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The dressing of Greg Cody or the placement of his son struggling with the lighting back there trying to get our trying to get our banner unfurled there so that we could properly celebrate what is really unusual, which is the following. Do you know how big and dumb a trade has to be to knock off that United States game in soccer played once every never Once every never that game last night, you know how big and dumb a trade has to be to knock that out as the action on the sports news of the day because everyone's laughing at the Celtics today. It's so rare that you have a trade that everyone agrees with one side. I don't hear any good arguments on behalf of what Boston just did from nobody. L do you know how rare it is to get the internet consensus on? We're simply going to laugh at the smart people doing something dumb because Yeah, Lu Luca is the comparison, but how in the hell did we arrive at another Luca train w This guy's not as good as Luca And this is more about the team and the pieces than it is about the player because in Lucas's case, it was just a surprise. This wasn't a surprise that he was traded. What was the surprise is what he was traded for that they couldn't get more than that. And trust me If they've chosen to have Jayalen Brown guard tatum for the next five years in the Philadelphia Boston games, it's because they didn't have a whole lot of other options. Like to choose that one means that that was the best of really bad offers, which is confusing to me because the Boston Celtics just announced to everybody Hey, Jayalen Brown's contract. That's a bad contract. Now. Is that what the Boston Celtics feel about their finals MVP who they gave three hundred million dollars three two two years ago? I think as wow. I think I' startling a thing that I've heard over the last twelve or so hours about this trade has been and it came from Winturst, I believe that the Celtics Pople believe Jaalen Brown had a good season He finished sixth in MVP The Celtics didn't believe he had a very good season. Yeah. I mean, he's not as good as Jason Tatum. We all agree on that, right Not everyone because Mike Ryan has been making forms of the argument that Tatum and Brown were playing at the end of those finals games and Brown is the one that people were trusting and Tatum is a champion, but Tatum has yet to show us Hey, he's going to at the end of games do the stuff that Brunson does. That's not at the end of close games, that's not a skill killer skill that Tatum has exhibited and whatever wherever it is he's trying to be like Kobe. I think they're both overrated, but I think Jalen Brown's a guy that I fear more. I know what Jason Tatum's game is. It's a lot like Kobe. He literally patterned his game again after Kobe's, which is, you know, one of the greatest two guards of all time, no doubt, but also a guy that wasn't super efficient A guy that will just chuck up shots for the hell of it because he wants to get those shots up whereereas Jalen Brown has proven that you can win a title if he is your best player in an NBA finals series Jayen Brown traded to the Philadelphia seventy six news four. Paul George Two first round picks, two second round picks. I can't believe that this is the best Boston could do. Let me begin right here. I hate it I hate it I hate him with a freaking passion. What is the NBA thinkinking How does thirty five year old Kwi Ler go for more? How does Walker Kessler go for more? This was a salary dump or a contract dump, but define it however you want. This is ridiculous This is ridiculous This is a ridiculous trade. Paul George is thirty six years old and to save one year of money. I hate it It was a money dump. That's all it was. and the Celtics now today are worse than they were yesterday. Did Mike Ryan, while he was taping morally abhorrent or while he was watching the United States win one of the biggest soccer matches in the history of this country Stop for a moment and listen live to Boston Sorts Radio last night just so he could slather all over his nipples everything that's happening right now in Boston where you will not find a single Boston folk folk Boston who agrees with this trade in that city. I hate it. icanes Insight Live. It's a Miami Hurricane show at six thirty yesterday or following Senegal, Belgium, which was bonkers. D didn't talk Miami hurricanes. It was just all Jayalen Brown. You got it. got. I mean, what is this trade? Dude, that is an offer that if I were a troll GM, I would have concocted just to waste Brad Stevens time. Dan, let me ask you something. If a team called up The Philadelphia seventy sixers And they said We will take Paul George And that contract But we're giving you nothing in return Not a single thing W the sixers have said yes That's a great question. because Paul George is supremely washed, okay. Cheated last year, got caught cheating and then made the excuse. or the explanation that he's dealing with mental stuff. So whatever we've previously described in a