Ryan Smith

when you've been bouncing the first round like three times.

Right.

You know, and I think when Danny, when Danny originally came in, he and I had a lot of real honest conversations about that.

And ultimately he's like, Hey, look, I've done this before.

This is what we're doing.

And like, this is how we're, we're going to think through this.

And, you know, he had been coming from a place where he'd been knocking on that door with a really good team in Boston for some time.

that he had kind of put together and then obviously the year he leaves like they end up going back re adding one more piece almost you don't know what you got and it's just one more piece then that didn't work and then one more piece and you know having those assets to be able to do that is really important

Brad doesn't answer my calls.

Yeah, but I think the other thing is also, one of the things I do love, I'll just be honest, and it's not to get on the OKC train, but one of the things I do love is just, I mean, with Joe Kitch in SGA is just how they haven't let the narrative come.

Like, they've been pretty forward thinking on both of those individuals about, no, I like this market.

I want to be here, you know?

you know, there's a lot of drama.

There's a lot of narrative that comes out.

Well, you're in a smaller market.

You're in this or that.

Like it's loud enough for these players.

You know, we see this in hockey, you know, there's a lot of these players play the worst when they're in the biggest markets, you know?

And I love the fact how they're embracing that market.

There's nothing you can't do from OKC.