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The bitter part is because my original 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.840 co host of the show, my beloved son Demons, who 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.440 we may or may not hear from today, is a 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.560 lifelong Celtics fan dating back to Rayjon Rondo and Ray 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:35.480 Allen and his heartbroken by this loss. Thankfully he now 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.080 lives in the state where sports betting is illegal, or else, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.760 I would imagine this would have been a financially crippling 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.640 loss for him. We may hear from him shortly. We 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.760 need to get into the game, get into a little 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.160 finals preview. There's a little football to discuss as well. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.800 We appreciate you watching on YouTube. If you're watching right 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.760 now on YouTube, don't forget to ask questions or comments 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.800 in the chat and we will get to them in 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.520 the third segment of the show. If you're an audio 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.160 listener listening throughout the week, we appreciate that as well. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:13.720 Our YouTube numbers have been exceptional. Our audio pot podcast 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.760 download numbers those could be juiced a bit, so we'd 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:22.000 appreciate on iTunes or Apple Music or Spotify or wherever 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.920 you get your podcast, if you would subscribe. Here is 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.840 what is not on today's show. Jamison Williams unaware of 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.520 the gambling policy in the NFL. I actually buy that 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.239 since nearly a half dozen Detroit Lions we're suspended for 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.160 the same thing. That's a lion's failure, not a player failure. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.880 The Milwaukee Bucks higher Adrian Griffin, the seventy six ers 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.200 hire nick nurse and Leveon Bell says he's smoked weed 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:56.560 before football games, which maybe explains his somewhat patient, almost 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.200 lethargic running style, but it worked quite well for him. However, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.560 we must of course start with game seven from last night, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.240 and we must of course welcome back in after a 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.080 brief absence Diora, who was not on this past Thursday 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:17.720 because she had school responsibilities. Those school responsibilities were a 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:23.400 trip to six Flags. Yeah, so she skipped work to 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.239 go to six Flags? Diora, How are we starting today? 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.720 Okay, so the Heat are heading to the finals. What's 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.399 more impressive the Heat beating the Bucks in the Celtics 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.520 en route to a finals? Or are you not losing 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.800 faith in Jimmy after they dropped three in a row. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.440 Well they're both pretty damn impressive, I gotta tell you. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:48.640 And I was shocked by how many people were just adamant. Oh, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.760 once the Heat lost Game six, they have no shot. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:57.480 Why did they think that? So the argument is, oh, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.160 they can't come back from that type of stomach punch. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.600 Small history lesson here. So the last team to suffer 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.720 that type of stomach punch loss. This was actually worse was, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.920 of course, the twenty thirteen San Antonio Spurs, which they 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.760 weren't going to go to the finals, they were going 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:23.080 to win the finals, and then Ray Allen hit a 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.760 three to send the game to overtime, the Heat winning overtime, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.520 and then we go to Game seven. Now, of course 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.680 the Heat did end up winning that game, but it 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.400 was not because the San Antonio Spurs melted. It was 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.440 not because they were hungover from the loss. In fact, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.720 the two biggest culprits of that loss were a young 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.320 Kawhi Leonard and Mannu Genobili. They both missed a critical 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.880 free throw, one each in the final forty five seconds 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.320 of that game, which allowed the ra pardon me, the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:02.520 Ray Allen shot to tie the game. Kawhian Manhu played 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.320 brilliantly in that Game seven. They only lost that game 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:11.280 because Lebron dropped thirty seven and twelve. Conversely, the Miami 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:16.400 Heat players who created the opportunity, Chris Bosh with the 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.480 rebound and Ray Allen with the shot in that Game seven, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.400 the two of them, the team's third and fourth best players, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:29.840 scored a combined zero points they were zero for nine 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.320 and the Heat won despite it was a two point 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.000 game with thirty seconds left. So the reason I give 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.640 you that brief history lesson is the idea that the 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.640 Heat just weren't going to be able to overcome the 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.480 emotional devastation of that game six is belied by history, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.080 particularly win you have a great coach and Eric Spolstra, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:02.240 and a great leader in Jimmy Butler. Furthermore, the Celtics 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.760 have not been a You love when I say furthermore 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:06.600 you laugh every time. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.640 I think it's really funny because I feel as if 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.440 it's not necessary in the sentence. