these guys are ridiculous these guys are [Music] ridiculous now how about them damn Celtics and we are back with another episode of how about them Celtics Sam and I are here recording on Wednesday July 10th going to Vegas tomorrow to watch summer league getting all this done all this stuff pre-recorded we just recorded two summer league Guy videos now we're doing the full pod this is coming out tomorrow or today Thursday this is Thursday I know I know I got tripped up cuz I thought we were pre-recording for Sunday but then I realized they're not going to hear me say this until it's out anyways this is the we're doing this for tomorrow this is coming out at some point I know I know I got real tripped up anyways bunch of stuff to go over today Sam how you doing I'm doing good hav it packed yet it's really hot in Vegas me neither yeah but I'm excited uh Jack Bobby kritzky and I squatting up on the flight tomorrow we're all in the same row it's going to be a good time maybe watch a movie I know you're going to do work absolutely not you want to watch a movie with me I've got a lot of stuff to do no I don't like movies what if they have Spider-Man would you watch uh no I want to do that's just a bad friend move me yeah I watch Mo you might as well just tell me you'd shoot me we'll see we'll see um yeah anyways uh we're start today with I guess the biggest news of the day I would argue Derek white joining Team USA Kawhi Leonard is out the Clippers and Team USA basically said nah you're not playing he was ready to go and the Clippers decided to H him out which is probably for the best I mean never seen someone pray on someone else's downfall quite like this poor guy it's thrilled that Dereck White's playing because he got hurt he just wants to hoop man but yeah Derek White gonna suit up with Team USA I actually kind of I I wrote about this um let me see if I can find it uh why you look when we talked about the Team USA selections earlier in the season I think before the year started there was the rumor that Drew holiday was a candidate we were like all right like who would be good to make the roster and we went through and one thing that you really harped on and hammered on was that hey you don't have to take like the best 13 guys you can take guys that are going to be a part of your team and play well in the roles that you asked him to play and Derek white just put together one of the great role player seasons of all time if you even want to call him that so much so that he was being like propped up as an Allstar not to say he didn't deserve the praise but like that's how well he was playing as very impactful low usage guy uh good Defender and could shoot threes like that's really what he's he absolutely thrived on this year also did a great job moving the ball too but anyways he ends up on Team USA as a rotation piece somebody who can play three and d and I actually saw somebody be like yeah Team USA could use some extra guard defense at the end of games yeah I mean I wrote it okay I finally found it I wrote it for eight points9 seconds uh I wrote three players who could beat out halberton for the 2024 Olympics this was right around when he was playing feea last year um and two of them were Derek white and Drew h both of whom I mean halbert's also on the team but I mean basically my argument was uh I said the most unorthodox on the list could be a sneaky candidate to play because of his play in the defensive end uh and then I made the point of during the World Cup Josh Hara moved into the starting road because of how comfortable he was as a role player playing alongside other stars and Ingram got bumped to the bench it would be for the same reason that team say could go with a guy like Derek white for the Olympics like you don't need a million shot creat creators you don't need a million stars you need guys who can play alongside those stars and it feels like in Drew holiday and Dereck white you got that I don't think Derrick White will play a lot of minutes if he plays at all really but I do think it's nice to have a guy like that around um and it's just cool it's just a cool thing to uh to see happen and now 1/4th of the Team USA team is Boston Celtics players which is wild to think about from that perspective can't believe I'm actually going to have to watch this hell yeah August is going to come around I'm going to be like so happy that there's games on and when when do the games officially start for those of us that are drooling from the sides of our mouth and just sitting here thinking about Jaden spring and the summer league can you please tell me when the real feba games start or the Olympic August 3D August 3D against Puerto Rico group stage that's that's no joke Jose Alvarado they going right away um they've got oh sorry no no no no sorry so they have wow they play a lot of games there's going to be a lot of content so showcase schedule just just like practice Games July 10th 15th 17th 20th and 22nd so ton that I knew and then the Olympic schedule group stage Games July 28th July 31st and August 3D and then the quarterfinal semifinals and other ones if they make it there if and when August 6th August 8th August 10th so lot of stuff we we don't really get a break until the end middle of August and then a month and a half we're gonna go out there and talk about like who who's like posting Instagram pictures whatever we're gonna have to post building the perfect team around Jason Tatum with stars and role players like we did last year that was fun I like that a lot what's the dumbest video we did last year Payton pitard Cooks Jon Brunson and T yeah but that was related to FEA that wasn't even like August no content I don't remember I don't remember we we'll have to look we'll look and replicate but um Derek white also talked to Chris forsberg about his extension during the edition of Celtics talk uh he said going to start working out again in a week or so and just get back into the routine of everything this was probably before he joined TOA so he's gonna get a little more on that now and then about his extension said I loved it in Boston hopeful and pretty thankful it all happened pretty quickly I don't to