Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for February 13th,

2020.

I'm Dave Dufour here with S. Barrieh and Sam Amic coming up.

We talk about Sam's piece on Matt Isbia and the Sun's success this season.

We talk about tanking and a little bit of trade deadline fallout.

Good morning, everybody.

What's up, Sam?

Hey, S, how you guys doing?

All-Star weekend loading.

Sam's already in L.A.

We're here, boys. Nice to see you. All right. Well, Sam, staring at, I was going to paint the picture real quick, Dave. Sorry, just for the people. You know, we got L.A.X in front of me. We got runways, United Plains. We are living the luxury life over here but happy to be with you guys beautiful beautiful that's

awesome la s gotta love it you had a story at the athletic on owner of the sons matt ishbia and look

they've had a great season uh we'll throw out that that blowout loss to the thunder the other night

they've had a great and surprising season.

What do you think has been the biggest change outside of coaching and GM?

What has been the biggest organizational change from last year to this?

Well, I mean, you know, what I tried to do with the story and, you know, in the picture that I tried to paint after learning about what they've done is, I guess to your question, Dave, is that, you know, after Matt's first couple of years of ownership that, as we know, we're pretty disastrous, they chase Kevin Durant, they chase Bradley Beal.

They end up having to come off both guys. They have no picks until 2032. It's just an absolute nightmare. They're in luxury tax hell.

They're, you know, it's so expensive. It ends up sparking lawsuits between, you know, Matt and the

minority owners on the team. And it's all kinds of messy. And so the narrative all the way through that time was that Matt was too involved in terms of

his critics, right?

And admittedly, that I have been won.

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