less tolerant and polite culture as a headcase in sports, Paul George told you he got suspended because of reasons that he was taking care of his mind because he was feeling frail and also as a basketball player cannot be trusted anymore to play well. is not another version of Jalen Brown is a washed old expensive former Jalen Brown, ton of miles on the Paul George body wherever it is that we talk about the Miami heat getting Yanis to Tkumpo and there being about ten guys like that in the NBA. Paul George was one of them sort of almost with Indiana a long time ago, ton of miles on that particular body and mind, but a couple of things I want to cover here because I find some things here genuinely confusing. One of them being this. Boston Celtics management is not Tom Okay. This is not the Dallas Mavericks management This is a management with a track record and this is a general manager who said to himself, I don't want to be the coach of this team. I want to be the boss of this team and was out ahead of everybody on the numbers is a prodigy is a boy wonder. is still someone I think of as young Brad Stevens because he came to us So young. person just did something that's being universally panned. And my question to the group here is Is everyone else right Or does Brad Stevens think he knows something That no one else knows. Habber Stro' the only one I saw and Jeremy, I don't want to read from this article. numumbers make people's head hurt, but leave the room please and go to the whiteboard and just crunch for us Got it. What it is that Habberstro is writing here, but one of the stats from Habber Stro that would make me think that Brad Stevens thinks he knows something that no one else knows and makes Brad Stevens say Nah, next to Tatum, I can find a number two who's not that expensive and cheap and isn't a top five pick. And I'll make Peyton Pitcher that because we the Celtics have a way the way we're playing basketball will find a cheaper number two and he'll be efficient. But this number The Celtics When Jalen Brown did not play thirty six and six in the last three seasons The Celtics must think that they know something to get that out of locker room, a finals MVP as addition by subtraction. because that being the best offer for Jayen Brown, I'm not willing to believe that the league doesn't believe that Jalen Brown has any real value Well, Boston was also pretty good without Jason Tatum most of this season. So I think you can counter that argument fairly easily. Look, what you're saying can absolutely be right. In fact, I do not doubt that inside of Boston's front office, they have conviction that they're going to improve on their team and they're going to survive this and we may not see the full vision. maybe they do something with the picks, whatever They they could internally subscribe to the the analysts that had Jayen Brown is the seventh best player on their. Well that was Br Stevens. The fact remains, this is an all NBA second team player And they could believe all those things. What is this return or lack thereof, I should say. The trade is not a surprise. This is what makes it different from the Luca one, but the noise around it is similar in that I'm just stunned that the consensus is this is dumb. This is just how can the Boston Celtics be so dumb is something that's echoing across the country in a way that just knock That soccer victory because people are so shocked Not by him being traded because with Luke, it's just the shock of how do you trade that? That's not what happened here What happened here is everyone is shocked by how a return that is for a finals MVP And is it possible? I will ask you guys again. Is it possible that the Celtics know something here about the future of basketball the way they did three years ago when they game the system and just took fifty threes a game and won the championship where they're saying no Jayen Brown, that's a bad contract now. Yeah, but so you acquired what Bill Simmons dubbed the second worst contract in the league think They could be Evisioning a future has them at the forefront Paul George rememinds you connotes future. What what it's a Paul George of this. They only got two picks. I the plan cannot be Paul George. It simply cannot be we are pairing Paul George with this guy. It has to be some other part of this vision. I think the Celtics were clearly delusional and what they believed they'd be able to do with Jalen Brown for one We saw the return they just got yesterday. They thought they were going to get Yonis for Jayen Brown And instead they got Paul George and two likely crappy first round picks in a few years from now. That's number one And number two Everything that we've been hearing about Jayen Brown and the market being light for him was clearly true. It was clearly true. And I don't understand You know, there's a point that's been made right over the last twelve hours where Jayalen Brown did not ask for a trade. That keeps coming out That's bull semantics. Okaykay because that's Brad Stevens can