Donovan Mitchell has said it. Rudy Gobert has said it. Now, in a most specific way, Gail Miller has said it, too.
Not a decade from now, but … now. Not now, as in right this second, not the here and now, but now, as in while we’re young; now, as in the next few seasons; now, as in, as George Allen once put it, the future is now.
And there are few sweeter words uttered by a professional sports team owner than those, especially when they come from both head and heart, when they come after an aggressive offseason like this one.