All right, happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone. John, great to talk to you, even though I saw you

for approximately 90 seconds while you're here. Yes, and I've already left. Since you left,

saw me, I've gotten on a plane to Phoenix. I've written a column, and I even, I slept for like a little

bit, but I'm punchy, man.

So.

Okay.

Well, this could get, this could get interesting.

So we got to talk playoffs a ton of course.

But I think a lot of the meat of what we do here is front office related, relying on your expertise from seven years with the Memphis Grizzlies.

And during those seven years, you drafted one Dylan Brooks, pretty damn good draft pick, if I say so,

45th overall.

Uh-huh.

Thank you.

And then we had unprecedented reporting a couple of days ago from your colleague,

Sean Strania, that Dylan Brooks will not be brought back under any circumstances with the Memphis Grizzlies.

What do you think of that?

It's interesting because it's a stylistic departure from how they have operated under Zach

Klyman in particular. And so it makes you wonder. And so how a stylistic departure in what sense?

In that they they've operated in a way where they're not going to foreclose

options like that two months ahead of time. Like when you say under any circumstances, you're saying

that even if even if there were no trade options and no free agent options,

you wouldn't re-sign them to a one-year deal overpriced

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