understand he can know his team that hey, we went all in for Yanis. We came up short. The result is Jayen Brown is going to have to be moved because even though he hasn't asked for a trade I know the player, I know my team. I can't bring him back now. So that's that's a bull semantic arguments that he never actually requested a trade. Brad Stevens knew this was the point no return. We had to get rid of him. I don't think Brad Stevens got dumb overnight. I still trust him as a real brain in what he does. And if he determined that Jayalen Brown and Jason Tatum just couldn't coexist for whatever reason, And this is the best deal he could get, then I don't blame him for getting it. Let's not act like two first round picks is nothing. if he can if he can flip that into a into another deal that actually makes them better unlike Paul George who who, you know, Paul George five minutes ago out of gone is he still playing? You know, he's almost like like totally spent Um, but let, you know It's a bad deal, yes. But if those two first round picks turn into anything, all of a sudden the D minus deal turns into a C plus and everybody's going, all right, they had to get rid of him. I hate it with a freaking passion. You started to say let some things play out and then change your mind because the voices are so loud on the other side of this and they're unified, okay? Mike, you have it wrong statistically just empirically on the analytics. The Celtics are about you know, we can go through the hundred possessions When Tatum is on the court, they are always plus and Brown is somebody three out of ten seasons who has not been. their numbers, when you talk about whoever it is around them, there are differences there that make for a gulf between what Tatum and Brown are beyond what your eyes are telling you just statistically and numerically. But whatever it is that people want to do with the analytics the fact that The Celtics not only this little in a way that is stupefying, just strictly stupefying that they got this little for a finals MVP at twenty nine years old who we all believe to be good is is what is one thing Trading him to Philadelphia and making them interesting When they've got now Maxi and Mbed and Edgegum and their're dynamic and now Brown is going to be guarding Tatum when he's been doing that for God knows how long in practice the trading inside of the division suggests such a lack of options Brian Wyinhororsed rather inexplicably to me, given the information I have is saying this trade The Celtics did it under duress and I'm like, what duress that duress can only be Jalen Brown. What other what other duress is there that they had to accept this offer at this time this far before before the season instead of going the next couple of months seeing if you can get a better offer? You know, I mentioned how they thought they could have gotten the honest for him. Apparently the conversation with Philadelphia started with Okay, if you're going to give us Paul George You know, that contract We also want VJ Edgecombe and four first round picks VJ Edgecomb and four first round pick. I don't know what's going on in this league when Michaail Bridges goes for five, Desmond Bane goes for four, Rudy Gubert goes for five and all of a sudden now the Celtics are telling me that they're telling everybody that Jayen Brown contract is a bad contract and given what the returns are Everyone in the league is telling you that they don't want that Like everyveryone in the league just told you don't want Jalen Brown at that price tag. Dan, I sat here yesterday because remember it was Brian Wintors was saying, hey, the cavaliers, if they want LeBron, they got to make themselves a little bit more attractiveable. What if they trade for Jayen Brown? and that make them more attractive? And I sat here and said, there's no way The Celtics are going to trade Jalen Brown to a team they have to potentially play in the playoffs. Now granted, I said that about Cleveland But they just lost to Philadelphia in the playoffs and then they said, okay, you know what? now we're also going to give you Jaylen Brown. Like it's shocking that it was Philadelphia that they gave him to. It's one thing to sabotage your own team Right? It's one thing to fail swing for Janis, not get them. But it's another thing entirely for your miss on Yanis to directly improve your competition inside the East. And furthermore, the guy hanging over Dan shoulder right now, Pat Reiley deserves a lot of credit for making a trade that hurt because they didn't want to give up Jak and Chunis. They make the trade that hurts because Jalen Brown is included in this deal. Not only do they keep Yanis away from Boston But Boston is now in a messy situation with Jalen Brown has to trade him, gets less what everybody on the planet thinks he's worse. They improved both Philadelphia, a team that eliminated them just weeks ago and Miami. It is a disaster. It's one thing to miss out on improving your team. It's a totally different thing to do that simultaneously while improving your competition Excited for summer, hosting a pool party, a barbecue or just looking forward to some relaxing time at home They've been building their best knowledge and expertise for one hundred and twenty five years and they know that no matter what your summer plans are, most people don't want cockroaches involved. Socking, right As supporters of summer plans, both big and small, Orkin is here to stay one step ahead of Pest so you can stay one step ahead of your schedule. 