00:00Jalen Brown moving into the top 10 all-time scorers for the Celtics.
00:03Tatum and Brown are 9-10.
00:04Yeah, it's crazy.
00:05All time.
00:05Oh, yeah.
00:06And it's not some, you know, schlubby organization.
00:08Decent franchise.
00:09They've had some success.
00:10They've had some good players.
00:11Jalen starts fantastic last night.
00:12He probably could have had 40 or 50 the way he was going.
00:1618 to start that game out after a monster fourth quarter the other night.
00:19I think he had 23 at half off the top of my head.
00:22So another strong performance out of Jalen Brown.
00:25And we talked about this, Keith.
00:26Are the Celtics going to keep letting Jalen be the lead dog?
00:30Yeah.
00:31They were again last night.
00:32And Jalen keeps rolling.
00:33Yeah, it's pretty clear.
00:35And I think he's more than up for the challenge.
00:37He's having a great season.
00:38I would say, I would spin it this way.
00:40Maybe the MVP of the Eastern Conference.
00:42Right?
00:42A lot of MVP conversation.
00:43If this was baseball, he had a real chance to win it.
00:46Because they, for some reason, give out two MVP awards.
00:48Which they shouldn't.
00:49Because they all play each other and they have the same rules.
00:51The Eastern Conference MVP.
00:53I like it.
00:53Because the West is loaded.
00:54With sort of the big three out West with SGA and Jokic and Wemby.
00:58But I think Jalen Brown has sort of solidified to me.
01:02First team All-NBA.
01:03His team has been a real surprise.
01:06And then Tatum has come back and has really sort of fit in.
01:09And that was what the question was going to be.
01:11It's like, is Tatum going to be the one okay sort of sacrificing?
01:14Because Brown's been there for 60 plus games.
01:16He's been the guy for this season.
01:18And that has continued.
01:20And Jason Tatum has stepped right in.
01:22And been a better sort of second player than anybody else has in the Eastern Conference.
01:27Has sort of, as we've mentioned before, sort of slotted in guys like Derek White.
01:32And Pritchard.
01:33And Hauser.
01:34Everybody else can kind of get bumped down one spot.
01:36Where they're all more effective.
01:37And all probably more comfortable.
01:39So, yeah.
01:40This is probably the best we could have hoped for.
01:43I know they lost to the Spurs.
01:44And Brown got thrown out.
01:44And then they lost to the Thunder.
01:45So, it's not like they're just undefeated since he's come back.
01:48But just the way the team looks.
01:50And the way that specifically Brown and Tatum are playing together right now.
01:54I don't think anybody could have asked for any more.
01:55So, let's see.
01:56You
