00:00Last night was a great night at Bar 580.
00:03A lot of great people showed up.
00:05Deep into the Western Conference Finals,
00:08Game 7, talking about what's going to happen.
00:11Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I believe,
00:13starts Wednesday, June 3rd.
00:15Free agency opens up June 30th.
00:18And from talking to so many people,
00:20like the biggest question for Celtics fans,
00:24and I think we're all waiting to hear from
00:27or see what happens,
00:28is obviously the Jalen Brown situation.
00:31This offseason is going to be major for Brad Stevens, I think.
00:35I don't know when it's going to happen
00:36or if it's going to happen.
00:38It's one of them things that, you know,
00:41I always say it all the time,
00:42when I'm fascinated with something
00:43and I cannot wait to see what is going to happen
00:46with Jalen Brown,
00:47because I feel like it was always like more,
00:51no way you trade the guy.
00:53Then it got a little bit more like, maybe you do.
00:56Then it was like 50-50,
00:58and now I'm kind of like,
01:00from talking to a lot of people,
01:02it's almost like 65% of like,
01:05you've got to trade him.
01:06And I don't know,
01:08this is why this offseason for Brad Stevens
01:10is going to be so critical.
01:12Like, if somebody,
01:13when people ask me,
01:14what do you,
01:14I don't even know what is going to happen,
01:16but if Jalen Brown,
01:18excuse me,
01:19comes back,
01:20how does the dynamic look next year?
01:23Is it something that,
01:24you know,
01:25would Jalen have an amazing year this year?
01:27Is it something...
01:28Not only amazing,
01:30but it was his favorite season.
01:31It was his favorite year,
01:32but I'm not even going to go there.
01:33But just...
01:33State your source.
01:35Just his performance on the court
01:38has showed,
01:39you know,
01:40himself,
01:41the rest of the league,
01:42that he can be the guy.
01:44And we know he's like frustrated with his role,
01:48but how much can he take
01:49where he's in the shadow
01:51of Jason Tatum?
01:53When it just becomes,
01:54when it's more about,
01:55like,
01:56whose team is this?
01:57The direction of the team?
01:58Where are we going?
01:58So that's why I don't know
02:00when it's going to happen,
02:01Mago.
02:01Well,
02:01you and I were talking to a guy
02:03last night about this,
02:04and he was talking about Jalen Brown.
02:06And I don't know.
02:07I don't know.
02:08I haven't seen him yet this morning,
02:09but he said you could...
02:12Jalen Brown makes 50...
02:14What's he making a year?
02:15Like 52 or 53...
02:1854 or something along those lines.
02:19He said you could pay me
02:21$22 million a year,
02:23and I would be happy
02:24being the 7, 8, 9, 10,
02:26doesn't matter what it is.
02:27That's not the world we're living in.
02:29Whatever that guy does to work,
02:30he will not take less
02:31than the buddy he works with.
02:32That's very nice for him.
02:34It's just the reality of the young man.
02:35But I don't think he's ever
02:36going to be happy
02:38unless he is the main dude.
02:41Like, I think that's the problem.
02:42I don't know if he's ever
02:43going to be happy.
02:44Ever.
02:45Yeah.
02:45Like, Kevin Durant is a guy
02:46that, like,
02:47you create freaking...
02:48What is it?
02:49The fake accounts?
02:50What are they called?
02:51The burners.
02:51Burners, yeah.
02:53You're a multiple MVP
02:54who's won multiple championships,
02:56and you're making
02:57burner Twitter accounts.
02:58Yeah.
02:58I think he's alone, right?
02:59Durant isn't married.
03:00He has no care.
03:00No, no, no.
03:01Durant's not married.
03:01Like, every video I see
03:02with Jalen Brown,
03:03he's just him and his Twitch.
03:04Like, I don't know.
03:06I think Jalen will...
03:08Like, I think Jalen will be happy
03:10if it's his team.
03:11Like, I don't think he's like
03:12Kevin Durant
03:13where he's creating
03:14burner accounts.
03:15He'll go right to his Twitch.
03:17He has no problem.
03:18He'll say,
03:19state your sources, Stephen A.
