The draft is two weeks from today. Free agency is less than three weeks away. I'll bet Stan Van Gundy looks back at where he was a year ago and likes where he's standing today a thousand times more.
He's got a lottery pick he didn't have last June, for one thing, and about twice as much cap space at his disposal. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't have either of those in 2014 if it meant he wouldn't have the lottery pick or more than $20 million in cap space this time around.
I say that for two reasons.