Julia Poe

How do you handle a really devastating injury or a draft pick that just does not pan out?

How do you react from those things?

And so I think, again, this is not the most helpful answer, but I think time will tell.

He's definitely saying all the right things.

It's just really difficult to kind of analyze how that's going to look on basically his first day on the job.

Definitely, definitely.

And I think that something that actually really impressed me over the course of this press conference is Modest DeZellis was sitting in the back of the press conference for the entire thing.

He actually made everyone clap when Bryson Graham walked in, which was very on brand for that young man.

And I thought it was really interesting.

In that setting, you've got your young star in eyesight while you're being asked this question.

Bryson was asked if any players on this roster are untouchable.

And he did a really good job articulating the answer, which is no, like there really aren't untouchable players anywhere in the NBA.

And he talked through his mindset of why and how you hear out offers and you have conversations about, and you remain flexible on players so that you can always be making a team better.

Also realizing that that never means that you don't value or care about a player as an individual and as a person.

And I just thought that that specific answer was really deft.

That is an awkward thing, quite frankly, to be asked when you have one of those star players in the room with you.

It's a great question, but it puts an executive in an uncomfortable spot.

And I just think that having that mentality of knowing clearly no one on this team is

is talented enough to be untouchable or this team would be competing in the playoffs.

You know what I mean?