Center DeAndre Jordan stunned the Dallas Mavericks this week by breaking a verbal commitment to the team and deciding to re-sign with the Los Angeles Clippers. Jordan, who tweeted an apology to Mark Cuban and the Mavs Friday, signed a four-year, $87 million deal after a number of people from the Clippers organization — including Doc Rivers, Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick — made a trip to Jordan’s home in Houston.

At the time it seemed like the Clippers were invading Jordan’s home and camping out until he agreed to a deal (Griffin even tweeted a photo of a barricaded door), but Redick explained to Grantland’s Zach Lowe that the Clippers were simply delivering a contract to Jordan, who didn’t need to hear a pitch from the team.

“Blake and were at dinner the night before, taking pictures, I’m like ‘how is this not on the Internet yet?’ We all met at a hotel, we head over to DeAndre’s and the rest is basically what’s been put on Twitter with, of course, less drama. It was a meeting. It was less a pitch and more just teambuilding as Doc said. That was very short, a very short meeting. We broke out into a casual conversation. I think Doc was like ‘DeAndre we’re staying until 11:01 when you can sign a contract,’ and DeAndre said ‘cool let’s get some food.’ His parents went and got some chicken for us, and Paul , , DeAndre and me started playing spades on the kitchen table.”

Redick also opened up on his key role in the Great Emoji War of 2015.

“I get ready, hop in my car, drive to Houston. At this point, Wednesday morning, the story hasn’t broke. I was under the assumption that by this time there would be something on Twitter and people would be freaking out…. I was already in Houston and just kind of on my Twitter account, scrolling through my timeline and I saw a plane emoji. You know, ‘Chandler Parsons to the rescue, yay!’ And I’m just like, ‘alright we’re going to tweet out a car.'”

The rest is history.

You can listen to Lowe’s entire interview with Redick here.