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McD to Earl, "Make Warren, Len, and Bender look good like you made Markieff Morris look good last year. Run plays for them. Don't tell them it's because we are trying to trade them. You'll be fired if this doesn't go our way."


Earl to media after the game, "With Bender, I’ve always thought he was most like Lamar Odom — he can do a little bit of everything. Sometimes, he’s going to have 20-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and 10-plus assists all in the same game. “Our thing is we want all of our young guys to arrive, but we want them to arrive at different times,” the coach said. “Just for the production and the development of the entire group, so we’re excited about Bender.”
“We feel like Alex Len is the future of the center position, with Dragan Bender and maybe Marquese Chriss. With young guys, that’s a blank canvas that has to shake out.”
“We love T.J.,” Suns coach Earl Watson said. “T.J. is a big part of our family. Everyone has an important role in our family from T.J. to Derrick Jones. Anytime we’re missing someone in our family we feel that void emotionally. We understand it.

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