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JT/JB drama in Boston is reaching new levels. Did Jaylen Brown ask for a trade? List of demands??
Breaking down the rumors and the reality of NBA locker room dynamics. Let's hear from Brian Scalabrine
Breaking down the rumors and the reality of NBA locker room dynamics. Let's hear from Brian Scalabrine
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00:00let's get to the audio so because i got a 781 text saying i don't i missed this yesterday here's
00:05what
00:06brian scalabrini said on a podcast about jalen brown going to the celtics and saying here's a
00:14list of demands or i want to be traded and i want to go to milwaukee here's what scal said
00:20my understanding of this thing is that he demanded to be traded not into the media but to the
00:26organization so this was what if this is what was out there do you actually then why would he be
00:32mad
00:32at jason tatum then that's what i said i don't understand like i think i think jalen brown lives
00:37in his own reality but because it wasn't being documented that he demanded to be traded then i
00:42don't think that anybody anybody thinks that that he could now he could say that it was tatum's fault
00:49like he could just make stuff up but my understanding is jalen brown went to the organization and had a
00:53list of demands and if it was like you either do this or you trade me and he was rooting
00:58to get
00:58traded to milwaukee including calling some other teammates about hey man what do you think of
01:03milwaukee we should go there my my point of all this is like if you're actually doing that and you're
01:08going to say that tatum is the one that's lying like your whole basis of this thing is a lie
01:15so that is spicy i'm juicy and spicy i'll do my other lead but here's why i say it looks
01:22bad for
01:22the team because we all have been going or at least me have been going back and forth of why
01:29the hell
01:30wouldn't you trade for janice who's averaging damn near 30 a night right and everybody's like oh jb
01:37wasn't going up right walking i was saying that right yes yes and so this makes the team look bad
01:43in
01:43the sense that jb was asking players like hey who wants to come to milwaukee with me yeah so doesn't
01:51this now go back to the shams report where the celtics didn't want to throw hugo or shyman in
01:58to get yannis maybe so but it's a bad look if jalen's like i'll go to milwaukee it was also
02:06am i the one who
02:07who took it that way i mean i don't look at it that way but i can understand you looking
02:13at it
02:13that way okay so that's the only reason why i was like oh man this is crazy and then curtis
02:18why would
02:19you guess that if the team if he's doing this to curry favor why did he then walk it back
02:24during the
02:24broadcast last night a little bit because he heard from across the league saying whatever you're being
02:30told is nonsense but who who's he hearing from what i don't know i i have no idea i know
02:37but you
02:38you when you when you ask me things you want me to explain he did but why would he walk
02:42it back you
02:42tell me i'm asking you no i'm asking for your opinion as to why he walked it back i think
02:49he
02:49walks it back because it makes the team look bad yeah yeah i think the team went to scowl and
02:55said hey
02:55like let's relax a little bit on this because everybody knows scouse plugged in like everybody
03:00knows he trained so why did he report it yesterday i don't know i think you're right curtis like i
03:05think
03:06he thought it would benefit the team he thought it was a positive thing so he was going to do
03:10it and
03:11put it out there and then the team was like saw the blowback was like dude right because they were
03:15saying they said we had this thing at level lamb chop and now you're elevating it to level uh prime
03:24rib
03:25here like like dial it back a little bit i thought that mark spears yesterday had the best analysis
03:34like i i feel like we actually hit yesterday on the exact tone of what this relationship devolved into
03:43and for the 30th time i don't think jalen and jason are really at odds with each other personally
03:52i think that the the issue is the organization's treatment of one versus the other and that what
04:00we heard yesterday what's been great about this feud is that it's forced some of the real like
04:07independent individual incidents that created massive amounts of tension like jason tatum being
04:14announced last when he returned and that you're jalen brown and i'm not saying he's right or wrong but i
04:21understand it you've carried the team for 60 games you're in the two seed or whatever you were at the
04:27time and jason tatum comes back and immediately he's the guy again wow i mean strong allegation
04:35right from scowl now he did sort of walk it back during the game last night did he ever say
04:40that
