Never really imagined super-producer E. Paul Baca and I would get 100 episodes out of this podcast… never thought I might want to do 100 or 1,000 more… but here we are, and all of this is true.

So with the landmark number arriving, I thought: Who would I like as the guest for Episode 100?

Well, the guy I covered as a UCLA walk-on back in the mid-1990s, who I knew very well when he was a young agent representing many NBA stars, and who seems to have done all right for himself since coming back to his hometown team to help run the Warriors.

Yeah, that would be general manager Bob Myers, who recently had his contract extended and was given the new title of president of basketball operations.

I talked with Bob about the Warriors’ preseason so far, about Kevin Durant’s assimilation with the team, about Steve Kerr feeling much better now than he did at this point last season (when he had to leave the team until mid-season) and about the way this team’s roster has been assembled.

We also talked at length about Myers’ second trip to The Hamptons last summer–the first one was with Joe Lacob, Steve Kerr, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala to recruit Durant.

The second one was Myers alone a few days later, after Durant had agreed to sign with the Warriors but before he officially could ink the deal… when Myers just wanted some more time to get to know Durant and those closest to him.

I’ve never heard a GM doing this before and as I told Myers, I can think of several that would never, ever do this.

But I think it was typical of Myers to do this–to want to connect with a superstar who was making such a huge decision, to want to be there in the limbo period while the NBA universe was going crazy about this, and to just want to spend time with somebody who is going to be so important to the Warriors.

That’s a guy worth having on my podcast at any time, but especially for episode #100.