WEEI Afternoons: Will their be a shakeup to the Celtics starting lineup this offseason?

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00:00How does this injury impact you know guys decisions or the team's decision that's I don't know I mean

00:05if I'm the team it's like do I want to I don't know I'd want to keep as many pieces I could here

00:09just in case I mean you tell you said Kobe Bryant had an eight-month recovery if you look at you

00:14know that would mean Tatum would come back by the end of next this January right so he could

00:19theoretically he could still come and play mid-season at the end of next season so you know

00:24do you want to blow it up for that I mean I think one of the better examples is kind of what you

00:28said to me was you know Al Horford is Al Horford want to come back to a team that doesn't have JT

00:34and I don't know maybe you're the sixth seed or the fifth seed and the and and you gotta you know get

00:40to the finals through going through that way do I want to come back and do that maybe maybe not so

00:44I don't know I mean I honestly I have I have no idea Fitzy how this is going to fully impact the

00:51roster with the new ownership with this I just I have a hard time kind of understanding I mean does

00:57does the team think all of a sudden no no JT so we need to offload all these guys is that a good

01:04look for the Celtics I mean with Celtic City uh you know I think the Celtics are kind of feeling

01:08themselves right now went in the whole thing last year they're they're highlighted in HBO documentaries

01:13I feel like they kind of view themselves as kind of like the the franchise that does it the right way

01:20in the NBA and do you want to all of a sudden just start offloading because you don't think that you

01:26uh are any good now that JT is not there what what kind of message does that send to your fan base so

01:31I think they're in a precarious and tricky situation Fitzy yeah the New York Yankees the Los Angeles

01:37Lakers your marquee franchises of North America North American major sports don't just take years off they

01:44don't just purposely say unless of course you're the Red Sox you don't say bridge year you don't say

01:48rebuild year you always try to compete at the highest level you know you're just you're just

01:53trying to you're trying to find a way to stay up there or at least be near the level of excellence

01:59that you've established and the Celtics though they they've been in all-in mode and now when the

02:04centerpiece the fulcrum of your all-in extension is out for probably an entire season you have to weigh

02:12the consequences do you just do you actually take the unexpected sell-off year or do you find a way

02:18to stay in it