04:40tatum actually didn't find out before he was told by shams because that's what people are saying is a lie
04:47no he never said at least from what i heard but i didn't hear the whole thing about him saying
04:52the
04:53the when tatum found found out what do you think was on the list of demands if there was one
04:59he wanted
04:59to be introduced last uh i mean maybe he wanted and i had i asked courtney this question off air
05:08i said do you think he wanted he wanted first access to the cold tub he might have i love
05:14you greg but
05:14this is rich coming from a guy on the greg hill show well curtis somebody said that your new villain
05:21role is that you're suddenly you're suddenly anti-tatum you're quoting game dog now okay so no i'm not
05:28i'm not quoting anything i'm not saying that i think jason tatum and jalen brown their issues aren't
05:35with each other their issues are with the organization i agree so then 90 percent of that so then jalen
05:42brown should stop putting a blue cap emoji on things that jason tatum it's true he was lying he
05:48thinks jason tatum is a mouthpiece for the organization and that that that the pr conversation
05:54is all about how the celtics protect jason tatum like if he hasn't that would be like somebody saying
06:01i have an issue with the greg hill show they then have an issue with you yeah you know like
06:06the the they
06:07have a an issue with the organization but the front-facing guy of that organization is also
06:12going to take some of the right but i i think that jalen brown and jason tatum situation it obviously
06:19was started by the organization of those two guys uh of the organization not treating those guys equal
06:26right and then the way it bleeds off into tatum and brown i just think it becomes some of the
06:33little
06:34stuff that is subliminally said i have to subjugate my ego and do things that i know i might not
06:42want
06:43to do but i have to do them i have to sacrifice and that's like lightweight taking you know it's
06:49a
06:49little shade of i'm always doing it jt's not doing that and so jt hears it he doesn't say anything
06:55but
06:56he starts you know he's keeping receipts and then jalen brown says best season ever look at the
07:02offensive production and where we rank as a team and that's another shade and jason tatum's and then
07:08receipts and then jason tatum says you know what i don't always have to be the smartest guy in the
07:13room that's shade that's a receipt that jalen brown so it that's where their little issue comes from
07:20yeah i think jalen brown like many confident people sometimes do went to them and said these are my
07:28demands this is what i want or you can trade me right and he didn't think they were going to
07:33trade
07:34him okay can we hear can we hear from the the preeminent expert of the nba a man that wiggy
07:40says
07:40is infallible well i'd say infallible i said i believe them on the day after the trade i think the
07:47most honest things were stated right afterwards not when we can rewrite history this is what sham said
07:52after the jalen brown trade my understanding is jalen brown throughout all this never requested a trade
07:57he never asked out of boston this was all the celtics thank you okay i got no issues with that
08:03i don't know scowl your thoughts so i why did you refute that in real time scowl i would say
08:09this
08:10and this is why i said right because you guys didn't believe shot uh believe shams when i said
08:15he's the one who said that you said when has he ever been wrong about no no no no no
08:19no i said sham said
08:20that the the celtics did not want to throw shaman or hugo in for the honest trade and i
08:27and i cited a report that he got wrong and you said wait that was not about an actual trade
08:31you
08:32guys poo-pooed that right and i'm like all right well that's my opinion i believe what shams is
08:36saying so you know who you know don't throw bombs you know who didn't poo-poo it shine yeah
08:43he's having trouble in that but here's the only here's the only i can feel it like greg gurgling in
08:49my
08:49stomach it's like stop stop no here's the only did you bring that hey i want to be out no
08:55i i'm
08:56i'm specifically not doing anything to help myself right now so i don't have to leave in the middle of
09:01this program because otherwise i may be out for 10 or 15 minutes you want some blueberries they are
09:05fantastic excellent antioxidants right through you they will run right through you yeah i mean it will
09:10yeah again if you want me to do that i know i haven't had anything well that's an issue okay
09:15go
09:15ahead no i was just saying why i said so somebody please tell me scowl never throws bombs why would
09:22he throw this bomb well he threw it and then he backed it up like an hour later i trust
09:26i trust
09:27sean's bomb i didn't ask you i you always do it why would scowl throw this bomb because the whoopee
