Hey, everyone, welcome into another edition of the Woj Pod here with the new Utah Jazz

owner, Ryan Smith.

Ryan, how are you?

Good, Woj.

Thanks for having me on, man.

Thanks for jumping in.

Let me start here, Ryan.

You bought the Jazz 1.66 in that vicinity billion dollars.

From the Miller family, you were approved by the Board of Governors just before Christmas.

And now you're fully engaged.

You're the owner of the Jazz.

You take over a very good team in the Western

conference. And you grew up a jazz fan, which I think people have heard about you. But in the

short time, you've owned the team, Ryan, has there been some like, as you're learning all the

things that come with owning an NBA team? Is there some perk or something or access that you're like,

wow,

I didn't know NBA owners got to do this or had access to that in the league.

Is there something that surprised you so far that people would know

that's kind of cool you get to do or you get to have access to as an MBA owner.

Yeah, I mean, look, I think it's been a three-week process here and even a little bit before

that because, you know, we announced and we were kind of working through the transition process.

That's not an overnight thing. But I was pretty close to the team.

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