Here’s Portland Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons on the roster’s mindset for 2024-25.
(via Run Your Race):
“We’ve got a good team. We’ve got a lot of good young players. I think it’s just all a matter of pulling it all together. I think every young player got something to prove whether it’s me, Deni [Avdija], D.A. (Deandre Ayton) in that realm, and that helps though. We’ve all got something to prove that we can impact winning at a high level. Obviously with the young guys, they coming in. We’ve got a lot of lottery picks, they want to come in and prove themselves. So, I think that should be what drives us to become where we were before. And then obviously we’ve got players like Jerami [Grant], who’s been in the league a long time and he still wants to compete. So I think that’s the motivation for all of us: just proving ourselves, whether it looks different.”