Hey everyone, welcome into another edition of the WojPod here in Vegas for NBA Summer League.

Great visit with Pelicans Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations, David Griffin.

We got into a lot of detail on the Anthony Davis trade, the drafting of Zion Williamson,

the reshaping of the Pelicans organization.

And David Griffin and I really talked a lot about the future of team building in the NBA, the way that player movement is impacted,

the way teams have to approach, building out plans, and how windows to win have shortened.

Great visit with Griff.

Now, the quality of the podcast is not what you may be used to sound-wise on the WojPod.

My fault.

But we tried to parse through the audio the best we can.

Our producer Andrew Hahn did a tremendous job.

But my fault.

But still, I think a very good pod, a great

visit with David Griffin. I promise the next one will sound better. So here's my visit with

New Orleans executive vice president of basketball operations, David Griffin.

Griff, being back in this job, having a team again, what does it like to wake up in the

morning, go to bed at night, having that feeling that purpose?

Yeah, so it's a wonderful feeling, but during the two years that I was away from a team

and doing television, you fall in love with the game of basketball again. You fall in love with

the sport itself. Every night you go to bed, it's that result that you're fixated on or the next

coming result. You really become very myopic and you lose sight of the

human being you really want to be. I talked to Sam Presti about this a lot when I was doing

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