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Did Jayson Tatum have input in the decision to trade Jaylen Brown?
Was Tatum 'in the loop' of discussions? Let's hear from President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens. What do you make of the comments?
Paul George- IN, Jaylen Brown- OUT- IS TEAM IMPROVED?!
Was Tatum 'in the loop' of discussions? Let's hear from President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens. What do you make of the comments?
Paul George- IN, Jaylen Brown- OUT- IS TEAM IMPROVED?!
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00:00to hearing some of what brad stevens had to say yesterday at his 40-minute press conference with
00:05bill chisholm who only spoke like two or three times in the entire 45 minutes which the fact
00:10that bill chisholm sat there for 20 minutes before speaking was the most stunning thing i think of
00:14that entire press conference did not say a word for 20 minutes um but let's hear uh brad talking
00:20about he was asked about jason tatum's involvement in all of this and immediately shot it down here's
00:25what brad stevens said brad uh what if any input did jason have on this decision and none after the
00:33year that jalen had did you think it might be challenging to kind of get them back on the
00:39same page they were on 2024 when you made the run to the championship to do uh i have a
00:45real
00:46hard fast rule i don't ask other guys about other guys because it's not i don't want to put them
00:53in
00:53that position um and so he had none um with regard to um you know coming back and being really
01:03good
01:03i think we could come back and be really good you know but i chose still being good with more
01:09optionality more optionality that word just keeps coming up right do you buy that jason tatum was not
01:15involved in any way shape or form well not involved in any way shape or form right where he was
01:21asked
01:22specifically did was jason involved in the decision it seemed like to move jalen brown and i i don't
01:29believe he was did he know what was probably going on and that they wanted to trade him and maybe
01:34who
01:34they could be eyeing i believe yes and i believe they tatum was probably thinking like okay i've been
01:41in talks they like they're telling me they're really trying to get yannis i think he was shocked when
01:46they traded him for what they ended up getting back i think he's probably like whoa wait a second
01:51brad you told me yannis now it's old man paul george what whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i didn't i
01:58wasn't ready
01:59for that that that's what i think he was shocked in the jeff teague situation was like whoa yannis i
02:06think
02:07he knew that they were really trying to make a run and that's who they were got that's who they
02:11probably
02:12told him that they were going after well especially if you think that tatum will be like the only max
02:17guy on the roster going forward it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense that you wouldn't involve
02:20your one max guy in at least the conversation keep him in the loop right what the hell you're
02:25going to do around him right and that's why i said i think it was probably more of he was
02:30in the loop
02:32about yannis but i only he was in the the loop when it came to paul george and the picks
02:37paul george and
02:37the picks yeah and now you know but then again we heard jalen brown said he didn't know that
02:43tatum wasn't playing until 45 minutes before the game or whatever the hell it was do they have a
02:48communication issue mego do you think over there if that's the case like is is there any kind of
02:53lack of communication or communication disconnect going on between the front office and the players
03:00or the coaches and the players well if you think there's a communication issue it's an intentional
03:04one from brad stevens because as you heard him there he said he doesn't and he reiterated this
03:09he doesn't want to put players in the position where they look like they're making decisions
03:14about their teammates because of course if something falls through or goes sideways and those guys have
03:21to play together right then it's serious animosity there like on top of him saying oh tatum doesn't
03:27need to lose sleep over this like i am it's it creates chemistry issues on the team if it's perceived
03:34that tatum saying like oh you got to move somebody well i'd rather you move jalen brown than derrick
03:39white and sam hauser like if that's the kind of stuff that's on the table i think that tatum
03:45certainly is clued in on the big picture stuff right so if they a year ago were looking at this
03:51and
03:51saying hey jason like we gave you this supermax this is what how we see the supermax contracts
03:58working out down the road like he's clued into that i buy that brad's not picking up the phone
04:04and talking to tatum every day and saying here's the latest on jalen and here's what what we're
04:09talking about for jalen and jalen's moving now and by the way this is what we're getting back
04:13like i don't know you can call me naive or that i'm just swallowing this i don't think that they're
04:18giving him a play-by-play on this no i agree on a play-by-play but saying jason do
04:22you approve of
04:23that yeah they're definitely not like with the free agents like signing mitchell robinson giving
04:26to me his k-day extension they don't care situation in particular but i do think brad let's keep it
04:31i
04:31think the thing with brad is brad i don't think he keeps it a buck with his players i think
04:38he kind
04:39of is like i'm only gonna i'm not especially the ones that need to be in the loop i'm not
04:46gonna give
04:46them all the information because even jalen brown was like i wasn't in the loop with all the information
04:51that brad was and i thought that it was a huge point that brad was trying to make yesterday
04:56that he felt that he did everything he could to keep jalen in the loop and like brad's never gonna
05:03get up there and say jalen shouldn't feel disrespected because he's not going to tell
05:07somebody how to feel but you could tell that that got to brad stevens that he was like i tried
05:13to talk
05:13him through every part of this but do you believe that i want to know what happened between i don't
