Last year, when Masai Ujiri sat at the same table and gave the same interview, he did so with a clear message to his players: we’re not doing this again—at least not in the same way. There were a lot of tells in that May 9th, 2017 interview that turned out to be true. Ujiri joked he wouldn’t say whether or not Kyle Lowry would be resigned, Patrick Patterson would be let go, if Serge Ibaka would be brought back or whether he would begin to transform the then current roster into a youthful, stable rotation.