[Spud6]

Glad to see that it's going to him-- a very deserving player. I don't think I'd go as far as saying I'd have laughed in anyone's face, but I will say that if you'd have told me to rank the candidates at before the season began, he and EJ Montgomery probably would have been behind Anthony Edwards, Kerry Blackshear, Samir Doughty, Isaac Okoro, Ashton Hagans, Tyrese Maxey, and possibly one or two others.

That’s the direction I meant with my statement. Maybe laugh in someone’s face is a little stretch there. But I wouldn’t have believed them either way.