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.360 You know what, Sometimes I do these opening monologues. It's 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.680 as if I'm writing an essay and just dictating it, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.520 and so I throw in words that you would use 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:26.680 to adjoin thoughts or paragraphs within an essay. And that's why, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.599 that's why maybe I use some of the language I 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.440 do as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. Furthermore, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.159 the idea that the Celtics we're gonna have some massive 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.000 home court advantage. They've been bad at home in the 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:48.920 playoffs for two years now, and so I just didn't 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:54.560 buy it, and I understand, folks are caught up on 0:06:55.360 --> 0:07:02.039 the alleged and seemingly obvious talent dispace between the Heat 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.760 and the Celtics. But how far do we have to 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:12.600 go until we are willing to say the Celtics are 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:18.040 not the better team. The only piece of evidence we 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.960 have that they're the better team is this year's regular season. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.200 These teams played each other in the conference finals. In 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.920 twenty twenty Miami won they played last year, the Heat 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.800 were the one seed from the regular season. They played 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.920 each other in the conference finals last year. Jimmy Butler 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.239 and Tyler Hero got hurt. Hero didn't even play this series. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.200 Butlers sent he played all the games but games three, four, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.320 and five. He was a shell of himself. Despite that, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.520 had an all time Game six, and then the Heat 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.560 were a shot away from winning Game seven. And in 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.320 this they played in the playoffs seven times. The Heat 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.960 annihilated them in Game three, a de facto elimination game, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.720 Game seven, an actual elimination game, beat them soundly in 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.720 games one and two, and came literally within point two 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.640 seconds of winning Game six. They were point two seconds 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.640 away from beating them five out of seven, including two laughers. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.320 The Heat are better Jimmy. I want to say this 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:41.840 as well. If you value winning basketball, if you value 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:50.679 playoff basketball, being a sixteen game player, you must acknowledge 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:57.760 that Jimmy Butler is a top five player in the league. Yo, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.400 kitchenes in there, Jannis is in there, Steph is in there. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:11.320 After that, there is nobody that you can definitively say 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:18.480 is better than Butler. He's better than Jason Tatum. I 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.120 feel he's better than Devin Booker the last few years 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:31.360 in the postseason. He's clearly been better than Kevin Durant. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.679 And better than Lebron. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.160 The last couple years in the postseason. You have to 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.640 say it. Lebron missed the playoffs last year. I thought 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:45.320 Lebron was excellent in the postseason this year. But even 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.800 if you would have Lebron ahead of him, that's only 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:56.520 four guys. But to me, Lebron, Durant, Jimmy or all 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:02.120 Luca are all in that discussion For the four, five, six, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:07.880 seven spots, You've got to drop down Embiid, who keeps 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.800 coming up short in the postseason. You to me, it 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.200 is a question of how you view basketball. If right 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.240 now you feel like Embiid is better than Butler. Butler 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.600 constantly delivers, constantly gets better, constantly gets the most out 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.080 of his teammates, never blames other people. Had a great 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.200 line in the post game when he was asked about 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.800 role players and he was like, I don't call him 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.880 role players, I call him teammates. You feel like he's 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.760 gonna come through. I don't think there's a player in 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.920 the league. I would have been more confident in making 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.120 all three free throws at the end of Game six 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:59.800 than Jimmy so and Caleb Martin is a hell of 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.400 a story. I understand some people wanted Caleb Martin win 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.720 Eastern Comference Finals MVP. I would have been fine with it. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.160 He was better in Game seven. Jimmy was better in 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.840 the entirety of the series. But we have sometimes in history, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.040 go back to Magic's rookie year. You gave him a 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.160 Finals MVP because of what he did at the end 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.319 of the series. I think it's Game six at the 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.839 end of the series over Kareem, even though Kareem had 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:39.920 been the dominant player in that series. But I just 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.439 I think what Jimmy. The confidence Jimmy and Spolsra and 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.240 still in that team makes every guy on the heat, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.080 the best version of themselves. And now we'll see how 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.360 they do against the Nuggets, which we'll talk about in 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.600 a moment. But now we've got to get to the 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.560 flip side of this, which is the losing team go ahead. