Cody Westerlund

I don't care who they are.

You take the best one, who you think is going to have the best NBA career, and you essentially figure it out.

So...

I don't think... That's the mindset almost all teams have, unless you're a contender at the highest level and you're picking in the 20s in the first round and you know you need to plug in a guard to surround LeBron with shooting or something, which might be a bad example because the Cavs always traded their first round picks to get proven shooting, but you get the idea there.

So that's the strategy every team should have.

I think it's a strategy that, in the back of their mind, AK and Mark Eversley had too.

They just didn't execute it very well.

But look...

he's coming in here and trying to prove a point to fans first, I think.

Like, this is a different mindset.

Here's who I am.

Here's what I expect.

And there's no doubt, add as much talent as you can.

And remind me, too, later in the interview, I want to get to a point that I think is a better tell for the Bryson Graham era than the draft.

I think his free agency, a part of that.

But...

As it pertains to the draft, yes, I expect him.

If there's two 6'11 forwards he gets at 4'15", same player profile, that's fine with him because this is certainly going to be a 3-4 year rebuild, I think, in his mind.

He almost ends every answer with that, too.

Bryson Graham saying, there's a lot of work to do.