Fred VanVleet on deal with Rockets: 'I couldn’t sign that s*** fast enough'

Fred VanVleet: “So, the free agency was weird because, like, I knew I didn’t really want to go back to Toronto. They didn’t really want me back, but it was like, again, I had the relationship. So it’s like they kind of wanted to make sure they put a respectable offer down, but they came with the bulls*** first. So when Houston came with the real deal, this don’t nobody know it yet, soon as they said the number, my mind was made up. I don’t even give a f*** what nobody talking about. So now I was like, ‘All right, cool. So this is — this is — you got to work our way into it.’ Now you had official meetings and s*** like that. So I think that’s what was reported was the deal, but that was like before it actually happened. So then when I met with Toronto, they came with another deal like at the last minute like, ‘Yo, we going to offer you whatever we going to offer you.’ I’m like, ‘All right, bet.’ You know what I’m saying? But even my meeting with them was like they knew — you know, everybody in the room knew like this s*** over with. But it was just almost like just a formality, like we just doing this because this what we supposed to do. And then after that, my mind was made up and s***. We agreed to sign with Houston. But I think I was like the first deal that summer, so people was waiting to see where I was going to go, like how the free agency work. I was holding everybody up. But s***, I couldn’t sign that s*** fast enough.”

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