What, what can you tell me about the, about this player just to start, as a starting point for Celtics fans who might not have even heard about Dylan Mitchell prior to the draft?

Yeah, like, he's, he is an NBA a- athlete.

He is an NBA-level defender.

Um, he does everything really but shoot, shoot the ball.

He's- that's not, like, that's really gonna be something they're obviously gonna have to work on.

He's not, he's a non-shooter from, you know, from three.

Um, but every, like, if he was a, if he could shoot threes, he would've been in the NBA three years ago.

Yeah.

Yep.

Um, you know, it, it's a huge, huge addition.

I, I, like, there's no two ways about it.

It's...

It makes them a, to me, a top 10 pre-season team.

Um, he's a Big East player of the year candidate.

You know, I can make an argument that I would rather have him than, um, you know, Diop from, who ended up going to Gonzaga.

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Can you think of anything like this? I haven't seen this in the city in a long, long time.

No, it, it reminds me of my childhood.

It reminds me of the '90s, you know, when nobody cared about anything else until the Knicks were done.

You know, every year they were in the s- at least in the second round, and the big games, there was like a buzz in the air.

Now it was obviously back then I'm in, like, high school, junior high school, and, like, I don't have the money obviously to be going to the games.

But, like, I remember I'd, you know, um, I'd go, go out...

Sometimes I didn't have cable growing up, so, like, my dad would take me out to the bar on Park Slope and we'd watch the game, and k- you know, people were so into it.

When was it for you?