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WHAT just happened?! WE NEED your instant reaction to the report- Jaylen Brown traded to Philadelphia, for Paul George and picks.
Curts: "It's rare that I'm shocked" Thoughts on the deal? More to come?
Wiggy: "THIS IS THE WORST TRADE IN SPORTS!" END OF THE JAYS!
Almost a decade together... 1 title. Expect more? Thoughts on the Tatum/Brown era together?
Greg: "Shocking" "Paul George, what is he 90?"
Curts: "It's rare that I'm shocked" Thoughts on the deal? More to come?
Wiggy: "THIS IS THE WORST TRADE IN SPORTS!" END OF THE JAYS!
Almost a decade together... 1 title. Expect more? Thoughts on the Tatum/Brown era together?
Greg: "Shocking" "Paul George, what is he 90?"
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00:00yeah shocking shocking unpleasant yeah you were bummed out about it you're like the Jalen Brown
00:07era is over it hasn't it truly hasn't sunk in for me because this duo you had them together for
00:14nine
00:14years I just thought there was going to be more I really thought we were getting more I thought
00:18there was going to be another trip to the finals especially when the Giannis trade didn't go through
00:22and they immediately pivot I was like they're asking for four first rounders by the way what
00:27happened to that the four first round picks that they were looking for and I was like okay so
00:31they're gonna have to find a way to keep Jalen happy for at least another year what you could have
00:35done
00:35what you could have done this all goes back and this is why I said this is it this is
00:40Brad Stevens
00:40idiot moment that this is the worst trade my opinion in sports and in sports history sports
00:48in sports you're talking about a guy who finished sixth in the MVP voting who's what 28 or 29 years
00:56old was a finals MVP and you first off don't want to give up Hugo Gonzalez and Shireman to get
01:06Giannis
01:06which I'm like for that's the moron first moronic move but do you believe that now you saw the return
01:12they got obviously that was an accurate report no I believe that because I think he hit the panic
01:17button and said all right we have to move Jalen Brown and then basically took whatever somebody threw at
01:24him because there's no you can't explain this to me if you're Brad Johnson that you Brad
01:29Brad Stevens I did play with Brad Johnson yeah I did play with Brad Johnson he also can't explain it
01:36no no nobody can explain I haven't seen anybody in the basketball world that said the Celtics did a
01:41good job well we will find out this morning if there are people who believe that and so we're
01:47gonna have guest leads this morning I want to thank Barton and Gray Mariners Club for getting me
01:51over here on a beautiful boat on a beautiful beautiful morning here in Newport at the Lobster
01:57Bar this is what do you think Greg are you shocked were you shocked like the rest of us uh
02:02yeah I I
02:03mean I was Paul George is what is he 90 yeah I mean I I uh I'm surprised he's still
02:09able to play but
02:09um I don't I listen I I you were unable to get Giannis and then you basically sat there and
02:17I guess
02:18panicked and and oh yeah like the word and and you're like all right we're gonna unload uh we're
02:25gonna unload Jalen Brown for whatever is available and that was it I and also you guys probably talked
02:30about this in your own division yeah you made it you made a team better I don't beat you in
02:36the
02:36playoffs yes the team the very team that beat you in the playoffs you now you now go uh not
02:43only do
02:43they have Tyrese Maxey and Edgecombe but you gave them Jalen Brown and we already know how Jalen Brown
02:49is like the the chip that he carries on his shoulder the way that how do you think that game's
02:54gonna look
02:55when you're going all right we got a going into it last year we thought like all right what's this
03:01team gonna look like now we got a Jason Tatum team where Jason Tatum is basically you know still
03:06only gonna be a couple uh months removed from coming back from his Achilles when the season starts up or
03:12a few months and then he's gonna be knocking the rest off you're gonna have an old man Paul George
03:17who's probably gonna miss a handful of games just because of load management and then you better hope
03:22if you're Brad Stevens that Hugo and Shireman ball out because I believe and I'm gonna die on this
03:29hill that the reason why we didn't get Giannis is because he didn't want to throw those two in no
03:34that's it's so then why you make this stupid trade I would have Jamal because honestly I there's a lot
03:39of people who are like Courtney maybe Meggo who are Jalen Brown stands who won't want to hear it
03:46but they wanted to get rid of him they were it it had reached a point where they didn't want
03:51him on
03:51the team anymore in the day but that's stupid though you're not you're not making your team better
03:55Brad Stevens told us at the end of the season he said it's all about winning championships and what
04:01we need to do to make the team better so if a guy has a little bit of an issue
04:05Jalen wasn't you know
04:06he wasn't vocal like I wanted to be traded I wanted to be traded so if you would have brought
04:10him back
04:11Jalen would have played and maybe you would have had to deal with a little bit of you know Rocky
04:15Wise and maybe maybe once the Giannis stuff started maybe he did go to them and say forget about it
04:20this
04:21is it can we stop the nonsense the revisionist history that's out there that Jalen never
04:25requested a trade he was literally liking posts saying he should leave Boston and go to a place
04:31that respects him yeah that's true Gary Washburn wrote it is that the same as requesting a trade
04:36it's semantics Meggo obviously he didn't want to be here if I hope that if I liked something on
04:42social media it wouldn't be equivalent to me like asking for a contract it's the manner in which
04:46these people communicate it's that generation like to me he was doing everything he could
04:51outside of having a press conference with a sign that says I want out but do you think if they
04:55would have said hey listen we're not we're not going to be able to trade you this year we need
04:58you to come back would he have come back I don't know I also think that yes or no yes
05:04I believe he
05:05was not going to play in the role that he had as you stated several times so he would have
05:09sat out
05:10it would have been a major issue yes he would have sat out he would have demanded a trade just
