He was like, ‘Really? What do you think about (Knight and Bledsoe)?' I was like, ‘They’re good, but I’m telling you, me, them, this roster, (Booker is) better than all of us. That’s the best player you got on this roster,’ and he was like ‘Really?’”

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Ryan McDonough: Keep an eye on the Bulls as a potential landing spot for Bamba Chicago’s front office is looking to add rim protectors

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Ryan McDonough: Unfortunately, NBA Front Offices are currently spending most of their time dealing with issues related to Covid Their players are entering the protocols rapidly, NBA games are getting postponed and scouting calendars are being disrupted as college and G League games get canceled

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Ryan McDonough: My thoughts on ESPN's story on the Phoenix Suns

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