Joel Lorenzi

You can look at the situation in OKC and say, well, Clay Bennett is completely hands off with Sam Presti.

Sam Presti is a proven commodity, man.

I don't think we have we haven't had the question of Sam Presti in over a decade, maybe longer than that.

So these are the things people are worried about.

Candidates, I should say.

That's absolutely what it's going to take.

For all this accountability Mike was talking about, all his sentiments yesterday, he called this thing a clean slate.

Minutes after he said, yeah, the next guy is going to have to like Billy Donovan, and they're also not going to...

be able to tank.

We don't like the word tank.

That doesn't sound like much of a clean slate to me.

It takes accountability.

It takes an understanding.

It's more nuanced than you're going to be hands-off, but you're also going to be involved.

There has to be a middle ground.

Going back to the AK stuff, I think there's a middle ground there.

I think there... I'd push back on...

I generally think AK wanted to be competitive, but I think AK saw his life flashing before his career, flashing before his eyes at some point, and was like, tanking is the only viable way to do this.

The trade deadline.

That's when he saw it.