“I like music documentaries,” Presti began. “For those of you who haven’t seen the new George Harrison documentary, it’s fascinating. It’s a long watch, but well worth it.”

It all began harmlessly enough when Presti was asked what he did during the offseason to “decompress” after OKC advanced to last season’s NBA Finals and lost 4-1 to the Miami Heat.

The habitually tight-lipped Presti spent 15 minutes of his hour-long interview session freely sharing his thoughts on music, movies, television, Jay-Z, James Brown, Woody Guthrie, plus Bob Dylan’s recent performance at the Zoo Amphitheater.

An accomplished drummer, Presti produced three music CDs where all proceeds benefitted the Extra Ordinary Needs Fund at Children’s Hospital in Boston, which is where Presti attended Emerson College.

“The other thing I’m kind of hooked on now is VH1 has this series called ‘Classic Albums.’ I’m totally hooked,” Presti continued. “If you know where to find the actual set of them, let me know because I can’t find them. I do most of my viewing on YouTube. It basically takes you back to how albums were made – like Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’; Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ that was really good; Steely Dan’s ‘Aja.’ You go back through the producer and you hear what they were thinking, and artists themselves what they were thinking when they were doing the actual recording. It’s fascinating. It’s really, really good.”

When the topic kept veering away from basketball, Presti smiled and joked: “Everybody knows I’m like really open about all this stuff. You’re catching me on a good day.”

Would you like to be a producer in your second job?

“I don’t know. I just got hooked on it. I just think the creative process is really fascinating and to see people working through that, and a lot of times how spontaneous things are. These historical songs, artistic creations, like somebody sitting in the studio and he just decides at the last minute ‘What if we just put this on there?’ and it becomes that piece that just ties it all together.”