05:12the
05:13reason he's not a buck right now but the other thing that I would say is we're forgetting the
05:16biggest part of this he has been the silent leader of this trade okay the person they acquire I'm not
05:24my opinion Gary Washburn the best Boston Celtics reporter in the in the city outside of Meggo he
05:30was on Gary's much better Boston Sports Tonight on NBC Sports Boston last night uh-huh and he said
05:36Paul George and one player on the Celtics are really close who's that Jason Tatum okay Jason Tatum
05:44got a guy he likes he respects right who has publicly supported him both for the MVP and his
05:52recovery from his from his injury and Jason Tatum's silence is the loudest noise in this entire
06:00story you know who Jason Tatum is really really close with Joel Embiid so you could have got him
06:07instead of Paul George okay I don't think they're trading you Joel Embiid I don't know but you're
06:12missing the point you're missing the point you're you're staring us down a lane where the reason why
06:16they got Paul George no no no no Jason Tatum was like yo get me Paul George the reason why
06:21the reason
06:21why Jalen Brown's not here not the reason why all those other the reason why Jalen Brown is not here
06:25is because Jason Tatum is your franchise and he didn't want to deal with this anymore that's it
06:31and you have an owner that's cost cutting so so now it now we're saying Jason well it's not my
06:36opinion Gary Washburn had said this last night yeah he was saying about how Jason Tatum is behind
06:40this Jason Tatum's good friend Derek White's still on the team Jason Tatum's coach Joe Mazzula's
06:44on the team so let me get this right Washburn the reason why we have old man Paul George and
06:51we've
06:51got rid of Jalen Brown is because Jason Tatum went to Brad Stevens and said hey listen I'm tired of
06:58Brown and all the success that he's taking away from me in the spotlight and twitching and all
07:04this other stuff get his ass out of here I need my boy Paul George I don't think it's the
07:09spotlight
07:09I think he's just tired of Jalen Brown tired of all that that world the all the stuff that gets
07:13what
07:14what what is what is Jalen Brown actually do we've talked about it for months yeah but that that that
07:20is like affecting Jason Tatum unfortunately he likely will never answer that question no I know but
07:25what's your opinion on what he does Jason Tatum maybe he didn't like the fact that he was out
07:31all season and Jalen Brown said uh as they choked away the first round of the playoffs that that was
07:36his favorite season maybe he didn't like that oh so that was the straw that broke the camel's back
07:40and it was my favorite year of my basketball career he also said and I feel like this is important
07:46to
07:46reiterate Jalen Brown at the podium after the loss that a big part of the reason why they lost was
07:51their best player wasn't on the floor yeah and Jason Tatum yeah right I mean listen I'm not giving
07:57any excuses I'm not trying to move the goal points I'm not I'm not veering into another lane this was
08:02Brad Stevens being a moron well being an idiot in this situation let me let me when it comes down
08:08to
08:08you know what hitting the panic button and going we got to get Jalen Brown out of here and we'll
08:13take
08:13whatever anybody gives us that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen well if there wasn't an issue
08:19why did he have to do a deal at all like why why not I think that's fine not no
08:24but why not just
08:25keep Jalen Brown if everything was fine that's what I don't understand that's why I'm like another
08:29shoe has to drop on one side or the other whether it's another deal or whether it's more information
08:34about what was going on behind the scenes or how the Celtics actually view this player I listen if you
08:42wanted to move on from Jalen Brown because you feel like you had an opportunity to get a better player
08:47and that better player being Giannis or Katie whatever it is I have no issues with that if
08:51you feel like that's going to make the team better right and maybe kind of get away from like whose
08:56team is it the tug and the pull of that I got no problem with that but you yourself said
09:01that this
09:02was not going to be possible to run back you said it several times I said that Jalen Brown was
09:07not
09:07going to be the Robin again he was not going to accept that but I said that Jalen Brown doesn't
09:13seem
09:13like the type of dude where if you said hey we got to run this back for one more year
09:17he's going
09:18to be like you know take his ball and go home be like no I'm not playing I'm not playing
09:22I think he
09:22would have went out there he would have played he was still did his twitch thing he would have still
09:26went out there and gave you 110 percent night in and night out do you think the team would be
09:29functional I think the team would be functional because you had issues in the past right you had
09:34the the the never to this degree never to the point where they were they could have got a deal
09:40done if not for X like never they had they had the KD deal on that was no but that
09:46was at the time
09:47when you remember the reporting it was like oh they were interested in KD and Jalen Brown there was
09:52they never got to the point where they were gonna sign a deal and Jalen Brown was gonna be gone
09:58that this is the first time that it was more speculative yes all right and so if you want to
10:02go that
10:03even if you go that route there's Jalen Brown does not like for me there was nothing he could do
10:09he's
10:09under contract for three more years so there was nothing it's not like the world of the NFL when
10:14have you seen an NBA player sit out because they were unhappy when have you seen an NBA player force
10:19his way to another team it happens like every day that's because the team basically gets to a point
10:25where they're like all right we got to just throw our hand in here you didn't have to do that
10:29there are
10:29probably a lot of people who feel the same way you do feel the same way Meggo does people who
10:35are
10:35angry about it and we could talk about that this morning I would do a quick poll here in Newport
10:39so
10:40I'll say uh we'll do it twice here so uh are you happy that Jalen Brown is gone if so
10:48make a little
10:49bit of noise here this morning wow that's more than I expected right are you sad and upset that Jalen
10:55Brown
10:56is gone okay
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