Rafael Stone

I mean, I probably knew before.

It wasn't.

Maybe it wasn't quite as big for me as that change.

Yeah, that's fair.

So, yeah, maybe for me it wasn't quite that.

But I did think that was a huge pivot.

We decided that that had run its course and we were going to make a big pivot.

The rest for me is actually pretty linear, like pretty planned out.

Nothing was done like, oh, yeah, nothing was like –

Yeah.

And I still think we are that.

Notwithstanding the individual summers or whatever else, I think we're trying to build up to a championship level team.

We're trying to be very competitive, have the window be open as long as is possible, but always with a view towards...

you know, having extended runway of being very good, not, not like we're all in on this year, you know?

And, and I think, and I, yeah.

So I think since then it's been kind of this steady buildup and I still feel like we're kind of in that phase.

Yeah, I think maybe the external view was Durant's presence means we're all in on winning this year, or this is our only opportunity to win.

And it's why we extended him as soon as we got him.

We wanted him here for several years.

Hopefully he's here for the remainder of his career.