Quinn Cook REVEALS How Atlanta Hawks Front Office Did Him DIRTY!
Published: Aug 18, 2024
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Atlanta Hawks Situation I got to Atlanta and they was like they had just got done rebuilding so like they were trying to rebuild so they unloaded um Dwight Howard mil sap corber je like their whole core like was gone just PA schroer John cars was a rookie uh torian was a rookie like they was young my Michael Delaney he was there I'm there we playing pickup and like you know I just play in the league like I just got done cooking summer league so like I'm on blast like I my game is I feel really good about my game so I'm we playing pickup I'm like y top five players here like some stuff Shake yeah bro man like my first my first pie game play Miami I had nine and like four yeah I a play again I a play again at all like like Coach B A put me in a game at all so uh and my contract was guaranteed the Saturday after our last what's name our last preseason game so like it's my third year it's my this is my it's my third year out it's my third year uh like move from college going to my 30 as a pro so like living like out of suitcase for like two three years you know what I'm saying G league and I had a little spot back home but I was only during the summer I a spot like so I'm I'm in Atlanta like and like you gonna make a team like like everybody telling me you going to make the team you goingon to make the team you going to make the team so I told my age I'm like yo look about to get a spot everybody tell you sure I'm good like I'm straight like yeah you want to make the team so I get a spot bro like like I really ain't made that much I ain't really made no money bro besides like my three 10 days and the rest of my check um you know I was old during the Warriors I mean not the Warriors the Pelicans but like I'm like I can't just be put no down pavings like this if you know what I'm saying you know I'm straight man sto playing like last three preon games I stopped playing I a play at all like I probably play like at the end of the game like the last minute one time and then I got two dmps but I'm killing in practice like I'm killing that's when I kind of realized like the politics and business behind it like like like I said in Dallas the the the the the decision was already made like I could have had 30 like was understand they already kind of had wasn't name so they they plans um which I respected you know they told me they kept it 100 with me um some you don't agree with it but is what it is so man I stopped playing so I told my asan I'm like yo Jim like I ain't playing like are you sure like I'm make team how you good so we had a last game on Thursday we had off on Friday like I said my contract was guaranteed on Saturday right know me I'm going facility get some work in that man like three on three it was like me Tyler dorsy John Collins TP like a couple of the young guys um and uh they playing three on three and I'm I'm playing well whatever whatever but nobody say nothing to me like but I ain't thinking n of because nobody's really in there to say something to me I just know guaranteed in a couple hours so I'm I I Ain even trying to stick around I'm really just trying to trying to get in and out so man so that day I moved into my apartment and anybody who was like moved into a spot man you got to mount TVs you got to get your furniture like so I'm doing all that I had my uh my brother come to town help me we doing all that bro and he was like my I call my agan I'm like man I just moved in you I'm straight nobody say nothing to me in practice somebody said nothing to me um not practice when I when I went to work out he was like man it's 99% chance like you good straight you know me I'm like what's that one yeah for real that's a valid question to ask though three times already so I'm like man I need you to know what's that 1% he's like man Trey can happen but I doubt it man like everybody everybody's Rost is FAL tomorrow so I'm like cool so I never forget it bro I'm doing all the The Crib stuff TV stuff we hooking up I'm I'm I'm I'm screwing and stuff and I'm doing the most but you know me and my brother we get it done and I put I put one of my favorite movies on uh F heartbeats bro like I had my phone and I put my I just put my phone down like put my feet up like like man they been a long day I talking about the movie couldn't even start my he like yeah um Cleveland just just traded um K Felder and and Richard Jefferson Atlanta so they gota wave you what I'm like do no way bro and that was in my career I'm like man I don't know what I'm about to do like I don't know what I'm about to do call I called Lan called KD like I'm spazzing I'm like yo bro this crazy like bro like I don't know what I'm about to do I told no I'm like man I'm G take a year off bro like he was coaching that Duke at the time I'm G take a year off man I come I come to Duke a lot like I got I got a spot here in Atlanta now that so like I come back and forth to work out with you at Duke I just be around but I was mentally ready to go overseas at that time so I'm just like I'm going take the year off cuz I can't go back to the G League I I literally just did everything possible in the G League yeah what else you gonna accomplish I don't know so no Nolan Smith/Warriors Phone Call like you emotional right now get it sleep it off call me in the morning so like like usually I'm like super laser focused Mama mentality all that stuff but I'm like man I got a crib in the hey man I'm about to enjoy it I'm about we about to go out I'm about to have some Vibes like you know what I'm saying we going turn up I ain't drink but like I I Ain drink at the time but I'm like man we about to we about to enjoy it man we all over the city man I go to sleep at like 8: am bro I woke up at like Doom I had nine Miss calls for my agent and I had like five minuts from Steve kerk and I'm like dang like so Steve's like man we want to utilize you we're gonna sign as a two-way because we're g to keep 14 people on the roster but we gonna treat you as our third string point guard music to my ears man I was going to playing the next day with the Warriors and it's crazy how that works because like that year you know no disrespect to my guys in the a but they was the worst team in the league that year like so you know I got literally got cut by the worst team of the of the worst team you know of the year of That League and uh you know I S him the best team literally so know it's crazy how life be working sometimes when I first got there obviously like you know I had relationships with st because obviously I played with his brother Seth played against Draymond in college like he we always that had that mutual love um but like you know I was Katie's little brother so I always was with ktie but like on the court like in the in the in the facility I was always you know grouped with Iggy and and Dot Sean Livingston so I literally like my lockers was next in between them for for the next two years um know they just always gave me that that that that that that game and uh I was lucky but um after like Steph got hurt the first time and I back and forth from from there in the G OB was two8 and I was when I was playing with Santa Cruz like you know like I had played 20 25 games in the league already and I had destroyed summer league so when I was going back down to the G League like I wasn't like like mix like I wasn't like acting like I'm better than everybody I wasn't like that like my play was just on another level