answer the questions about it I don't have to answer questions about it all season I just wanted to be uh there and they wanted me there so shout out Derek white shout out Brad Stevens it is truly incredible that they have the championship core locked up for the next X amount of years that's not a normal thing you see you look at the Nuggets they you know guys left you look at the bucks even guys left you look at the Warriors things fell apart Celtics have the score locked up and that's probably a scary thing for the rest of the league because this is a damn good basketball team yeah I mean everybody's coming back that's going to be devastating for a team like I don't know the Bucks who was just hoping that they would bring in last sum and now Milwaukee's team's falling apart they want to get rid of Brook Lopez too who was a key part of their Championship success a couple years back like tough very tough and you got your Rivals just sitting pretty does Doc Rivers break teams thoughts no not good guy like all accounts pleasure to have in classes say question mark anyways along those same lines with Team USA jayen Jaylen Brown might not be too pleased that um Derek White made the teamer I don't think it's a Dereck white thing but after the Dereck white thing was announced he tweeted out uh question marks eyes emojis he TW out something like very not the the guy with the monocle yes yes the Monopoly man you ever seen a guy with the monacle in real life no have you no um I'll pull up the Tweet so you guys can see it on uh you to pull up a picture to see what it actually looks uh yeah he tweeted this and then he also had a deleted tweet where he tweeted at Nike said are we really doing this twet it yeah it's not here anymore oh I quote tweeted it this is dirty nasty work and I believe he just said like is this really what we're doing and I think this speculation is um Nike this what we doing question mark yeah I was I was texting Noah about it and she she was like the speculation is that he's like called out Nike in the past and he doesn't mess with them but they're the sponsor for the Olympics and stuff so are they like like basically Shadow Banning him from the Olympics cu can't actually ban somebody but rather they be like let's not let's not got this guy of te see I played basketball for two hours this afternoon I saw this tweet I just thought he was talking about the uniforms and also you know who else is not on the team Mr Irving who also does not like Nike very much who is it Kyrie I mean like you know what I'm saying like that's another obvious this could be well maybe they just don't want their team to implode well I I just purely from a doesn't like perspective like it feels like that could potentially be a thing but uh I don't think like there's a lot of stuff going on yeah I know but like not nobody on the team is like actively spoken out against Nike um a lot of people on Twitter are like does he hate Derek White NOW Derek white is perhaps Derek white is perhaps the most don't give a [ __ ] guy in the league like I don't think Derek white cares at all and two I don't think Jaylen Brown would do something to like go at his teammate I just think he's like really like because it is kind of crazy that he's not on this team like he is objectively better than some of the guys on this basketball team and it does feel like yeah it it does feel like I wasn't even thinking about de Booker I was thinking he's probably better than Halbert he's probably better than some of these like in general um it does feel like once LeBron and KD retired there will be a spot open up and then we'll really see like okay he should say no and go play for one of these other teams yeah he should go say you should do he should get French citizenship really jack up he should be very that would be smart and beid would probably go over there and join him that Hopper around bandwagon it would be a little fun if we got Tatum versus brown then you could have all the panel like we're going to find out who it actually is what would be the best team for him to join from the most inrig probably if probably France right I think France would probably be it he play with Kyle Anderson with China play with Luka Canada Slovenia yic Greece would be a little funny if he joined like Croatia it's like him a bunch of white guys him zubach sarich with the black eyes at the club um yeah we'll see yeah Canada's the easy one I think France would be more intriguing than Canada honestly think they don't really have much yeah I think France is probably better in Team Canada France has Wy Rudy are they playing SAR are they playing dadd fornier kabali k um maybe Canada's better from like a depth perspective but I bet France is a better team Canada's Got Jamal Murray Shay yeah uh Wiggins if he plays yeah yeah O'Shea who's not playing Zack Ed Kelly o not playing Zack is not playing Zack e is not playing no no no he's focusing yeah see what I mean like it gets thinner than you think Dylan Brooks Dylan Brooks dog i' I'd go I'd go France but anyways um next thing Jason Tatum is the cover athlete for NBA 2k2 this kind of felt obvious to me he's had a past relationship with 2K he's had a long relationship with 2K just won a title him and Asia Wilson will be the cover athletes for um the game Cool good for Tatum I can pull up a picture of the covers and stuff um but I'm a fan I like it good I can't believe I'm gonna have to buy this game the worst part is I I feel like I should buy a physical copy of the game which is nasty work because nobody wants to have to switch the discs out anymore when's the last time you switched out disc in your console do you even have a disc tray in your console should I open up let me I can tell you what the is I have it right here let me see I think I think I have Black Ops as a disc in my console oh there is a disc it is FIFA 21 FIFA 21 so that's the answer to your question live um so it's been a while since you open up that thing because you were just telling me you're going to play pro clubs FIFA isn't even called FIFA anymore that's how long and FIFA 21 came out in 2020 so it's been like four years but here are all the excuse me the covers