Geoff Petrie: Hello everyone and thank you for coming out this morning. I hope you are all having a good day so far and enjoying this beautiful, but very hot, west coast weather. Anyways, small talk aside, we are very excited today. Today is a very good day for the Sacramento Kings, and this is only the beginning of many great days to come in the near future for this organization.
Now before I get to the good stuff, we must address the bad. Obviously Mr. Cassell and Mr. Baker are no longer are a part of this franchise as they have found new homes in the NBA. They were not only great players for us, but also all around great people. We are sad to see them go, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors.
With that out the way, we can now address the exciting stuff. We had lots of cap room this off-season, and we saw great opportunity with that. We've brought in some new faces, and some familiar faces actually. We welcome with open arms Mr. Theo Ratliff, Mr. Terrrell Brandon, and we welcome back Mr. P.J. Brown. We are incredibly excited to add these players to our team, and we feel that we are growing closer and closer to winning a championship. While we have made the playoffs three years in a row, we're not satisfied yet. Our goal is to win a championship, and we whole heatedly believe that we are going to be in prime position to do so this year.
Now despite our enthusiasm about our most recent signings, we are not even close to being finished this off season. We have many moves planned going forward, and we plan on executing them fully. After we feel like our off season is over we will hold another press conference to announce our moves. Hopefully those moves include signing some of our players back, but we shall see. The NBA is a crazy place; you never know what will happen.
With all of that said, we will now take any questions regarding the signings we have made and the direction this team is headed towards in the near and distant future.