00:00And Bill Simmons is a guy, one of the guys lately, who have been talking about Giannis and the Celtics
00:08and what that may mean for Jalen Brown.
00:11And so this is what Bill Simmons said on his podcast a day ago.
00:16I thought Boston was out of this. I know Boston was out of this. And I was wondering if they
00:22were playing possum or not.
00:23I think they were playing little possum. I think they ran on Giannis. So I'm not recanting what I said
00:28before.
00:29I don't really know the reasons for it. Maybe they felt like Miami's offer is an offer they could beat.
00:35Maybe they want to drive the price of Miami's offer up and they don't actually have interest in him.
00:39But as I said over and over again, Giannis is pushing for Miami or Boston.
00:43Those are the two locations and really wants to end up in Boston because it would have the best chance
00:48to win a title.
00:49And I think Boston is not ruling out the idea, is my intel. And in general, I'm prepared for anything
00:55of Boston now.
00:56I wonder if they're going to use this opportunity with the assets they have with the $27 million trade exception
01:02to completely change what this team looks like.
01:04So who knows? They might not do anything, but I thought they were sitting out this Giannis thing and I
01:09no longer think that.
01:11Okay. Meggo, you're the Celtics stan on this radio program. You and Wiggy.
01:17Jalen Brown tweeted yesterday a bit of a passive-aggressive tweet. Can you share that with us, please?
01:23Jalen Brown tweeted yesterday morning, the neighbor's rice always smells better.
01:30It's a foodie tweet.
01:31Yeah. The neighbor's rice always smells better.
01:34God, that's he annoying.
01:37He's clearly hearing the Giannis talk and it has upset him.
01:42I have a question. Did Jason Tatum tweet, the neighbor's rice always smells better when he went on Atlanta radio
01:47and said he would like to play there?
01:49What?
01:50When Jalen Brown was on radio in Atlanta.
01:52Did Jason Tatum go on Twitter and say, oh, why does the neighbor's rice always smell better?
01:57No.
01:58Okay.
01:58No.
02:00Jalen Brown was certainly willing to do that, to throw that out there.
02:05I just, is he ever going to be happy here if he is playing with Jason Tatum?
02:13I think he has been at times, but I think with Jalen, like, my perspective is what makes him the
02:21competitor that he is, is finding that chip on his shoulder to drive him to improve every season.
02:28But with that comes a certain restlessness.
02:31Right.
02:31Right.
02:31And I think that's just who he's always going to be.
02:33I don't, I don't, maybe I'm really naive.
02:36You can call me super naive.
02:38I don't think it's, it's necessarily a Boston thing, a JT versus JB thing.
02:43I think it's just, that is what makes Jalen improve himself is to be saying, Wiggy, like, I'm not satisfied
02:50with this.
02:51Right.
02:51And I don't get the respect or whatever that I deserve.
02:55And that's what powers him to go forward.
02:57Right.
02:57I look at it like this.
02:58I'm all in on the honest thing.
03:00I'm all in on it.
03:01Even if it means that Jalen Brown is a part of the deal.
03:04Yes, because it changes the look, it changes the look of your basketball team.
03:08But what I will say is I understand where Jalen Brown is coming from.
03:12And if I'm the Boston Celtics, then I have to move on from Jalen.
03:17Because the one thing that you're, you're doing as an organization is you're not showing Jalen Brown any respect or
03:26loyalty when you're constantly, constantly going, oh, we're shopping them.
03:33We're interested in Giannis.
03:35We're interested in KD.
03:36And the piece that we're willing to move on from is Jalen Brown.
03:40Wiggy, who had, when have they, when have they said that since Kevin Durant was available?
03:47Mega, we've been talking about it for the last three or four months.
03:49This is Bill Simmons saying that he's tapped in and he believes this.
03:53This is not Adam Hammelsbach from the Globe that somebody locally is intentionally leading to and saying, put this out
03:59there because we want them to know the exact trade package.
04:02They are moving in silence.
04:04There was a report during the season from one of the basketball people that we talked about where they were
04:11hearing that the Celtics were going to be interested in getting Giannis in the offseason.
04:18You remember we talked about that?
04:19Yeah.
04:20That's a basketball insider.
04:22I don't think you can sit there and say that the Celtics are treating Jalen disrespectfully in any way.
04:27How many people would have known about this Bill Simmons trade talk if not for the sticky rice tweet?
04:32Probably not those who listen to the podcast and nobody else.
04:36This is Jalen Brown being the victim, always having to be the victim, saying, I want out.
04:42And the guy drops her off and she says, why are you dropping me off?
04:44Why would you want to stay with your wife when she's out every weekend looking for something better?
04:48So then why is he unhappy about it?
04:51That's human nature.
04:52What are you talking about?
04:54Listen, if you were married to somebody.
04:56He said he wants to be the guy.
04:58And I get it.
04:59But if you, and that's what he says.
05:00No, no, yes or no.
05:01He said he would.
05:01Okay, is there another guy here?
05:03Do you like living in people's shadows?
05:05Because that's what.
05:06Right, you're making my point.
05:07He doesn't want to be in a shadow.
