Adam Amin

And yeah,

Like, all those experiences, along with that personality and charm and charisma and...

desire to do things in a different way because that's who he was there was nothing uh inauthentic about it that was truly him and then for chuck garfine in studio and luke stuckmeyer and you when you worked with him in studio to leila uh then to do what he did filling in for red kerr and then you know working with tom dore and and i i probably haven't mentioned guys like tom dore and wayne larry v enough in in the last couple of days i've been really focused on neil and

and stuff but i want to acknowledge you know the great lineage of announcers that we've had um and then to step in with neil the way he did you weren't going to stop him

you weren't and that's okay so how do you adjust it well let me learn your tendencies let me learn what makes you great and we'll try to work together and by the way that's exactly what my predecessor did that's what neil did and i hope people also acknowledge that and stacy talked about this all the time that neil gave him the runway

to do him, to be him.

And that is, for a Hall of Fame broadcaster who's got a shelf full of awards and the pedigree to boot with calling the championships and the moments that he did, for Neil to do that is an incredible act of...

it's an incredible act of sacrifice to one's own sensibilities.

And I think a pretty basic act of friendship and appreciation for somebody.

And I hope people also acknowledge that Neil was a big reason why Stacey could fly the way he did.

Your time is your time.

No, this is nice.

I think that's okay because I think

The Chicago Bulls fan base, the city of Chicago, those who followed him as a player, those who followed him as a young rookie back in 1989, and those who saw what he eventually evolved into as a broadcaster.

I think a lot of people feel the way that you're describing right now.

It becomes, if not indescribable, very much hard to put into words what he meant when

Because he was a lot of things to a lot of different people.

I mean, we were talking about it yesterday a little bit.

You got to understand, there's a generation of Bulls fans who follow the team right now that don't know Stacey King, All-American at Oklahoma, Player of the Year.

They don't know him as a player.