Ernest Watson

Quinn Cook says the Hawks told him to get a home, then cut him the day he moved in “The GM’s like, ‘Man, you should get a crib out here.’ You know what I’m saying? I live in a hotel. I’m like, ‘Bro, you sure?’ Because I’m tired of living in a hotel, but I also been cut numerous times. So I’m like, ‘Bro, you sure, bro?’” “So my agent like, ‘Yeah, bro, you 99 percent, you going to make the team. They going to love you, I mean, they love you,’ blah, blah, blah.” “I’m like, ‘What’s the other one percent, though? You ain’t say 100. You said 99.’ They like, ‘Man, if a trade happens… you good...’” “Finally get my spot. Moving day, we had an off day, and my contract was guaranteed the next day. I go in there and nobody really say nothing to me. It’s a regular day. I move all my stuff. I had my brother come down. We mounting TVs, we picking up drawers and beds, putting everything together.” “And we finally did it. I put my favorite movie on. I put my feet up. I literally look at my phone and my agent was calling. I’m like, ‘I ain’t even answering that,’ you know what I’m saying?” “Called again. I answered. They was like, make the trade, they had to waive you. Just sleep on it. Sleep on it. That’s the first day where I wanted to quit...” “And I wake up, I had like 10 missed calls from Steve Kerr. So I got cut by the worst team, and then I got signed by the best team the next day. And then we won the chip the next year. So that was the best year ever.”