00:00during the break and it simply reads nothing is more predictable than a backpedaling green
00:07teamer and yes you heard that you heard that on this show moments ago i didn't have them getting
00:14much farther than the first round i never said that everybody made fun of me because i sat here
00:19and said the knicks and the pistons are a serious threat i did not foresee the sixers but i said
00:25that and everybody said the eastern conference is why don't it's completely the celtics everybody
00:31else sucks like i said that i was not one of those people i was one of those people check
00:36the tapes
00:36you can go back on odyssey app listen for yourself there you go no backpedaling over here they had no
00:42answer for joelle and bead and that's and i got to that i said i did sit here and say
00:48after game one
00:49it doesn't even matter if joelle and bead comes back it mattered a lot now it didn't matter in
00:53the next series for the sixers but it mattered against but it was i mean joelle and bead played
00:57well but maxi against you and that and you're the series against boss he shot 41 from three-point land
01:03against the next he shot 15 percent next defense next do you have anything to do with that uh no
01:09he
01:09was just missing shots what's the point of anything if it's just about who makes a shot what a boring
01:14thing no no i'm it's but it's it's more than that but when you're no not according to what you
01:18just
01:18said but when your star player doesn't perform at the level that you expect them to perform at i just
01:23missed his shots okay no but when he doesn't perform at their level then we criticize the
01:27star player like maxi he's the star player of that team that team goes the way he goes is maxi
01:33better
01:33than tatum or brown no no no so he's the third best player in the series right but your your
01:39star
01:39players weren't your your star players weren't able to outperform maxi in that series that's why
01:45they lost which is awful what's that in hindsight awful that they weren't able to do that yeah i mean
01:52when you hindsight when you look at it i think they lost to a team that just got swept by
01:56the
01:56next right i and i think that the sixes that was their nba finals against boston if the celtics beat
02:03the sixes in game seven they would have been overwhelming favorites against the knicks in the
02:06second round and that okay the celtics lost to i don't know if they would have been overwhelming
02:12overwhelming two to one at least no they were at the start of the playoffs no but they lost they
02:16lost to the knicks last year with a healthy and better team right but when the playoffs began
02:21the the celtics were the overwhelming favorites to win the east overwhelming i don't know what what
02:27were they yes yeah i don't i would i think if the in that knicks series i think the line
02:33and i don't
02:34know because i'm not a vegas person but i think if if the the sixes would have pushed them the
02:39game
02:39seven the way that the knicks were able to get through the first round against who the hell the
02:45knicks play in the first round it wasn't toronto the hawks the hawks yes the way the knicks were
02:50able to get through that series i think going into it there might be some vegas books that would
02:56have had the knicks as the favorite that was a tough series for the knicks against the hawks
03:01it was it was they were the hawks put up a fight early but then they win that series in
03:06five the
03:06knicks didn't go six uh they won it in five because they blew them out and the celtics at the
03:11right at
03:12the beginning before the playoffs began according to draft kings the favorite in the east at plus
03:16155 the knicks were plus 450 um since you bring up atlanta some reporting over the weekend that they
03:23were interested in jaylen brown at trade deadline time that was chris mannix who had that report
03:29right um would you could we then imagine that they still are probably yeah i mean i don't see why
03:35they wouldn't be if that if that report is accurate and mannix is hyper connected what was the report
03:41because this is very interesting where atlanta was just interested or where the celtics like okay
03:47atlanta what do you got no there was no reporting on the celtic side because this is why jaylen is
03:54okay um did he not say he wanted to he could see himself playing for atlanta oh yeah he said
04:02that
04:03so he's allowed to say that but they're never allowed to investigate what might be out there i mean
04:10yeah but that was well after the fact of trade rumors about jaylen you know and other places so
04:16he's like yeah i'm from atlanta you know i would love to this is exactly what it says um god
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04:21i wrote this week about the atlanta hawks this is chris mannix was talking saturday on an nbc peacock
04:27broadcast jaylen is a georgia native last offseason the celtics and hawks did have a brief conversation
04:32about jaylen brown it didn't really go anywhere the hawks were leery about the size of brown's contract
04:39uh which at the time was the richest contract in nba history they weren't really in a position
04:44to go all in celtics were not looking to give jaylen brown away either so it didn't go anywhere
04:48but there was a conversation yeah yeah and so i can see why they were leery about the size of
04:55the
04:55contract for the best two-way player in the world well atlanta was you know this is so there's like
05:00this that report from mannix said last offseason so that would have been before jaylen had the all nba
05:07performance that he had during the regular season this year which regardless of how in the world
05:12regardless how you feel about the playoffs you can't take that away from jaylen right but i think
05:15to your point going into the season people are like wait a second you're paying this guy 50 million and
05:21he's not even you know an all nba player he's a very talented player and i think there were some
05:26people
05:26that were a little skeptical about the contract but that's the that's where the nba was going and that
05:32was the price for a guy like jaylen brown my only point is everybody is like why is jaylen
05:38so upset or maybe not upset being the right word but why is he side eyeing the organization a little
05:44bit because the organization is constantly picking up the phone i mean the organization wiki is a fan
05:51of the celtics to always be looking to improve no they should but i'm just saying what i understand
05:56why he's upset if i'm dating somebody and that person is always entertaining other people you
06:03wouldn't be upset no if i'm making 70 million dollars all right maybe you and i are different
06:08we certainly are that would bother me yeah i and you're saying that all the time talk about a straw
06:13man
06:13yeah brad stevens is calling everybody every day watch jaylen watch jaylen watch jaylen you know the
06:18point that i'm making when i say there's been there's been two or three uh potential trade whispers
06:24rumors out there with jay there was the durant thing there was what else is there there was the
06:29durant thing there's been the yannis thing and now there's this thing with atlanta so there that's
06:35three of them that we know of but this report does say the celtics were not interested in giving jaylen
06:40away right but it's not well he doesn't want him to even pick up the phone like the phone rings
06:45in
06:45brad stevens office and he says nope not so so it might be somebody asking about jaylen brown not
06:50picking so we don't have call waiting what do you think would happen if somebody called and said
06:54hey brad we're interested in jason tatum you know what he'd say i'm sorry gotta go
06:59that's what happened in this exact situation with jaylen brown no there was a conversation is what
07:02manic said yeah that's a difference but i do think wigs that the rest of the nba knows that jaylen
07:09brown wants to be a number one yeah i know that so why wouldn't you call i'm not saying that
07:15you
07:15don't call and if you're the celtics you know jaylen hasn't always been the happiest here right
07:20he kind of wants it both ways right what's the way to handle this week if you're the celtics
07:25it's too late what's the saying the horse is out of the barn right that's it it's too late because
07:31once they once they said hey listen once brooklyn i believe it was brooklyn at the time was like
07:36all right we're willing to give you kevin durant for jaylen uh for jaylen brown and then the celtics
07:42said oh we're on board and brooklyn said oh but we want you to throw a mark and smart and
07:46the celtics
07:46said no that's when the horse left the barn for a guy like jaylen brown who was it who was
07:52somebody
07:52who's like you know he's got a chip on his shoulder and that's when it was like all right you
07:56really
07:57clearly like me but you like me like me to a certain extent in his mind um you like me
08:03but
08:03you're accepting dms from others bingo
08:05you're saying
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