Pat McAfee

The number two overall pick was obviously highly sought after because is it going to be D'Abanza or will it be a man who had a lot of question marks but obviously a lot of ability in Darren Peterson?

Joining us now, the owner of the Utah Jazz and the chair of the Smith Entertainment Group, ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Smith.

Sweet merch.

The UJ is sick.

And I assume you have one for Big J as well.

That is a great shirt right there.

Congratulations on last night, Ryan.

It felt like an overwhelmingly positive evening for the Utah Jazz and the Utah people.

The FanFest clip that we saw, huge.

Watching Peterson watch the FanFest clip, awesome.

Feels like last night was a smashing success for you.

Is this how you guys expected it to go?

Yeah, it feels like you, Coach Hardy, obviously Ainge, Ainge's boy, have all been in this for the long haul.

And it's obviously good whenever owner, manager, and coach are all rowing in the same direction.

Feel like you have gotten to this point.

To add Darren Peterson to this group, obviously spectacular for you.

But this wasn't like, no pun intended here, a layup of a pick, or was it?

Because of how talented he is.

They're seemingly outside looking in, just as we'll call ourselves football fans.

uh idiots that cover sports as a whole so from a 30 000 foot view there was some questions about darren peterson then i'm hearing answers where he's thinking like what would kobe do in this situation and i'm seeing him watch the video of the fans over there and he's like i can't wait to get out there so did you have to decipher through what was real what wasn't how'd you guys go through that and inevitably what do you think you're getting here with peterson