00:00How is the job viewed around the league, and how might that either limit or expand the field of candidates?
00:06The other thing I would add to that list, which I tweeted out yesterday, is, you know, Jerry Krause, 18
00:14years.
00:15John Paxson, 17 years.
00:17Arturis, Ernest Fisk, 6 years.
00:19And it was a surprise that it ended when it did.
00:21This is an ownership group that does not like to make change at that level often.
00:25So it's an incredibly attractive job.
00:28And I also think it's a pretty quick fix, which is, I'm sure, one reason why it's so disappointing for
00:33Arturis and Mark to get the news yesterday.
00:36Because, you know, this is a good situation that whomever succeeds them is inheriting.
00:43And, you know, you could make the same case that Arturis and Mark inherited that same situation.
00:48I mean, their books were clean in 2020.
00:50They had good young players in Lowry, Markin, and Wendell Carter Jr., Kobe White.
00:54They had all their draft picks.
00:57And so, you know, they had a clean slate when they inherited the job.
01:01And whomever replaces them will have the same situation.
01:05So, look, they're going to be able to get a good candidate in here.
01:08And I would also remind people that when Arturis was hired, it wasn't just local people saying that it was,
01:17you know, a good hire.
01:18It was celebrated around the league.
01:19Arturis was known around the league, respected around the league, expected as someone who was going to, you know, build
01:27on his success as a number two guy in Denver.
01:30And you just sometimes, you know, never know about that jump from number two to number one.
01:34And, you know, that's where we're at, where we are.
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