Danny Parkins
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They have to understand, we want to win, but we don't want to win if it's not sustainable.
Well, when I think it's sustainable, I think year after year after year.
Where is your source?
Give me money.
Money now.
Me a money needing a lot now.
I actually really admireβI've always admired Oklahoma City.
Obviously, Sam Pressy, and I've thought this for years, he's the best general manager out there in basketball.
Sam does things a lot different than other teams.
If you look at Oklahoma City, I think Sam's title is he's GM, and then he has a bunch of other people in his organization, but he doesn't haveβ
It's not set up like a head of basketball operations and then a general manager like we had with Arturas and Mark.
So, you know, what we're going to do through this process is we're going to look at all the organizations and say, what are things that we really admire about these teams?
What are they doing that we haven't been doing?
What can we do differently?
Clearly, Oklahoma City.
is, you know, they're the world champs, and Sam is a very unique individual.
And if you look back at it, I think he was hired when he was a 28-year-old.
So there's a lot we can learn from other teams in the league, for sure.
If I interview someone and they're not sold on Billy, and they're not sold on a Hall of Fame coach, they're not sold on a person who's won championships in college, who's gone deep in the playoffs with Oklahoma City, who I believe with the Chicago Bulls every year, given the team that he was given, I think he achieved really good results.