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.720 So bad news for Boston. The Celtics got embarrassed in 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.880 Game seven. Good news, their coach has plenty of time 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.240 to watch the town. Now, the assumption is Boston is 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.800 making major changes this offseason. Are Tatum and Brown good 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.600 enough to win a title or is it time to 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:19.920 move on? 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.120 Well, this is now where I would like to if 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:30.280 we can go to a video that Diora surreptitiously recorded 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.400 over my shoulder. You're always sititiously, surreptitiously. Uh, you're always 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.440 saying that I'm in your phone. You were all in 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:40.080 my phone. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.040 You're on the phone with my brother. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.640 Yeah, and you were all in my conversation because demands 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.120 jubilantly looked like maybe he'd had a couple pops. But 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.920 that's okay. Watching Game six from a watering hole in 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.400 Los Angeles facetimes me and let's go ahead and run 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.280 the video. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:15.080 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know, dudes, I can't I mean, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.800 you guys are so lucky. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:24.560 What I mean, give me a break. So this is 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.920 kind of a real life version of how it started, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.800 how it's going. That's how it started on Friday. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.800 Also shows how much of a dad do you want? 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:36.720 Why the screenshotting the messing up with your phone is 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.360 just that. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.800 Is true if you were watching the video. I accidentally 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.240 pulled my credit card up the little Apple paid thing 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.679 up there. Accidentally. I was taking the old school screenshots. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.520 But that's fine. I like the old school screenshots because 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.640 then you get your face in it as well. The 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.959 regular the little tap button screenshot. You only get him 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.400 as opposed to getting both of us. Doesn't matter. That's 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:05.079 how it started. Here's how it's going live from Los Angeles, Demons. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.840 How you feeling this morning, sun. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.840 Well, it is seven in the morning. I'm feeling It's 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.480 all right, man. The heater gonna get a gentleman's sweep 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.480 and that'll be my my victory lap. Okay, how are. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:27.480 You we'll get to the finals a few days ago. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.120 I mean, that's listen, congrats that you guys made the 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:38.960 exact same round and instead of instead of a hard 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.320 fought four games, that all came down to the wire. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.880 But you know my team couldn't get any of them 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.800 against the Nuggets. Your team at home against an eight 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.040 seed had somehow found a fate worse than a sweep, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.880 which is you felt all the embarrassment of a sweep 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.680 in those first three games. No what demonte back on camera? Please? 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.560 Then you got Then you got your hopes built up 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.560 in game four. Oh wait, game fives back in Boston. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.920 Then you beat him in game five. Then game six 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.520 you're like, oh, don't let us win Game six, and 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.320 you win it in the most miraculous fashion, only to 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:27.320 no show at TD Garden fifteen first quarter points. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.400 Stress out up until five six o'clock yesterday. Come on now, man, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.880 you thought we were gonna win that series the whole time, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.880 up until six o'clock. Man, be serious. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.400 All right, well, I'm going to off the air. Send 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.360 you some betting slips from yesterday that show how confident 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.520 I was plus two seventy. Pay the man, I don't 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.200 need the plus seven and a half. All take the 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.760 money line plus two seventy. Thank you. Also a little 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.320 little small taste on the heat at thirteen to one 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.080 to win the title before tip off yesterday, but that's 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.000 neither here nor there. Yeah, thirteen to one. That because 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.240 everyone thought Boston was gonna win. They're like, they're three 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.840 to one now, but everyone thought Boston was gonna win. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:20.560 For your donation, Okay, well we'll see, but let's talk 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:27.440 about your Celtics because you had some takes yesterday, which 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.440 was Jalen Brown's gotta go and Jason Tatum's milking his injury. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.680 So let's start with the Tatum thing. Let me ask 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:44.200 you this a sober minded analyst, if Tatum never turns 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.800 his ankle, do you think the Celtics win that game? 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.320 You know I'm gonna be arrogant and. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.160 Said, yeah, okay, I don't do think that. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.480 I think that, you know, our best player hobbling around 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.800 when seeing playing hurt. I think it definitely has an 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.760 effect on the team. I do. I mean, maybe they 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.320 don't win. I don't think that they get smoked the 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.680 way that they did, but yes, I definitely do think 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:17.840 that changes the outcome. