00:00Jalen Brown hasn't asked for a trade.
00:01Jalen Brown was not looking for a trade.
00:03Jalen Brown didn't demand a trade.
00:04None of that was true?
00:06I can 100% confirm that based on somebody I spoke with
00:08that you know that I'm not going to say yesterday.
00:13Somebody extremely close to the situation.
00:14What do you want me to tell you?
00:15What do you want me to say?
00:16Nothing.
00:16You know it.
00:17I'm not going to tell you that didn't happen.
00:19Come on.
00:20It happened.
00:22He did not ask for the trade.
00:24A source, and I will add, let me add this,
00:26because I think people will reach and jump to a conclusion
00:29about what you just said.
00:30It's not Joe Missoula.
00:32No, it's not.
00:33No, it's not a coach.
00:35I want to make that clear.
00:36It's not a front office.
00:36It's not a coach or front office person.
00:38It's not a guy who wears a suit.
00:39But someone close to the situation has confirmed that
00:43and said no, he was not demanding a trade.
00:45That that was never a part of the conversation.
00:47And it's messy right now.
00:48And that the player is upset with how it all played out,
00:52which I think goes without saying.
00:54Anybody would be upset.
00:56But who would have this happen and then have them say,
00:59oh, I'm not upset at all.
01:00No, totally cool.
01:01So think about that, though.
01:02Think about it.
01:03You lose potentially your best player.
01:05Tatum is the best player on the team.
01:07So you lose that guy to a catastrophic type injury.
01:10And then say you play with this guy that was in question
01:13as to can he handle it.
01:15Everybody's calling it a gap year.
01:17And a guy goes out and busts his ass
01:18and says he's one of your teammates.
01:21And, like, you really love both guys.
01:24Like, you would go to bat for both guys.
01:27And then you see the way one of your friends is handled
01:29compared to the way another friend is handled.
01:32Not only would it probably upset Jalen Brown,
01:35it may upset another teammate or two.
01:38You know?
01:38Like, that's stuff you don't factor in.
01:41Like, you could sit here and say the Celtics mishandled this.
01:44Well, they kind of had to go through it.
01:46Then another team gets involved.
01:47Then it gets public.
01:49They don't like doing public things.
01:51And I don't blame them for it.
01:52That's why.
01:52Because things can get messy.
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