Howard Beck

He wasn't mad at it.

No, it was very much like a homecoming he embraced.

But he also, like we were talking about with Giannis, where there might be mixed feelings because Giannis really did embrace Milwaukee.

Carl Anthony Towns really put in some deep roots in Minneapolis, to his credit.

And John Krasinski at The Athletic wrote really beautifully about this at the time of the trade and since then.

Yeah.

And I think, but towns very much loved the homecoming.

Everybody, all the New York area guys love the idea of the homecoming and it almost never works out quite the way you hope.

Someone just says, like, Ty, we're giving you a ticket to one game the entire season.

You're going to say Tyrese Maxey?

There's one player you get to see or one team you get to see, and you're going to pick Maxey over Wemby.

No, no, no.

I don't mean by winning.

I mean for entertainment purposes.

He's great.

Great player.

I don't mean for our lack of collective enthusiasm here to be any reflection upon Pascal Siakam.

He's a really, really, really good co-star.

He might be the ideal co-star.

And I think if I have a take on Pascal Siakam, that is about as strong as I can get.