Mitch Kupchak

And finally, do they strike ink on the contract paper and get them for above $200 million, if anything? That is crazy.

going to be a really good uh feel good story for this off season so far considering of all the moves that was made in uh the prior moves you know in prior trades and prior moves to pretty much support this new rebuild or pretty much new retooling of the charlotte hornets team as it is brandon miller finally getting that contract extension And finally, getting to that good graces of the Hornets management, if anything, because if you guys not remember, Brandon Miller was the last player of the Mitch Kupchak or last first round pick of the Mitch Kupchak and Michael Jordan era in terms of management before Jeff Peterson came in.

So.

Jeff Peterson comes in with a new player or pretty much a fresh face rookie, if anything, going into his second year from that point on.

think he's gonna make an all-nba team but if the hornets were top six seed i think somebody on this team has to be on an all-nba team so those definitely go in hand in hand i'm a little bit lower on charlotte i think they're gonna just do a bunch of trial and error next year and really just try to pivot this team elsewhere jeff peterson said like i want the guys that i brought in I didn't want anybody that was here before me.

He's moved on from like Gordon Hayward, Mark Williams, DJ Washington, Bridges, Plumel Ball, plenty of guys before the Hornets moved on from Mitch Kupchak and they sold the team.

So I think it's okay with this being a little bit of a retool season and that's not going to result in them making the playoffs.

Bobby Knuckles mentions here for the Miami Heat that Pelle Larson is your six man of the year.

How do you feel about him?

The guy the Hornets drafted, technically, Jalen Durant, before they traded him and kept Mark Williams, one of many terrible trades made by Mitch Kupchak.

Look, he would certainly help the team.

He's on the right timeline.

And, and it was so pained, and it was hilarious when Daenerys aged [laughs] the way that she did in the show, which actually wound up kind of following how things have kinda ended here for Jeanie at the very end.

Um, but one of the things that Ramona Shelburne reported i- throughout that entire ordeal or in that ordeal as, uh, Jeanie won out over Jim and Johnny, was that, you know, she went at Mitch Kupchak.

And I, I...

Mitch was hit and miss as a GM.

The bar is open.

It's Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry wherever you get your podcasts.

And Ramona, in that article, wrote that, uh, there was some frustration with how distant Mitch Kupchak had become.

And one of the details given in explaining how distant Mitch Kupchak had become was that Mitch Kupchak's daughter had just passed away.

He went and told Mitch.

Mitch Kupchak was on the plane.

It was wild.

Poor loser.

Yeah.

Shout out to Mitch Kupchak, who got a first-round pick for that man, too.

Like-

That's right

... surprisingly got a first-round pick for that man.

It's one of the few Mitch Kupchak highlights and why I will always argue his tenure wasn't that bad.

He was just doing this on a shoestring budget, and he didn't complain.

Um, but this is the first year where, quite literally, this is, like, you don't know what to expect.

It's still a chance for NBA teams out there to pretty much make something or get to something or surprise teams out there in the NBA and show them that, you know, we're just not a pushover from that point on.

So, Sean Horton, as of right now, as I said, I feel like the culture has completely changed a 180 compared to where it was three years ago, especially with the regime with Mitch Kupchak and Kupchak.

steve clifford if anything now and also james borrego because again steve clifford and james borrego same kind of timeline in a sense coach charles lee has been doing a fantastic job in terms of bringing everything together putting everything together for his team and uh really love the enthusiasm of getting the players working together and basically being out there in the community as much as they can and then james peterson or jeff peterson doing a great job bringing in culture guys to pretty much help them out and help out the younger players that's coming in as well.

Notice the younger guys as well.

Yeah, I'm good to put him in A and then have people be mad about it.

I wanna put him in C for Kupchak, but, you know.

That's funny.

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