> **Brandon:** First of all, Conor… 30 candidates… as many candidates as there are NBA teams seems a little excessive. Unless you’re like, hey, can I see the spreadsheet? If it’s like a “binders full of coaches,” \[situation\], that’s one thing.
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> **Conor:** They’re leaving no stone unturned, Brandon!
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> **Brandon:** How large are these stones? They like little pebbles?
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> **Conor:** Very small stones.
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> **Brandon:** If what Joe Cronin said during exit interviews about hey, the reason why we have all these cost savings - which maybe we’ll talk about during the segment on the playoffs - these cost savings are because we’re going to put a better product on the floor. Well, guess what everybody? Your coach is going to be the first test of that, because what you pay your coach absolutely impacts what is on the floor. So, we’ll just see if that happens.
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> **Conor:** Joe Cronin said at the exit interviews - because the question got brought up, are you going to pay the right amount with all these reports coming out that they’re going to cheap out - and Joe Cronin said, “If it is a first-time head coach who we don’t have a big market for or a market we’re competing against, it’s one number,” AKA very cheap. “If it’s a big-time head coach, it’ll be a higher number.” Which like, no duh, but are they really going to do that?
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> **Brandon:** You know what that argument sounds to me a little bit like, Conor? If it’s a good coach, we’ll pay a lot. If it’s not a good coach, we’ll not pay a lot. It sounds a lot, like, “yeah, man, if I’m going to buy a 2024 Volvo V60 Polestar, I’ll pay plenty. But if I’m going to buy a 1991 Toyota Celica, then I’m not going to pay that much.” And it’s like, Tom Dundon, we know that you want the ‘91 Celica. So don’t even play.