Max Kellerman

The GM from the Bronx at the time.

Donnie Walsh.

Donnie Walsh is playing poker, right?

Yeah.

And then Dolan gets involved.

He's like, wait, the grownups are doing this.

Please don't do this.

And Dolan's like, oh, we have to get Carmelo.

And suddenly everybody's in the deal, right?

Presti is really smart.

And the thing the Clippers were really missing was an actual primary ball handler.

Not putting guys who...

can do it yeah you know it's almost like uh there's a there's a there's a uh an obvious desire to do this like in baseball at first base where well the most players can play first base therefore they conflate that with the idea that defense isn't important at first base and you have bad defenders at first base

And it's sort of the same in the NBA where it's like sometimes you get tempted.

Well, this guy can do that job.

Right.

That's different than he should do the job.

Like Draymond Green's not really the point guard.

He's a guy who can do that and he works in it and he can do it sometimes.

But...