All right. Just a couple of things before we get started. I want to recognize the loss of

Stacy King from yesterday, obviously, a great Oklahoman from Lawton and a great player at

OU. We send our thoughts and prayers to everybody associated with him, and it's obviously a great loss

to the basketball NBA community. Obviously, I want to just start by thanking all of our fans,

all of our partners, everybody that is associated in some way, shape, or form in supporting

the organization and the team across the world.

Very grateful to everybody.

Always want to take time at this juncture to thank the media for telling the story of our

team, our players, our community.

Everybody in the media has really helped amplify all the good things about Oklahoma City to many, many people that are lived far away from here.

So we're very grateful for that.

I'd like to start, as I always do with an opening statement that is directed to our fans directly to them.

That's who I'll be speaking to.

And then once I'm able to get through that, happy to take any questions that people have and try to get you as thoughtful answers as we can.

All right.

So when I sat in front of everybody last September, I made the central theme of the discussion

NBA history.

And if you recall at that time, there was a lot of external conversation about why it was

so hard to repeat in the modern NBA.

And of course, there was still a tremendous amount of excitement from the previous season and what it

could mean for the season in front of us as a team.

We talked a lot about how fortunate Oklahoma City was to be associated with the NBA, to have

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