Ryan Smith

I was like, D.A., we've known each other for like 15 years.

We built incredible trust together.

And I think it's either going to be really good after this call or you're going to be really mad at me.

I just hired Austin as a president of basketball ops and you got to go figure out how to work for him.

And it was, it was quiet for a second, but there was no one more happy than DA.

Yeah.

And it's just been awesome.

And so Austin's in charge.

He's running the whole thing.

But part of this is for me, watching him and others and Austin go to work and knowing where to point DA.

you know, I'm sitting in that, I'm sitting in that draft interview room and I'm looking over and there's, there's will with championships and the pop pedigree today.

Austin's got a ring.

Avery Bradley's in there.

He's got a ring.

And I see DA with three rings and pretty much built the fourth.

Like I'm like, all right, this is, this is a championship.

I like, I'm not going to know more than these people.

And I, you know,

And I just need to, you know, make a couple of hard decisions a year or be a tiebreaker here.

And I'll just tell you this.