Vincent Goodwill

That's what this entire series looked like.

Look, well, Vivek Ranadive, it just shows you that, Dan, this thing starts at ownership.

And the great NBA owners routinely get out the way.

The more we speak about your name, it's probably not in the positive context, right?

How many times have we said the name Jim Dolan outside of him saying, we better get to the finals?

Outside of that, he's been regularly quiet.

But when you talk about the Kings and some of these other franchises that can't get it right, it's usually because ownership can't stop meddling.

Now, Sacramento has had crossroads.

Well, do we take Halliburton or do we take Fox?

And you wind up taking Fox, and then that winds up going sideways after having a couple of good years with Mike Brown as your head coach.

They have a mess that they have to work themselves out of.

But good to great teams

identify the marks that they can eat off the trough of.

And Sacramento, to a large degree, has been building NBA Finals teams for the better part of the past couple years.

You were thinking about LeBron James last night, as you always do?

You want to rephrase that, Dan?

That's a great question.

I think, Dan, it comes down to dollars and cents.

Like, the Cavaliers are the one NBA team in this very punitive second apron, which means they don't have the mechanisms to pay a player like LeBron James as their roster is currently constituted.

And then you add on the possible or likely James Harden extension, because you don't trade for James Harden at this age and trade a point guard who's 10 years younger for James Harden for a one-year rental.