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Greg Cy, don't do it. This is the Dlevatar show If you were in such a negative position with Jayen Brown part likely because of your pursuit of Jonis. I mean also, mate They were likely internal stuff. I mean, I'm sure people in the Celtics organization did not like the things Jayalen Brown said on Twitch twenty four hours after they were eliminated by Philadelphia. So I'm sure it's a combination of things. But if you were in such a bad position knowing you werere going to be in a bad position with Jalen Brown because you put his name out there in your very strong pursuit up until the very last minute for Janisant to Tkumpo How do you say that Hugo Gonzalez is just too much for us to give up when if we don't complete this trade Our team is going to implode and instead we'll just go take ball, George. Hold on a second. just for a second guys. We all know this. Yes, Brad Stevens not dumb. cororrect We in agreement that this is not Dumb person because everyone is reacting to this as if it's a dumb trade and I want to take Zaz' question seriously because it's a good one. I do believe if the Philadelphia seventy sixers could have simply pressed a button and gotten rid of Paul George for nothing, they would have been fine doing that and just calling that experiment over. You can't now because the money and the salary cap have contaminated things so much today In today's game, that you get into this position where if everything is equal around the money because of the salary cap, you have to find some creative ways to win in the margins by finding things that are efficiently valuable. And so I do believe that the Celtics think they're going to surprise us the same way that they surprised us this season when Tatum didn't play. I believe But the Celtics think they can do this with just about anybody that they pick. I believe that they believe that they're the spurs in the heat when it comes to now just building players that are going to be useful and that they're trying to money ball their way in basketball to. We'll take our five guys and we'll make them good enough to win fifty games a season as long as we have Tatum healthy. I strongly agree Maybe Hugo turns into a superstar. Maybe Paul George even taps into You know, healthy form. And they also signed Mitchell Robinson yesterday All those things can be one hundred percent true and this return can still be puzzling But it makes me think though that u The way everyone in the sport is now doing the calculations is a little bit beyond where it is. We are in understanding salary cap mechanations because because Mike, it wasn't just Boston that told you that that contract's not worth what it's worth. It's everyone in the league who just told you that and I thought that Jayalen Brown was a player who if you put him at the top of your team, you're making your team better don't I hear what you're saying. I just cannot fathom a world where you get the worst contract in the sport back in just two first round picks as being some sort of forward thinking evolution of the sport. I don't they could be just as good. They could win the NBA championship. the return for a second team all NBA player in his prime that was a finals NBP was the worst contract in the sport and two first round picks for a team that you just made better that'll be picking in the latter part of the first but answer this question Then why did the Celtics take it? Because I don't I think Brad Stevens is going to Michigan. this is puzzling. I don't know. I don't believe that it's because the Celtics are suddenly stupid. I believe it's because they were forced by everything that happened with the Yanest trade and Jalen Brown's unhappiness under duress to make a trade to a league that knew that the that the Celtics did not have leverage And so this was just a super weird time to get what they must think is a poison out of their locker room. But now look what gets welcomed into the Philadelphia locker room by way of hello, given that the Celtics were just somehow eliminated in the first round by Mbed seventy sixers. I mean, this is my personal opinion on basketball. Some y'all might disagree You know what I mean argue with your grandm fllopping has ruined our game Joeln Bed is a great player One of the best bigs Basketball history, flops He know it. ain't this ain't breaking news You say, you know what I mean It is what it is I can clip it up. likeike I said Yall can post it on these paid accounts that are these whatever That's just