Welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan, where someone who once was an executive and someone who once wanted to be an executive and never will be, are going to rank all 30 organizations and tell them what they're doing right and wrong.

So I hope everyone appreciates that.

But hey, you know, if we're not going to do it, who will, right?

Exactly.

Plus, this is very fun and cathartic for, I think, fans of certain teams, especially teams

who will probably not, we will probably not get to until the second or third round of

this exercise.

Yeah. So before we begin here, John, what are some of the factors that we are including here?

And I'll begin by saying, this doesn't include the coach.

We rank this as organizations because it's ownership, its management, but not the coach.

Those, the owner and management hire the coach.

So you also don't want to rank general managers or presidents of basketball operations because

they're just part of the whole.

So I think it's easier to rank the organization because then there's no question about

whether one person has responsibility. One person is doing a good job. The owner is doing a bad

job. The GM is fighting against the owner. No, it's just what have you put on paper as an organization?

Yes. And I think that's easier because we tend to think that individual general managers

operate the way we operate our fantasy teams. And that that's not really how it works. And you

sort of, you have to carry the assumption that you don't know what went on in the meeting.

Yeah. You know, organizations don't necessarily move in lockstep.

There are disagreements.

There are, you know, it's rare that you all walk out of a room and it's, you know,

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