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.760 Well, so I think maybe it changes some of the 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.080 ebbs and flows. I felt like Miami was the better 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.920 prepared team and Boston somehow was not prepared to deal 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:34.159 with the Miami zone. But that does bring us to 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.959 the Jalen Brown question, because the entire idea of having 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.960 two stars is if one of your stars is compromised, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.000 one of your stars isn't one hundred percent, the other 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.680 guy can step up instead. He was eight of twenty three. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.240 He looked like you dribbling out there. Just having the 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.240 ball ripped away from him is just. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:17:59.800 That's so addious. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.320 And uh, to Jalen Brown or to you, to me, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.639 to me, Okay, I. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.840 Don't think we saw Jaylen Brown a star anymore. I'm sorry. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.240 So you wouldn't pay him the five years? 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:16.959 What'd you say? No? 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.719 Go ahead, I can't hear you pressing the button. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.240 I am pressing the button, But no, I wouldn't give James. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.600 Okay, that's my bad. That was in my headphone. Sorry. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.800 So here's the deal. I don't think they can pay 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:35.200 him that either, but we also know that if they don't, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:39.240 they've got to trade him. So I think there is 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.040 a Damian Lillard trade trade to be made. Set it 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:49.159 up and say it again, set it up immediately. I 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.239 think there's a Damian Lillard trade to be made, and 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.080 I think it's actually one that works for both teams. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.679 Because the Blazers have the third pick of the draft, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.040 So the Blazers add Jalen Brown. I think you could 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.320 really just almost do it one for one, Jalen for 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.560 Damian Lillard. Damien's better, but Jalen is younger, the Blazers 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.800 are gonna need to spend some money. He's more on 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.960 the right timeline. And Jalen just didn't seem like himself 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.960 the whole postseason. And he is a more than capable 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:32.159 second option, but he's clearly not a number one. And 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.120 with the I don't want to get into the machinations 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.680 of the new collective bargaining agreement, but you pay Jalen 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.200 fifty million a year, and next year you're gonna have 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:47.440 to pay Tatum sixty million a year. Sixty million a year. Uh, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.240 that's gonna be your team. And the whole idea behind 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.160 having these two dominant wings is you can shut down 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.680 the other team's wings while out playing them. Instead, they 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.040 got outplayed by Jimmy Butler and Caleb Martin. No shame 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.880 in getting out plaid by Jimmy Butler. A little shame 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.520 of getting out played by Caleb Martin. By the way, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:17.280 mild media criticism is it too much to ask that 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.280 the number one color commentator of the Eastern Conference Finals, 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.840 Reggie Miller, if he is going to make the twenty 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.680 minutes of the broadcast about how Caleb Martin is going 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.600 to get paid, that he know that Caleb Martin this 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.920 past offseason signed a three year contract, and that he's 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.480 not a pending free agent and he just signed for 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.199 three years twenty one million bucks, and that even if 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.880 they wanted to pay him, they couldn't, and that it's 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:55.760 just these guys. Not only does you treat every turned 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.800 ankle like that, it might need to be amputated, is 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.160 it which is constantly complaining about the game? What happened 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.160 to the game? I love? You don't even have the 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.560 facts right, and you're like, oh, this guy's gonna get paid. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.919 He's not a pending free agent. He already got paid. 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.919 In your defense, it's not like he had been a 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.760 big player in a seven game series. Oh wait, he 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.720 had been the second best guy on the team that 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.280 was winning the series. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:22.920 First. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:27.240 It's terrible you think he was better than Jimmy for 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.040 the entirety of the series. 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:35.320 Over I think not majority majority see that entirety. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.720 I thought he was better in Game seven. I thought 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.080 Jimmy was better over the entirety of the series, and 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.800 also Jimmy had obviously a bigger defensive focus, but it's 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.200 detestament to him that it was even close. One last 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.280 Celtics question for you, Pale, because I know you got 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.360 to get to actual work. Would you bring back Missoula? 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.320 I mean, would you bring back Missoula? 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.480 What are the coaches that I can get instead of 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.000 Missoula blast in the past with Doc Rivers or something. 