05:18believe because something when some this is what i think happened okay i think they made the janice
05:23offer and when they went back to the drawing table because they didn't have an immediate plan b or
05:29pivot coming off of that offer not being accepted they started talking to teams and realizing that
05:36the return market wasn't going to be what they thought it was going to be for jalen brown and that
05:41puts them in a really difficult position where it's like so now we were all sitting here going so now
05:47what do you do if you're saying i want four first for jalen brown and everybody else is saying maybe
05:52two maybe like that's so here's what you do is you go back to the player you have a conversation
05:58with
05:58him and go you know be honest with him like all right the market isn't what we thought it was
06:04going
06:04to be for you so here's what we need to do we got to figure out how can we work
06:08it out this year
06:09right we probably are not going to give you jalen to two years at 140 but wiki he's on a
06:15super max
06:16contract and this is probably the season that he came off of looking the most like a super super max
06:21worthy player right so next year especially if he knows that he's basically a rental for the celtics
06:27and he's not totally tapped in or he's gonna take his foot off the gas though i don't think
06:33intentionally but like it could come on a player who knows that the team is not invested in him and
06:39he
06:39feels disrespected already that doesn't sound like it just that doesn't sound like a functional
06:43season i didn't say it was going to be functional as a you know where the chemistry would be but
06:48i
06:49still think he goes out there and gives it his all and he's still gonna he's still gonna show
06:53he's what he seems like the type of player that goes wait a second the league thinks i'm only worth
06:58two first round picks and an old man no i'm gonna prove to the league why i'm worth this and
07:04so what
07:05might end up happening is you get a guy that's even more motivated to show the league but if you're
07:11brad stevens you have to do what's best for the team and best for the team this is not what's
07:16it's not hitting the panic button and going all right we're gonna have a guy that's a little bit
07:20upset because we're having real conversations but at least i'm gonna be honest with him and it looks
07:25like you know based off of kind of what jalen brown was saying all right just be honest with me
07:30and go
07:30all right well we'll circle back we'll put some guys around you we're not going to give you the
07:36extension but guess what here's what we're going to do and let's work this out moving forward and
07:42it seems like now you have all the slander of jalen brown we all feel like he is an intelligent
07:47guy
07:48some people believe he thinks he's the smartest one in the room where i think he would have been like
07:52okay let's run it back and we'll figure what we need to do out but you basically panic and you
08:01play
08:01chicken and you you know you jerk the wheel away do you think it's not necessarily panic but maybe
08:08that the celtics ended up getting pissed off because again like mego pointed out like i think
08:12he made it a point yesterday to point out the fact that hey i keep everything close to the vest
08:18and yet all this information was out in the media and he was trying to point a finger on where
08:23that came
08:24from and maybe that was kind of the tipping point where brad was like well i'm i'm trying to keep
08:30jalen in the loop and yet somehow all of this information is being leaked to the media it can
08:35clearly only come from one place and they were just like screw this we're not dealing with him
08:40anymore i'm just gonna deal it i i can understand that but why why does the guy get frustrated
08:45because you're not being honest and up front with him if you just well how do you balance that with
08:51you though like simple you just tell the man the truth you're saying hey we're shopping you around
08:55but i think that's what he was doing like but that's my point he was doing that so i don't
09:00believe
09:00because because brad even said he's like i don't tell you guys this stuff like he's like i keep
09:05everything close to the vest so somebody had to be telling the press and the media like windhorst and
09:10shams the teams that were interested what the celtics were shopping for so who would have been telling
09:15them that jalen brown and so brad was like eventually brad got to the point where he's like forget this
09:21if i can't even trust you to keep the information that i'm giving you to try and be open and
09:26honest with
09:26you about the conversation then i'm just going to be done with this and move on yeah i don't i
09:30listen i i saw i sat there and watched this conversation go back and forth jalen brown
09:37said this was the best season of his career right favorite his favorite season you think he was telling
09:43the truth yes yeah okay so it seems like you know on his stream and his twitch he's more likely
09:49to
09:49tell the truth brad stevens sat up there multiple times throughout his history and it's kind of sold
09:58us some white lies the fact that oh the money and the owner's going it's not about money what's the
10:03white lie in the past oh yeah the white lie in the past yeah you said he's gotten up there
10:07yeah
10:08we're not when jalen brown is a guy that we're not trying to treat he never said that yes he
10:12did
10:12no he didn't we did in the past found that audio he did in the past he said that in
10:16the past that
10:17he he was he said that his door was open no no i'm not talking about this season i'm talking
10:21about
10:22in years past that he had talked about we we're not entertaining trade offers for neither one of
10:27the jays he said well if you want to go down that road he had said he said there was
10:32a report out there
10:33i can't say that he said it specifically right there was a report out there one off season that robert
10:38williams was untouchable at that time and the next off season they trade him right so things change
10:43but somebody can be untradeable one year obviously right and then be in a position three years later
10:49but if i had to if i had to put my money on it if i had them two in
10:53a lineup and i had to put my money