my opinion. Jayen Brown, speaking of Joe LM B after being eliminated by Joe LMB. let's go out to Jeremy in the other room to see if someone, anyone can assemble an argument on behalf of why it is that the Celtics did this. What do you have, Jeremy Yeah, Dan the issue is the return, right? Like when you think about the fact that Jimmy Butler when forcing his way out of Miami was traded for a first round pick. Andrew Wiggins, Davon Mitchell and Kyle Anderson, which ultimately turned into an all star guard and Norman Powell This is two first round picks in Paul George, but there are basically three pillars. Tom Habistro went through it in his Yahoo sports article in a way that was really digestible. So the simple side without Brown, you mentioned it, thirty six and six in the last three years when he doesn't play. If you look at a small sample size singularly game seven against Philadelphia, He was minus sixteen in game seven despite his thirty three points. he scored without him. They outscored the Sixers by seven points. And the bigger piece, he's had a negative on off for four straight seasons, including a career worst neegative seven point seven in twenty twenty three twenty four. Now that's right after he signed his three hundred million dollars contract. It also happens to coincide with the fact that that's the same season. he won fininals MVP. If you look at the advanced numbers though Player efficiency rating, he's eleventh in the leag Bx plus minus, he's twenty first. But if you dive into some of the deeper numbers, estimated plus minus, he's eighty seventh. That's about a borderline all star level player with players like Zach Edy, Moses Moody and Paul Reed ranked ahead of him in that statistic. This is where you get into the real nitty gritty. Jeremius Engleman has a stat called XR APM Basically, it takes all the on off stuff into account. He ranks them in the sixty second percentile, which is one hundred eightieth in basketball for players who played at least thousand minutes. That says one hundred, but it's supposed to be a thousand. And lastly, you mentioned salary, right? Where can you get efficiency from Richard, you have a marker in your hand. Why did it whyy does it say one hundred when it get say a thousand? D Did you run out of room on the board? Is that what happened? Can you put another zero in there? Tight You're very good at the small writing. Thank you. You should put another zero in there. So any little zero, there you go. Is that zero? So er space in between. Hold on a. We're gonna to, yeah, it looks a it looks like a period. You put a period there You're going to now make Pichard Brunson here because Cody before it, hold on a second, Jeremy. Yep. Greg. Yeah When he gives all of those numbers, people hate math in this context. They don't want to hear it. they don't want to talk about it. When you say when you see XRA PM, are any of those numbers or analytics useful to you? No, my eyes glaze over. When I look at that whole board and everything he said, there's one stat that does matter a lot to me. and Brad Stevens knows it better than anybody We were thirty six and six without this guy. Wh I'm smarter than everybody else. I think we can win without him. Tell me, I'm wrong U Jeremy, we'll go back to the rest of that list in a second, but the part that just really does give me pause on this is You're going to tell me in the last three years that went from an extension worth signing to a bad contract. There weren't a whole lot of people complaining about Jayen Brown getting that kind of money beyond them saying the just the ridiculousness of the guys in the NBA who are paid the most. Some of them don't actually deserve it because it's such an insane amount of money. But that's happened in three years When you look at everything that's happening in America when it comes to organiz, you know comoming in, looking for efficiencies and trying to streamline everything in a way that takes its soul That stuff has come to sports Boston has been ahead of people, not behind them They didn't fall so far behind that something is happening here. Most people don't understand and no one seems to agree with They think they've got right. Otherwise they there's they don't have to do it now. They've just done something that is being viewed as intergalactically dumb that they don't have to do now because they think it's the right thing to do. It's not like they don't know that this is what the consequences of this was going to be. People are howling the way they have not howled since the Luca trade on this. Well, I think they did have to do it now because I think the situation was clearly untenable. Like I think you have to kind of trust the organization that they have more information than we do about that I would expect The Jayalen Brown smear campaign is likely going to start today where there's going to be le coming. it's it already has. It already has. you've got Colin Cowherard saying, quote, I had two NBA sources, two people in the league, one an executive one to