How does that hit you and other core players of a team to be told that from a teammate?

Or to hear that from a teammate?

Obviously, it's it's disrespect, but you know, everybody has a right to their opinion is we feel a certain type of way about some of his action.

But you know this, this is some of this is the, you know, the nasty part of the business that kind of gets swept under the rug.

Um, you deal with these type of things, and you know, when God's work in positions of being, you know, franchise players or whatever the case may be, um, it's usually sometimes a nasty, you know, break up.

Like I said, that's all part of his business.

Um, we know what our mindset is coming in every day.

We want to come in and work, get better.

Uh, this younger group, Um, regardless of what's going on with the team, the guys that are that are showing them that are committed, that are, you know, bought into, you know, the task in hand.

We're gonna go to war with those guys.

And whatever those results are gonna win with, I mean, we're gonna live with.

We're gonna leave it all on the floor and whatever happens happens as someone who signed here as a free agent.

You weren't traded.

Here is your choice.

Do you feel betrayed?

That's right.

Betrayed?

Not at all.

Do you feel like, you know, it was unfair to you to have chosen to sign Here is a free agent and then have the star player who want to leave.

I don't feel me personally.

I don't feel betrayed at all.

Um, my interest in playing with John Wall to be brutally honest with that being said, the disrespect start away before you know, any interview?

Um, just the approach to the training camp, uh, showing up the way he did the answers off the court.

I mean, disrespect started way before, So this isn't something that, you know, all of a sudden happened last night, But with that being said, like I said, this is the nasty part of the business.

So it is what it is.

Thank you.

The McMahon, DaMarcus at this point eyes there anyway, that that you guys could play with James Harden again?

Um, I don't really think that's a question, because I think that's a question for him.

Will he ever You could play with us again?

Um, I don't know, quite honestly.

Don't care.

And when you talk about disrespect, what specifically are you talking about?

There?

Um, I just feel like it za way about, you know, handling business.

Hey, could feel however he wants to feel with the organization or whatever his current situation is.

But other 14 guys in the locker room have done nothing to him.

So for us to be on the receiving end and some of the, you know, disrespectful comments and antics, it's completely unfair to us.

Like I said, we've done nothing to him.

We've on the showed up, the work just like everybody else, and came in ready to work.

So, like I said, it's completely unfair to the rest of the guys in the locker room.

Stephanie Jones.

Hey, DaMarcus, good to see you.

Um, question.

I asked Christian earlier, I'm gonna ask you the same thing.

Do you feel that this team, the way it's structured now, can be competitive with other elite teams in the league based on what you know you have on your roster.

Um, I do.

I believe we can, Um, it's all about just buying it.

Uh, I think with the guys we have in the locker room now, I think that's more than capable of happening.

So and besides, there's really no choice.

We we can't control.

What's going on with James Harden and organization and all those other things we control is what we do with our efforts.

Every day we show up the work.

And then just a quick another question.

I've been a part of teams where things like this have happened and the remaining players will bond together.

Do you feel like this is an opportunity that perhaps if James does move on to another team, that's the players that are left on the roster will be further bonded and play better?

I mean, it's you've seen that happen a million times.

Trades happen.

Teams changed.

It's honestly, we honestly don't have a choice but to continue to go forward, and that's what we will do.

We'll take two more Brian Bare field the markets being a veteran in this league and having been through some drama in the past.

How do you?

What do you tell the younger teammates that you have now in order for them to move forward after a situation like this?

Control control?

I saw we can just The situation will play itself out.

Basketball will continue to be played.

It's just a bump in the road right now.

Control what you can control.

Come, come toe, come into work, ready to work every day.

That's all we can do.

And last question, Adam swollen the Marcus.

Were you glad that James wasn't there today?

Was I glad?

I'm not happy with the drama at all.

That's what you're trying to search for.

E.

I don't think anybody wants to build is wrong.

Um, my plan this season.

Come in, play basketball at a high level and help elevate a team.

That's where my mindset, and that's going to continue to be my mind, um, to get caught up in any type of drama I want nothing to do with.

I'm here to play basketball.

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