Raja Bell

than any person on draft night would have ever given them an opportunity to make because they read the room, they figured out how they could be valuable to an organization, and they kept doing that.

And they kept earning trust in that way until someone would give them the opportunity to do something more.

A lot of guys get in there.

They don't read the room in that way.

They don't have the self-awareness to sit back and say, hey, someone else is doing that job here.

He may be better than me.

Well, even if he's not better than me, in my mind, they deem him better at that than me.

And so I've got to figure out another way to impact winning and make a living.

And the crazy thing is it's always the guy that's really good offensively.

It's almost always that guy.

It's almost always that guy that feels like he's too good to not be the hub offensively.

You very rarely see a dude who thinks he's great defensively and hangs his hat on defending be that guy that's in and out because they can always use that.

But it's always that guy that's an incredible shot maker, a portion of the fan base,

Usually the ones that don't know hoops will fall in love with his ability to make really, really tough shots over and over again and score the ball.

And that guy is hard sometimes to convince that it's not his ball to shoot every time and that he has to find another way to impact winning.

And I've had those conversations with players as a front office member.

And I remember them like imploring, begging, articulating how the structure of a team looks and how what

An individual player might see from his side is not what an organization sees from their side.

And there could be a happy medium there if you would just do X, Y, and Z.

You think that conversation went well.