Adam Amin

He it's like he took his arms and like wrapped everybody up and then kind of pushed you, you know, pulled you inward a little bit before letting go.

Just so everybody was a little closer and a little tighter.

And everybody was like, oh, hey, there's other people here.

How are you?

And like you could not help but interact with everybody else in the circle.

Like he would.

I imagine, Stacy, when people, you know, say, oh, that guy was the life of the party or

When I think of life of the party, it's not the guy who barrels in through the front door and starts screaming and yelling.

That's not who he was.

He's the guy that glides in through the front door, has a different aura about him.

And not only does he differentiate himself because of that, he then decides, well, I'm going to get everybody into this and pulls everybody in a little bit closer where you do interact with the people around you.

And I'll tell you this quick story and then we got to go.

The juxtaposition of Stacey to me, when we were in Paris for the Bulls playing the Pistons, and on one night we're sitting at a five-star hotel in Paris eating escargot and listening to him tell all those Turkish mobster stories and his travels in Europe and the Hollywood starlets he rubbed shoulders with and the actors that he could shake hands with.

And then I was like, this is the coolest thing in the world.

And then the next night, he rips his suit pants from thigh to ankle when he gets on the bus to go to the arena in Paris, France.

So then we have to eventually staple his pants shut for the broadcast.

Mark Brady did Yeoman's work there.

And then right when that happened and we're getting adjusted and sat down at our broadcast position, he looks across the way and sees Victor Wembanyama, 19 years old, not drafted, and goes, that dude's about to change the league.

And what do you know, three years later, that's the case.

And in the very next moment, as if it was a completely natural occurrence...