This is not a name-dropping thing, but it’s a story that goes with the job.
When the Cavaliers were returning home from Toronto after winning the East in 2016 and everyone and everything was going through airport security – including having to put the Eastern Conference Championship trophy into a grey bin and on the conveyor belt – you couldn’t help but notice how the team gravitated to Channing Frye, having just gone 2-for-3 from three-point range in the deciding Game 6; 14-of-24 from deep in the series.
As we passed through security, I said to an unnamed former member of the Cavs front office: “Channing was the perfect pick-up” at the trade deadline.