scout say that Jalen Brown has, it's a disease. He suddenly thinks he's the smartest guy in every room he's in. You make a lot of money, suddenly you're absolutely sure. You don't want to listen to your bosses. You don't want to listen to consultants, You you don't want to listen to teamates This is something that is starting today and the Celtics will now try to defend their position by leaking a bunch of stuff anonymously. The reporting the next couple of days is if if Jayalen Brown thought ESPN was an unethical network before, wait till you see what the anonymous reporting is going to produce the next couple of days. But I disagree with you saying that the Celtics must think that They know something or they're ahead of the curve with what the future looks like in the NBA Clearly the rest of the league is there with the Celtics. othertherwise they would have gotten a much bigger return. The fact that they only got this doesn't that mean that the restre of the leeague agrees We don't value this player. It's an excellent point s and again, they could win the NBA championship and this could still be a bad move because the value that they got in return for a prime second team all NBA finals NBP leaves so much to be desired This is ridiculous Jeremy, finish what it is that you were telling us there about Peayton Pritchard being Jayen B Jalen Bon. Yeah. I mean look, is that the argument I'm going to make? Absolutely not. But this is what the Celtics might be thinking You see a guy when Brown wasn't on the floor this year who averaged twenty five points seven assists five rebounds on fifty one percent shooting forty four percent from three. The team was eight and two in the games he played on his own He had a fifty eight percent effective field goal percentage in isolation this year. So essentially a guy using his quickness in isolation. That was second amongst the sixty three players with at least one hundred isolation plays this season. And over the next two years, he makes seven point eight and eight point three million dollars respectively lining up the massive number that Paul George has over the next two years. but Jayalen Brown has one extra year on that deal and is due another extension that's going to put him up at about seventy million dollars in the years after that This is clearly an example of the Celtics not wanting to pay that extension, but this is a guy who was a ten year long home grown first round pick who won finals N theP to give that up George and two first round picks. No matter the analytical argument, the analytical argument that Euddanis Haslam coined, it just doesn't make any sense. I hate it with a freaking passion Tony, you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks. I know it well. It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with CQuervo walking this. 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This is the D Lebatar showh I want to ask you guys a little bit about the times that we're in, okay? because Jayen Brown is growing up in a time where his adult years Basically the years of the internet and This is by any reasonable standard in my lifetime covering sports Somebody whose behavior in almost every way would make him An exemplary figure. For athlete who's about the correct things And not smartest guy in every room just smart And while you might not like some of the things Proud opinionated black man has to say. This particular one at any time in my lifetime before social media, would have been an exemplary role model who is now going to get dragged by the times. The New York Times anonymously, all of the times that we live in that are going to make Jayalen Brown a bad person when that person has never in my lifetime as an athlete been a bad person. He's about to get smeared He's about to get get into a fighting posture with the internet because they are going to desecrate somebody who has against all odds climb to the top of a very competitive food chain. It's fascinating to watch because He's had no Real issues? The real issues would just be whatever happens in the locker room where there's ego and whatever happens to the to people growing up in this age because they think the internet is real and the unhappy and sad and people on the internet who are just looking for a laugh are now making him less than when he's got no context under which he can be less than except the one that we've put him in. It is really crazy to see this person, a role model by almost any definition in sport, is now about to get dragged even worse than he's been dragged I mean, Pat, like if if you knew this was gonna be the end result, I would have said throwing three more picksle. It would have come up with a hypothetical trade that's funnier than this. Damn. they didn't get a good return and they made the teams in their conference that much better Imagine if b's up. They know they're going get Yonest for this guy. We got Yonest. That's right. he got ywnish broke him. always F Boston. Pat Riley runs this show. and how about the way that