05:08No, no, and I'm not saying the reason why it all started, you went and you said, oh, I am
05:17choosing you.
05:18Right.
05:19And we all agree, right?
05:19Tatum's better?
05:20No, but I'm just saying Jalen's point.
05:24They went and said, we are choosing you.
05:26I am choosing you to be my wife.
05:29You are the one.
05:30Right.
05:30And then not even a year later, you go, hmm, I think I like this other one.
05:37And you go out and you draft another guy at this, basically the same position with the same overall pick
05:46in Jason Tatum.
05:47And then you have two guys here and you're like, all right, we told the first guy this, but now
05:51the second guy looks better.
05:54He's more attractive.
05:54Right, and in your analogy, Jalen Brown does not want to be a part of a thruple.
06:00No, especially when he's in the thruple and he's basically the kickstander.
06:08Okay, I'm working this out visually.
06:09He's the side dude in the thruple.
06:12There's the main dude and then the side dude.
06:14All right, so would you.
06:15It's like, go pick us up some bagels.
06:21So you would do this deal, though.
06:22I would because do you think it helps the organization when we know how competitive and we know how sensitive
06:31Jalen Brown is?
06:33Do you think it helps the organization if they don't now do this deal and he knows at every point
06:38they're trying to move me?
06:39There's a lot of Celtics fans, I think, who don't want to move off from Jalen Brown because you –
06:45and you're one of them.
06:46I am.
06:47Are you guys – do you guys want him to move off of Jalen Brown?
06:53There's a very loud proponent for trading Jalen Brown at the front.
06:59It's not just Jalen Brown.
06:59Would you trade Jalen Brown for Giannis?
07:03No, I think.
07:04I feel like we're in Parliament.
07:05Yeah, no.
07:07Somebody's going to start banging a cane.
07:09Right.
07:09See, there's two different things to this, right?
07:12What makes your basketball team better, keeping Jalen Brown or getting Giannis?
07:19Keeping Jalen Brown, I think, and moving other pieces.
07:23Okay.
07:23So I would disagree with you on that part because it's two.
07:27You already know Jalen is very disappointed or he feels a certain way because of the whispers of him always.
07:37And now you know him going into the season, he's not now taking a backseat for Jason Tatum.
07:43So you're going to have two guys that are alphas and they're going to have to split that basketball in
07:48half.
07:49And your team has no inside presence.
07:51Where Giannis gives you an inside presence, he probably doesn't – he definitely doesn't come with, oh, the baggage of
07:59they're disrespecting me.
08:02He's somebody who wants to be here.
08:04Yes.
08:04He loves Joe Missoula.
08:05You're not so sure.
08:06You don't think Giannis comes with baggage?
08:08He comes with half his family here on set.
08:10So what, though?
08:11I mean, so what?
08:12You wouldn't – his brothers are going to be sitting out at the – name me the two players on
08:17the end of the bench that are holding it down right now.
08:19What are their names?
08:21Exactly.
08:22They're a long answer to pronounce.
08:22So, hey, listen, if that wants to be Giannis' brother, it's fine with me because they're never going to sniff
08:28a game.
08:28Excuse me.
08:29Speaking of holding down the bench, what did a gentleman from Stowe, Massachusetts, tell you last night when you met
08:39him?
08:40He said – and I was like, wow, how much did you pay this guy?
08:44He said you were actually a pretty good basketball player.
08:48Yes.
08:49Thank you very much.
08:50Yeah.
08:50John Tarnooser.
08:51Sammy, you were a stodder in high school, he said.
08:54Yes, he did.
08:54I saw you get his Venmo.
08:56Yes, he did.
08:56Yes, he did.
08:57Go ahead.
08:58Yeah, I got to get Eddie on this.
09:00Eddie, good morning.
09:02Hey, good morning, guys.
09:03How are you?
09:04What's up?
09:05I am a Jalen Brown fan, and I think he's just reached the point where he keeps hearing this talk,
09:12keeps hearing this talk.
09:13He says, you know what?
09:14I'm going to make a decision for you.
09:15He put his house up for sale.
09:17We've seen the loss of Jalen Brown.
09:19That's not his house.
09:20He hasn't lived there in years, respectfully.
09:23Okay, well, I'll give you that.
09:26So defensive.
09:26I'm just correcting the facts here.
09:29That's his butlers.
09:30You love Jalen Brown.
09:31Yeah.
09:32Eddie, so you'd make the trade.
09:36I'd make the trade, and I think it would be best for the team, and I think it'd be best
09:40for Brown.
09:41I love Brown.
09:42I wouldn't want to get rid of him.
09:43I think this guy shows up, and he comes to play every single game.
09:47I guess the problem is Tatum.
09:49Yeah.
09:50All right.
09:50Thank you, Eddie.
09:51If you guys had to ask, and you had to guess right now, does Brad Stevens want to have Jalen
09:55Brown on the team next year?
09:57Yes.
09:58No chance.
09:59No.
10:00Come on, Vago.
10:01I can't wait until you get to the, they said it, because it tells you exactly how the Celtics feel
10:08about people that are on this basketball team.
10:12Okay.
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