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.040 Well, I don't think you'd want Doc Rivers. I want 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.760 them got hired in Houston. He would have been a 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:13.200 good fit. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.199 What'd you say, I said i'd want him for his 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:17.560 Game seven strategies. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.440 Yeah, uh yeah. 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.880 I mean I don't Yeah, maybe given another year. I'm 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.639 not totally anti Missoula, but I do think if they're 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.960 you know, coaches that have proven themselves already, then maybe yeah, 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:37.160 pick those guys up. But uh, I don't want row before. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:38.919 I want Missoula out. 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.920 Wow, just all the way out on Jalen Brown. Also, 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.520 is someone going to write the story about how he 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.760 actually cut his hand or are we still going to 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:54.400 go with the I cut it picking up a broken 0:22:54.600 --> 0:23:00.920 vase huh. Like, as Tom Ziller said, listen, you don't 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:02.959 have to tell me how you broke your hand. You 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:06.080 cut your hand, but please don't think I'm dumb enough 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:09.000 to believe that you were picking up broken glass as 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.960 if it were trail mix and that's how you did it, 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:15.760 because you cut your hand before the playoffs started, and 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:20.520 in Game five it was reportedly gushing blood. Come on, 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.320 man and listen. I like Jalen Brown. I like him 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.280 as a person. I like what he represents off the court. 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.640 But he seemed like he was really bothered, really bothered 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.880 by all the trade rumors and it came to a head, 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:39.000 and now he's almost cursed by the fact that the 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.960 Celtics that he made second team All NBA. So it'd 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:47.159 be five years, two hundred and ninety million. So I 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:52.399 think major changes ahead in Boston. I would absolutely be 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:57.639 in on seeing if Damian Lillard is interested in coming 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.920 to town and you can cover up some of Lillard's 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:08.359 defensive weaknesses with everyone else. But a starting five of 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.720 because I I don't know what's next for for Horford 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:16.560 if we're being totally honest here, but a starting five 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:23.320 of Marcus Smart, Damian Lillard, Derek White. If you want 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:27.240 to go three guards, that might be too small, but Tatum, 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.640 Robert Williams and then Derek White, I guess could come 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.159 off the bench. You you got to fill in the 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:35.879 blank on the wingspot. You want to start Grant Williams. 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:39.000 Maybe if Horford's still gonna be there, you start too, Bigs. 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:44.320 That's a team that works, So listen, Pal, go ahead, Demanta, 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:46.159 you can have a last word on your Celtics. 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:48.760 That's that's not a bad It's not a bad team 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.640 at all. I've got faith in that team. But I've 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:53.760 I've got one more question for you, be Finally, did 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.280 you did you hedge that that heat bet that you placed? 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.160 Did you hedge it or no? So you're lie on air? 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:03.920 What do you mean? I'm lying? 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:04.400 You're lying? 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:05.480 What are you talking about? 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:06.080 Okay? 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:06.960 What am I lying about? 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:08.960 What do you say? So you didn't you didn't hedge? 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:11.520 You didn't bet the Nuggets to win the series? Maybe 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:14.159 after your little what? What? What was what were the 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:16.760 odds on the heat? No? 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:21.000 I'm telling you, I bet the You're confused? Oh? I 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:21.800 bet the heat? 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:23.439 You know what? 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:23.880 I bet? 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.240 That's my mistake. That's my mistake. I thought, you bet 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:27.600 the Heat to win the finals. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:35.280 I did yesterday before Game seven. Okay, I bet the. 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:38.400 Heat, not the Eastern Conference Finals, the finals to beat 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:40.120 the Nuggets. You bet? 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:44.240 Okay, just be quiet for a moment because you're getting 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:48.320 confused by the people in there. Yesterday, before Game seven 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:52.000 tipped off, I had no bets going The only bet 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:54.359 I had going into these playoffs was the Lakers at 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:58.240 fifty to one. I didn't head that that lost. Going 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:03.679 into last night, I made two wagers, a significant amount 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:06.960 of money on the Heat to win the game at 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.959 plus two seventy and a taste, a small amount of 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:14.439 money on the Heat to win the NBA Championship in 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:17.679 the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty three at thirteen 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.679 to one. The Heat money line bet already paid. And 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:24.639 now I have sitting out there a small bet on 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:28.080 the Heat at thirteen to one to win the title, 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:32.720 which now has already four xt in value because they're 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:36.200