00:00What has the Celtics media called this season from day one?
00:03Jimmy, what has Sean Grandy called this from day one?
00:05Gap year.
00:06Gap year.
00:07So that's, the organization's number one goal this year was getting under the tax.
00:13Okay, that's just, it's obvious.
00:15That's what it was.
00:16It was getting under the aprons, but more importantly here, the tax.
00:20So, and now they're going to have to do it again.
00:23Remember, you have to do it two years to get out of the repeater.
00:25So they're doing, this is coming again.
00:28But the number one goal is to get out of the tax.
00:30So the number one goal wasn't to win.
00:32Now they're second in the East all of a sudden here in December.
00:35Jalen Brown is playing at an MVP level.
00:36It's like, oh my goodness.
00:38They're playing too well.
00:40And so what do they do?
00:43You know, from day one, they were probably leery of Tatum coming back.
00:46Because as a gap year, why do we need you to come back and risk injury or coming back too
00:50soon if this is a gap year?
00:51We don't intend to win this year.
00:53So take your time.
00:54We're going to shed some money.
00:57And, of course, because our fans and media are so effing soft, we can sell them anything.
01:02And that's the plan.
01:04And meanwhile, Brown's balling out.
01:07They're second in the East.
01:08And Jason Tatum looks like a scene from Rocky III with the rehab stuff, right?
01:13And ownership's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:15We've got to put the brakes on everything.
01:16So that is sort of the conspiracy theory that I was sort of dealing under.
01:22And maybe that's why he sounds ambivalent, because he knows he's not coming back, sort of to Murray's point.
01:27But that's all disappointing to me.
01:29This is a contending year.
01:31Jalen Brown has proved himself.
01:33If anyone had any doubt, he can be a number one.
01:35They can be a top of the conference team.
01:37So, what does that mean?
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