09:32of the organization was taking heat and the celtics mascot on the broadcast brian scalabrini
09:38said that this is what happened as a means to take heat off of jason tatum of course so then
09:43why
09:43would he have to walk it back if the celtics are cool with it because he then took heat personally
09:47and didn't want to deal with it i don't think the celtics told him to go ahead and say that
09:51i think
09:51scalabrini took it upon himself that he thought he was putting the the organization in a good light
09:56and it backfired on him right i would say why would it backfire i don't think he just reports this
10:01you
10:02think he just like oh i thought of this today i'm just gonna throw it out into the ether so
10:06but why
10:06would why would it backfire if the organization is cool with it what where was the backfire because he's
10:12doing a national show on sirius i know but i don't necessarily know if the organization was
10:16cool with it that's what i'm saying i don't think the organization told him to go ahead and say that
10:19i think scalabrini said it i guess the question is how does this make the organization look bad
10:25well because i think you've got one of your star players that was then going around asking other
10:30players to leave with him to go to milwaukee and that then the team didn't take him up to get
10:34janice here don't you think people would rather have janice here right now than
10:37so paul george so the way the team looks bad is because of the shams report that they didn't
10:44want to throw hugo and shyman in the deal to get janice sure if you believe that those two right
10:50right connected yes but if you don't believe that then how does the team look bad from scal saying this
10:56it doesn't look bad on the their side at all i didn't say the team look i think i think
11:00brian
11:00scalabrini was saying something that would benefit a guy that he covers on a daily basis as a i'm not
11:07saying i would do it differently if i were scalabrini i'm just saying that as his role it's very
11:12different than shams role but you have to take things with a grain of salt and you have to take
11:16the timing in which they are dispersed also with a grain of salt that this came out when it did
11:21makes
11:22me question it entirely why make something bad i think with regard to janice uh-huh and nobody knows
11:29except for brad what happened there but i think that they had seen they had two stars who could no
11:36longer get along i agree we all agree with that i agree with that 100 percent and they and this
11:41happens in our business happens in other businesses two people who are both good at what they do they
11:49just don't get along anymore right and so it's the obligation of the organization to go and find
11:55somebody that can interact with one of the two of them they chose jason tatum and then they went and
12:00chose paul george because they know that that's going to be a fit when it comes to jason tatum maybe
12:06yannis wouldn't be you know so i that's what i think happened there i think that they that brad did
12:12what he thought was the best thing for the organization and that yannis and tatum might have had the same
12:18issues that brown and tatum yeah but yannis wanted to come to boston based on the reports that you heard
12:24and he's sitting down there in miami on an own four team and and all i i guess the whole
12:29thing with
12:29this is my thing is this doesn't like before he says it i don't get why scow would say go
12:38all right
12:38i'm gonna make up this huge lie and and then i'm and then it potentially is gonna backfire on me
12:44and
12:44now i sit here i don't think he made up a huge lie i think that like we've said scow
12:48is very connected
12:49within the organization i think he heard rumblings about this i don't think that he went out there
12:53and spewed a lie like i think that he truly wanted to be treated equally and that was never going
13:01to
13:01happen because it's impossible to treat two people equally so you believe what scow said was a lie
13:07right i don't believe that jaylen brown said i want to be traded right i think he said i want
13:12to be
13:12treated equally i think you can infer and i think he has scow has plausible deniability
13:18that that meant trade me and that he never thought the organization was going to carry
13:22through with it as greg has said i this is one of those weird cases where i think everybody's kind
13:27of right yeah like i i don't think anybody looks good i don't think it's entirely anybody's fault
13:32yeah jaylen and jason were tired of each other jaylen was never going to be jason in the eyes of
13:38the
13:38organization the organization was never going to allow jaylen to supersede jason there was a million
13:43things that could have transpired but where we ended up was probably the worst possible
13:47situation
13:48situation