this summer could possibly I'm not going to say short thing because I can't predict the future. But how about this summer possibly ending With the heat adding LeBron to Yan and the Boston Celtics implode. That's right. Oh and by the way, the heat and Pat Raileley also took the Celtics cookies at the draft last week. Let's not forget about that because the Celtics wanted Ryan Conwell at number forty about the Ryan Conwell. The heat were number forty one and the heat said, Oh, that's the guy you won Well, let me make a trade in front of you. I'm gonna take him. How about that player? I hate it. Okay. I while I find all of this funny, I do believe that the Celtics healthy are going to figure out a way to win fifty games and also This part has been really confusing to me to see just all of the changes in basketball. So It wasn't that long ago. The Celtics were down three o in a series against the the heat and I thought Joe Mizoula was going to get fired at the start of his career And I was asking people up to and including after they won the championship, Is Missoula a good coach? because they had sort of gamed the way that they were doing things to play fifty threees a game and they had two top five picks and that's how they played. and they were ahead of everybody And now we're laughing at them and they're behind everybody and they've made Philadelphia interesting. And I'd be just curious here. Can you look at Draft Kings's betting ods? What are the betting odds between Draft King sports between the Celtics and the Sixers? How much did those odds change with simply this trade because The Sxers the Sixers already, they feel like the Sxers today. The Sixers already The Celtics in the last playoffs when they had Joel and beed healthy, almost kind of. for a few games. Basically they basically beat the Celtics with the only seven games of health in Jo Ellen Beed's last three or four years of career because he was just healthy enough to beat them in seven games. game seven on the road once Tatum got hurt and they were playing with only Jalen Brown at the top of their roster. So I'm on the drafting spports app now available in all fifty states. and I know from yesterday The Miami Heats price has gone down because I locked in Miami Heat NBA champions. You move the market? Well, I think a lot of people are anticipating and also maybe last night's developments also has something to do with this because the market price on the Miami Heats win the NBA title is plus eight hundred nine Dan, I can assure you that Boston was ahead of Philadelphia in the MBA Championship futures odds, right They are now below Philadelphia. The market price on Boston whenin the NBA title is now thirteen twenty nine. That is plus thirteen twenty nine. Philadelphia is roughly at plus one thousand With this trade, they have improved The championship pds of Philadelphia and Miami. I hate it. You know what else? They've improved. They've improved the odds that the Sers might now be in play for LeBron James I'm just saying it. I hate it. while you're just saying it because It was not worth saying because it was there it was and I saw regre Gre. Yeah the report yesterday The report yesterday was that LeBron was willing to take the minimum, which obviously expands the the likelihood of him going to some of the teams that aren't talked about because they didn't have the cap room. So it can't what Greg is saying cannot be discounted if we are to believe the leading inside on a sport I'm going to discount it discounting. I don't believe the leading insiders in the sport. They get their informations from agents and these agents have incentives to make it seem like all options are open for LeBron because once all options are open for LeBron, You end up increasing the offer of the people who actually want you. Everything is in play right now and that information is being disseminated by LeBron's camp on what he does or doesn't want because it's the only camp that actually knows what he doesn does or doesn't want. These information people are compromised and it doesn't hurt them at all, the insiders to take the information of LeBron will play anywhere for any amount because it just opens up the pool of competitors and you need the pool opened up of competitors and there aren't that many who can actually afford the maximums. So just say he's liable to go anywhere. That's nonsense. He's not playing anywhere for the minimum. Like I don't know anything and I'm reporting that that's bull. But I think he's literally not playing anywhere for the minimum. Like like can we say the same thing there where okay, they're saying that LeBron he's willing to play for the minimum And that means that there's going to be a team out there and says, okay, if he's want to play anywhere for the minimum, we're actually going to pay you a lot of money. Wait a minute. This doesn't even make sense. The last Since twenty fourteen, after LeBron took the initial discount H and his people told anybody who would listen publicly or privately, never again