10:55on it and somebody said okay which one of these two guys is more likely to give you give me
10:59a little
10:59white lie i'm gonna go with brad stevens because of his history and track record on some of the
11:06things that he has said that like but like what like you're pointing to that i just told you
11:13circumstance around kevin durant and we don't even have it in front of us he said that jalen brown
11:19was untradeable him and jason tatum this was i'm not gonna say this this was uh i want to say
11:25like
11:25two years ago yeah but things change over two years wiggy but the guy just got better yeah but that
11:32that doesn't matter this team situation changes he can be like mego said a guy can be unavailable
11:37one season and then be very much okay so this year you want you want to know why i believe
11:41he told us
11:42a white lie what did he say he said that that jalen was not frustrated there was no frustration
11:48there right he said that jalen had not had a conversation with him that way right which i that
11:52was the day after this or two days after the season which i believe is a lie because jalen is
11:58the
11:58type of dude that would go to him say hey i'm frustrated because of this but we know all of
12:03the reports have indicated that jalen brown didn't ask for a trade out of boston no no i never said
12:07ask
12:07for a trade i said fresh he was frustrated with tracy mcgrady when he talked about with tracy mcgrady
12:12i think that he told brad that the same thing and brad then said oh no he never came to
12:17me talking
12:18about how he was frustrated all right we'll continue with the brad stevens discussion play one more clip
12:22from brad's press conference yesterday all brad stevens press conference i wanted to play one last clip
12:26for you uh dan shaughnessy kind of uh pushed brad to ask is this team improved or is it not
12:34here is
12:34uh how brad stevens responded well i i don't think the team improves or not improved necessarily based
12:41on one player or subbing one player for another right we're doing other things too right we just
12:47had a draft i'm not allowed to talk about our free agents yet but we've had three we looks like
12:52we're
12:52going to be having a adding a couple of free agents so like at the end of the day there's
12:55a lot
12:56to the team and as i said before that's not an individual thing for me it's about the depth of
13:03the group it's about the team and so there's a lot of factors there is it the teacher and charlie
13:10brown that calls up and is like come on brad like seriously you anybody with a set of working eyes
13:21will tell you the team is not better with jaylen brown than what you got with this team moving
13:28forward you added mitchell robinson good player good ad good ad no one no one i'm no one's upset
13:35about that i'm cool with that if you add in him obviously for defensive purposes i mean like he's
13:40going to give you he's just a um i would say he's a uh uh what's the word a rim
13:47protector no no he's
13:48he's just an uh a veteran version of nemas cater that's all you did i think that's very fair you
13:54know like you just added a veteran version of nemas cater sure so that don't help your offense
14:01i think that the celtics are looking at another bridge here i don't think that means that they're
14:06gonna be bridges yeah two bridges just like cape cod i think it's not gonna be like a situation
14:12where they don't make the playoffs oh no they don't make the play they're gonna win 50 games
14:16they're still gonna be a good enough team but the question here is and and like something
14:22the one of the points where bilchism jumped in yesterday was a promise that he made that when they
14:29when it comes time to prove it about paying what they need to to win a championship they'll do it
14:35that's cap because i was gonna say do you believe that because he doesn't you know you're selling it
14:39you're selling us on two bridges right now last year's bridge was way easier for fans to accept
14:46because you were only one season removed from the championship you still had jason and jaylen and
14:51jason was going through the achilles right this is going to be so difficult for fans to accept over
14:59the year especially if jaylen is balling out in philadelphia and you see them four times during
15:05the season that is going to be six they made a point to make it six sorry the two preseason
15:10ones
15:10yes the two sorry i'm sure everyone will be locked in on preseason during football season get out of
15:15get out of here hey brad said six no one gives a dad get out of here we could get
15:21out of here with
15:21we can care less about uh okay but that's one thing that is really that's really tough for the
15:27celtics is they are going to eat this all summer there's no basketball that will take away from this
15:33they're going to nobody watches preseason nobody cares about training camp it's not like the nfl
15:38they'll get into the season and it's really going to be until they get to the trade deadline or next
15:44offseason that they can literally put their money where their mouth is because they're not going to
15:49do it this summer listen you great points you make but i'm going to bring you back to the beginning
15:56where i was trying to tell you where chisholm was capping from jump street about them doing it you had
16:06the opportunity to do it and do you believe the reports that yannis was willing to come here he wanted
16:13three years and they said nope we're only going to give you two years i do okay so if you
16:17believe
16:17those hear me out then he's already showing that he's lying to us because you had the opportunity to
16:26make the team better by giving yannis one more year on that deal so don't sit up here and say
16:32oh
16:32they're going to do it in two years and just letting the money no you had the opportunity to do
16:37it
16:37this offseason and get yannis and make your team better but you didn't want to give up the extra
16:44year financially so you can't sit here and defend chisholm by going i'm not defending him i'm just
16:51telling you what this why the celtics are how i think that they see it so why did they do
16:57it this
16:57season why did why didn't they pay yannis the extra year because it as you heard they don't want to
17:03be
17:03tied to multiple super long-term super max so they're
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