Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Adam Amin has been impressed by what he's heard from Bryson Graham
14 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What insights does Adam Amin share about the Bulls' roster overhaul?
As we get set here in Pool B for the second game, Adam Amin, a couple of World Series champions, and A.J. Krasinski and Adam Wainwright. Ken Rosenthal is with us as well.
Judge swings, launches it deep left field, heading towards the wall, and it is gone. Walter, that's loose to Yuki. Behind the back to Moore. It's Yuki Mania. Cowabunga, baby. Oh, Murray keeps it. Murray being chased by Witherspoon. Floats for Wilson. Off target to Kobe Bryant. And there goes Kobe Bryant. With a house call for Seattle. And a Marshawn Lynch homage. Smith at the other end.
Slings it to Buscellos. Big shot. Give me the hot sauce. Big shot.
Boozy.
Oh, my goodness. Valentine.
Whoa.
No. No. That is not the shot at that moment. That's a horrible shot. Hit me with it, Stace. We haven't heard it in a long time. I almost forgot. I haven't said it in a month. Drive home safely, Chicago. Beep, beep. For Stacey and Casey, our great crew, I'm Adam. With Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. What?
There were ups and there were downs, but we got through the Adam Amin introductory open. This is Remy Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. We are broadcasting live from our Blue Cross Blue Shield performance studio today. Again, congratulations to our winner, Mark, who is one of only two people we got left in Mark, give it up for yourself.
Yeah. He gets the strobe light treatment. I appreciate that.
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Chapter 2: How does Adam Amin feel about the Bulls' recent performance?
I mean, I did come up. By the end of AC Law's tenure, I was actually covering some of his games because I was in Austin.
You got a pension at that point by the time the AC law was done with his collegiate career. That's how long he was there.
Yeah, the pension is $2 a month because I switched jobs so many times. But I do think that is interesting. So now you've got two Texas A&M guys. I understand the connection goes far beyond that, but that is compelling to me. But also just that there are three people now who we have to consider when it comes to personnel on the Bulls, and previously there were two.
And Mervis, too. It seems like, as you said, Layla, properly, there's going to be thought about what the organizational structure looks like. If it were a traditional structure, I imagine Mervis would probably be the number two, essentially. I don't know what that's going to look like in this current structure, whatever the changes are going to be. But what I like is...
you know, we talked about Bryce and Graham having this kind of like wide ranging experience. What I like is these two, again, unofficial hires. Um, you know, when Sean says it, you feel fairly confident in it, but like these two unofficial hires laws got a really good scouting background. Uh, He was with Brooklyn this past year. They really, I thought, did a great job in their draft.
They had a bunch of first-round picks, and most of them were pretty good. Yegor Dyomin was one of the top rookies in the NBA. They found a real shooter and a potential backup point guard in him, and their first-round picks, I thought, were really good contributors. I feel like AC has good experience with that. He also has a Thunder background. He spent a year with Oklahoma City.
So you at least get a taste of what is considered to be the elite organization of the NBA in terms of structure, organizationally, front office-wise, scouting. That seems to be the number one team for that, the number one organization for that. So he has that background. And then Mervis is a salary cap guy.
which I think is incredibly important right now because the Bulls, of any team in the NBA, are going to have more acres to roam in terms of exploring what they want to do with that extra money. The concept I think most people believe is, oh, well, you have $60 million in salary cap space. You should go get some players to help you compete. I don't think that's necessarily what you have to do.
The luxury of this particular ā Off-season, four picks, two in the top 15, two second-round picks where you try to find some depth or rotation pieces or just capital to be able to trade.
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Chapter 3: What are Adam Amin's thoughts on Bryson Graham's leadership style?
It was considered to be a three-player draft in Edwards, Wiseman, Ball. By the way, Wiseman didn't necessarily pan out. So any organization can mess up a pick like that or have that pick not pay dividends the way they want it to. And Patrick was kind of at the top of the heap in a COVID season where you didn't get a whole lot of feel for it. So this year doesn't feel like that.
This year feels like... DeBansa, Peterson, either Wilson or Boozer, and you pick the remaining player because that's probably the best player you're going to get. And that seems to be the theme that Bryson Graham has emphasized. Just let's get the best players and we'll figure out the rest.
No, I agree. And we talked about Michael Reinsdorf's candor in this, which I feel like is pretty important. Agreed. I've argued he needs to speak more. I know that's hard at first, but the more you get to know somebody, the more you understand, even in our positions, who they are.
And that's why we were all taken aback, not just by him talking about the communication, which, you know, it's one thing that we observe it. It's another thing when he's dealing with it as the owner of the team. But the other part was him saying, I'm sorry.
Sure.
Him saying this wasn't good enough, he starts with that. Those are the first words out of his mouth when he introduced Bryson Graham. I think that went a long way with people. If you show this fan base what your direction is, we will observe and go with you and understand it for a long time. When you change it, that's the challenge.
That's part of the Midwest sensibility. I know I keep kind of making the joke about that, but that's why this city is as forgiving and understanding as it is if you are humble, contrite for mistakes that seemingly are going to be put upon you. And to his credit, I saw this with Kevin Pritchard, right? The other day, the Pacers GM talked about like, hey, I...
Didn't think that this trade, the Zubats trade that eventually ends up losing them the number five pick. Like, I didn't think that that's how it was going to work out. We played the odds. We played, you know, the field that was in front of us and it didn't work out. People in Indiana are going to be a lot more receptive to that than if they said, no, no, no, no, no, no. This was a great deal.
And you guys, you know, let's let's look at the positives. Yeah, let's let's. pounce on the positives in practice. But when you speak to a fan base and speak to an audience, you have to understand where their frustrations lie and how to alleviate some of those. And sometimes that's just saying, hey, I messed up or we messed up or we made the wrong play. That happens sometimes.
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