Jack Armstrong

We were kind of a startup company at that point.

And yeah,

So I hitched on at the right time and here I am 28 years later and I love it.

I still enjoy it every day.

It's a joy.

I mean, considering the fact they have made the playoffs the last three years and four of the last five years, and they were the ones most affected by the COVID crisis because they had to relocate to Tampa.

And everyone else was able to at least play in their home venues.

So I think things kind of got thrown out of whack.

And, you know, you look at that team in 2019-20, the year after the NBA title, they had the third best record in the NBA when the league shut down.

They were fabulous.

And that's without Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green.

And Marc Gasol, who was another year older, and kind of really starting to show the effects.

But that team had such incredible chemistry.

I really felt if COVID didn't happen, I thought that team, even without a great Kawhi Leonard, could have gotten back to the NBA Finals.

I don't know if they were good enough to win it, but they could have maybe gotten back.

And I think with Kawhi, they would have been back in the Finals and theoretically could have won it again.

So...

It was so unfortunate that things shut down.

And from that point on, it became a really difficult journey for the franchise.

I mean, two years later, they made the playoffs, won 48 games and lost to the Sixers in six.