Carmelo Anthony: And Sam understood that. And he worked with us, and he gave us our own marks. Hey Melo, here’s you’re mark. Russ, we need you to do this, boom. In order for us to be successful, PG, here’s your mark. Steven Adams, here’s your mark, Jerami Grant, Ray Felton, he had his mark. These are marks that we had to hit and we had to hit, and if we weren’t hitting the marks then we knew we weren’t doing our best. And if we didn’t hit our marks, Billy Donovan wasn’t coming talking to us, it was Sam. When he did that, I had a new found respect for Sam Presti on the business side, and to this day, Sam is sneaky cool. He has no ill intentions with any of this. He really cares about what is best for the player, and he really cares what the fuck is going on. I really wish more GMs and presidents had that type of energy when running an organization. -via Spotify / February 13, 2024
