Steve Mills suggested signing Joakim Noah to a four-year, $72 million contract during the 2016 offseason wasn't something he was not in favor of as general manager under Phil Jackson.

Noah recently gave an interview in which he blamed partying too much in New York for one of the reasons his tenure with the team lasted one and a half seasons.

“Obviously I’m disappointed it worked out the way it worked out," said Mills. "I don’t know that. Had it been just my decision I don’t know that I would have signed him. There was a reason why we thought that this was the best thing for the culture and the environment of our team. When the speculation was why don’t we handle Joakim one way and we decided to handle it a different way, there was a reason why we handled it the way we decided to handle it.”