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***.