 Hello, James. What's up? How you guys doing? Good to see you. We got to ask you first. How's the hamstring? Great. Yeah? I'm fully healthy, and I'm excited. Last year was just very, very weird. You know, just everything that I went through individually in Houston, and then kind of not preparing my body and whatever. But didn't kind of get thrown in a fire and having to play a lot of minutes, which I'm usually built for. But I'm excited. I'm fresh, and I'm ready to go. I love the big smile on your face, because that just makes me think that a lot of wins are coming this team's way. James, about how long did it take for you to get the hamstring back in a place where you were able to ramp it up the way you normally would before the start of a training camp? I think it wasn't been two and a half months. You know, I use this entire summer for my body. My body and just kind of just top the bottom, make it strong, strong, and all the places that I need to be strong in to where I'm able to be durable, and I have to go through that again. Last year was very, very difficult for me with the injury, just because I've never experienced that throughout my entire career. So I love the hoop. I love to be out there, and that's one of the reasons why I was out there, what game, in the playoffs, you know, off a grade two hamstring, which usually it takes two and a half months to recover. So I don't like talking about it. It's over with. I'm healthy, and I'm ready to go. James, we're putting it behind us. We're putting it behind us because I know we're focusing on the injury, and of course, it affected the postseason. But throughout the course of the weird year you're talking about last year, there was stretches of brilliance. And for us to be able to watch how you so quickly integrated and acclimated yourself to this team, to what this team needed, what was that process like for you just in understanding how to orchestrate this offense in this group, and how you guys found so much success, especially through the course of the regular season? Easy. I've been doing it my entire career, or for the most part, to where I'm getting guys involved and making sure my teammates are better, putting them in the right position so they can be successful. And just ultimate communication, ultimate confidence that I try to feed and give to the guys because confidence is a huge factor in this game. So I'm excited that we have a full year with training camp, and we have some guys that are very experienced and been through deep, deep playoff runs that we added to the team. So we get a full year of greatness, and we just got to take it day by day. But I think for the guys, our approach and our mindset is we get better every single day. James, watching the league for a long time, watching you, we knew you influence winning, and you make players better, right? But when you see, you get to watch you play every day, it is a different experience. And I think we both found ourselves multiple times being like, my goodness, James Harden really elevates the team, he impacts winning. And we see you also impact guys' careers. You get them paid, right? That's what you do. And I haven't got anything. I want a dinner date or something. I'm getting guys to do it. Clint Cappella's got to get you something. 90 million. I ain't even took me to dinner not one time. But my question is, one of those guys I look at and I wonder, well, what could this partnership turn out being is Nick Claxton. When you see him, his ability in knowing your skillset, how you kind of enhance the pieces around you, what do you think about him and where you can elevate his game? He reminds me of Clint, but just with more skill, offensively. Young, listens, works extremely hard. He worked out a few times with me this summer, but he has it, and he gets it. And then he's around a great group of guys that are very, very experienced to where he has no choice but to fall in line. But you know, Skye's a limit for him. He works hard every single day. He gets it, and we've kind of built that connection. Last year, and this year, you'll see a lot, but he got a lot better. James, we're listening to you talk and talk about the complimentary players and other guys and even your skillset that you've been talking about, what you've done your entire life. But Sean Marks said this sitting here today earlier. He said it before that the one thing that really has stood out to him most was the leader that you are. And having not known you that well prior to coming. How integral does that become when you talk about some of these other players with the depth of the roster with so many different guys that the lineups may change to make sure that everyone is able to understand the ebbs and the flows through the season to accomplish that ultimate goal? My leadership has always been there. I just, I'm like kind of like quiet into myself for the most part. You know, I don't really open up a lot, but as far as when I'm getting around, you know, my teammates and I'm with them throughout the course of a year and I'm very passionate about basketball. So I feel like I have to open up and I have to be able to communicate whether it's showing or using my words. And something that I was doing in Houston, me and my trainer was reading a book on different ways of leaderships. And some players handle, you know, leaderships and the communication different. You know, you can't talk to players all the same way. There's different ways you have to approach different guys. And I begin to learn that, you know, throughout the course of my career, I think that's why I'm able to communicate and connect with so many guys because you just got to talk to guys different. And ultimately, if they feel that connection with you, you'll make them a better player on the court. Now we saw James, one of your running mates here, Kevin Durant already re-up for four more seasons after this year. Sean Marx has expressed confidence of you doing the same at some point in the near future. How do you look at the prospects of you signing a long-term extension here in Brooklyn? Of course, it's in my mind. And I've had multiple talks with Sean and Joe and, you know, I don't see myself anywhere else, honestly. You know, but I'm just taking it, you know, I'm taking my time with it. You know, there's no rush and, you know, I want to bring a championship to the city. So, you know, I'm here. I'm sure Nets fans are thrilled to hear that. We are as well, since we have the pleasure of watching you on a game-and-game-out basis. What stood out to you most about this organization, having been in Houston for as long as you had, what stood out most about this organization, about the group, about Brooklyn in general? Everybody's on the same page and everybody has the same goal from top to bottom. You know, it's about winning. It's about being competitive at the highest level. And it's about doing things the right way. You know, I've been here, what, not even a year. And the love and the support and that, you know, if not even from, you know, the coaches or what not, it's from the front office. They've shown me like, you know, we're different. And when we want to communicate, we want to make sure that everybody's involved and we want to do what's right at all times. So it's been great, you know, communication, like I keep harping on, it's very big for me. And they've been doing an unbelievable job of that. What was it like for you, James, getting back out on the floor with Kevin last season? After all those years apart, being reunited as teammates. Yeah, like a little kid. When you got somebody like that caliber, man, who just makes the game look so easy, you want to surround yourself with that. Now, you want to be on the court, you know, with that every single night. I came here, he got hurt for two and a half months. It was just, you know, it wasn't enough. So now, you know, we get to get enough. And then Kari's the same way. Like from afar, okay, we all know Kari's very, very good, very, very skilled. But seeing it night in and night out, it's like, all right, he's different. Like he's elite, can score from anywhere on the floor on anybody. So just being around that makes you excited and makes you want to come to work and get better every single day. Well, James, we are so excited to watch you and this team and start this season. We thank you so much for the time here. Glad to hear you're feeling healthy and enjoy training camp at San Diego. We'll see you soon enough. Appreciate it. Pleasure. Thank you.