03:20He's got no problem at...
03:22Oh, Stephen A.
03:22He's in a hot one right now.
03:23He's trying his best
03:24to hold on.
03:25He is drowning in the world
03:26after Kevin Hart
03:27roasted him on
03:28the people,
03:30the most racist people
03:31that he would put
03:32on Mount Rushmore.
03:33Oh, he said Stephen A.
03:35Oh, no way.
03:36Oh, yeah.
03:37Stephen A.
03:37was the only black dude on it.
03:39Oh, he was?
03:40Oh, the guy that hates
03:41black people the most,
03:42like the Mount Rushmore.
03:43And Stephen A.
03:44Who else was on there?
03:45Oh, man.
03:46Anybody I used to work with.
03:50He was the only brother
03:51on the people
03:52that hate black people.
03:55Oh, man.
03:56He is in his feelings now.
03:58What do you think,
04:00because you're the NBA insider here,
04:02what do you think
04:03about what they're going to do
04:04when it comes to
04:05trying to stop tanking?
04:06Well, the new proposal.
04:08Yeah.
04:10It's, to me,
04:11focusing on a part of the league
04:13that you're never really
04:14going to fix
04:15and isn't the part
04:16that pisses people off the most.
04:18Like, the stuff that I think,
04:19and I may be wrong,
04:20I'm happy to hear from anybody,
04:21the stuff that turns fans off
04:23from the league right now
04:24honestly is the style
04:26of the shooting,
04:27the three-point shot,
04:28I hear it all the time,
04:29people don't like
04:30that it is so dominant
04:31in the game,
04:32and the load management.
04:34And those things
04:35don't really have to do
04:36with tanking.
04:37Everybody knows basketball
04:38is the one sport
04:39where if you get the guy,
04:41it can totally change
04:42your franchise.
04:43Look at Wemby right now.
04:44Right.
04:44Like, everybody gets that,
04:45and so they can do
04:46everything they can
04:47to try to flatten out
04:48the odds,
04:48to try to tell teams,
04:50hey, you don't want to be
04:51one of the bottom three teams
04:52in the league
04:52because you're actually
04:53going to be penalized for that.
04:54It's just going to make them
04:55suck a little bit less.
04:57Well, you know what I like,
04:58Megan?
04:58I can't remember
04:59if I brought it up
05:00or somebody else brought it up.
05:01I probably brought it up
05:02because it was a great idea.
05:03There you go.
05:04They have,
05:05during now,
05:05in the NBA,
05:06we have that stupid
05:07in-season tournament,
05:09right,
05:09where we play for that
05:10up or whatever it is.
05:11I don't understand
05:13why they can't have that
05:14at the end of the season
05:15for the bottom teams.
05:17I believe it's like
05:18the bottom 10 teams
05:19that don't make the postseason.
05:20Like a tennis backdraw?
05:22Well, I don't know
05:23what a tennis backdraw is.
05:24Like the loser tournament.
05:25Yeah, like the loser tournament.
05:26And the team that wins
05:27the loser tournament
05:29gets the best chances
05:31of getting
05:32the number one overall pick.
05:34The team that comes
05:34in second, third,
05:35you know,
05:36and you go
05:36and you do it like that.
05:38So now that tournament
05:39would make those loser teams
05:40have to play hard
05:42to win that tournament
05:43at the end of the season
05:45and get the best odds
05:46of getting the number one
05:47overall pick.
05:48That would make
05:48the tournament better,
05:49but it still doesn't do,
05:51you know,
05:51what they're going to do now
05:52is essentially penal.
05:54If you end up
05:55in the bottom three,
05:56they're adding two teams.
05:58If you end up
05:59in the bottom three,
06:00you're penalized for it.
06:02I like it.
06:02So theoretically,
06:03that should stop
06:04some of the tanking.
06:05Also, I think
06:06you bring up
06:07load management.
06:08That's a part
06:08of the tank.
06:09It is a part of the...
06:10Sometimes.
06:11It is sometimes,
06:11but it's not the main reason
06:13for it, right?
06:14The main reason
06:15is because people
06:15want to save their guys
06:16for the playoffs.
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