for NBA 2k2 featuring Jason Tatum also sorry you can probably hear my AC I'm hot sorry um I know you can't because you're listening to music but they can here's Jason Tatum 2k2 by himself Asia Wilson gets the WNBA cover them together and then Vince Carter on the Hall of Fame Edition which is this is yes he got just he just got inducted yeah um Tatum little Easter egg yeah Tatum 3s what about Tatum 3s that's them we haven't seen them yet oh when you said threes I heard um oh step back threes yeah yeah yeah I was like what is 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love the Tatum ones just they fall apart so fast that's a good a lot Tatum twos are I like him better I smoked my ankle in those but I think he might be the best the best uh excuse me the best uh player shoe in the league right now that's I mean obviously there's like the LeBron and those are probably better and K and KDS I guess are good too LeBron won't get a sent out of me yeah shout out tum uh in tandom with his uh announcement on the 2K cover he didn't interview with Tommy alter who did the interview on behalf good to see Tommy alter Still Still chugging along um but um in his interview Tommy alter asked me a few questions we'll highlight a couple then we'll just go over some general quotes but the first one he was asked about his reaction to the Drew trade and basically just said thanks Milwaukee thanks bucks uh I took all these quotes off Justin tp's Twitter so shout out turp thank you uh really you didn't use Noah no I found turps first Noah's Noah's kind of washed uh but here is uh the clip of him basically thanking the Bucks uh for letting them get Drew which is just very fun it is a shame take a look here that they let him get him for Bas not free free free no love free not free but free so you got the text that Drew holiday is coming to Boston were you in the back of your mind you know a lot of things have to happen you know how tough it is to get through in the back of your mind are you like we're winning this [ __ ] at first I was like I can't believe Milwaukee let this Happ thanks to the bucks [Laughter] um yeah kind I knew we had a really good chance um to win a championship a lot of things have to go right you have to stay healthy have to be on the same page people have to get top Contender has to catch brain damage um but knowing that Drew had Championship DNA and I wanton a gold medal with him I knew you know what kind of player and person that he was uh I knew it was going to make our team better and we already got KP and we already had a really good team so um yeah when we got Drew I was pretty confident about what we could accomplish it would have been way better if Grant was in the trade you could just be like rip Bozo pack watch Grant Willams knew he was gone thank God I will say and I forgot to say this when that we talking about Dereck white this is like it shows how stacked of a team the Celtics had not just because like oh they have three guys on Team USA but because arguably the Celtics second and third best players are not two of those players like like the there's no other team in the league who's fourth and fifth well I know I know but in general like there's no other team in the league whose fourth and fif fifth best players would even like have a shot at making Team USA like this realistically like you think around the league like who who are some of the like oh yeah this team's really deep like the Bucks fourth and fifth best players like maybe Brook Lopez has a chance maybe like but then Who's fifth Pat conon you know what I'm saying like there there's not a lot of teams like this like the Celtics have five $30 million players on their roster because they found Talent acquired them when they weren't a $3 million player or had means to get them when they were Allstar lover players like this this doesn't happen and because they drafted to all NBA caliber wings like the Celtics have done such a phenomenal job and again I know pzas can't but like look at the past x amount of Champions right technically he could I I guess if he did the whole thing but whatever like the point is like look at the Nuggets let's say all their top guys were like Team USA right Yoku should have a chance obviously Murray maybe but then what michaelp Jr like kind of not Gordon kinda maybe like and I know Derek white isn't this amazing player but like Michael Porter Jr hasn't had an All-Star you know push Aaron Gordon hasn't had actually Aaron Gordon did have an All-Star push he probably could have been an Allstar well even even if you want to like go that far Michael par Jr is not like getting named to all all defensive teams Gordon has a shout I think he might have actually made one but he' never made an Allstar team okay no all NBA defensive team he's never made a defensive team I think I can double check but he's never made defensive my point is though like even like I at this point Eric Gordon is probably their third best player he's probably better than Michael Porter Jr right and so you're talking about comparing him to Dereck white Dereck White's arguably the fifth best player on the Celtics versus the third best player in the nuggets and I and Derrick White clearly has a better chance to make the team than Aaron Gordon because he's on the [ __ ] team and so the the fact that the Celtics were able to trade for Drew holiday after alreadying porzingis after finding a way to get Derrik white in the chap and building him into this amazing player and really harnessing his potential while also having two of the best wings in the league like it's just it's crazy how it's how it's panned out and Jason Tatum saying thanks to the Bucks is also just equally hilarious I'm very happy I'm not a buck fan tough it's probably a tough one he's got the nases running around over there I will say though I want to amend my statement Aaron Gordon is probably the second best role player in the NBA behind Eric White I like if you want to call classify them as role players Aaron Gordon is a [ __ ] yes and no because there is a yic piece of that where like yic yes absolutely yic is very different than like Tatum and brown in the sense that like he just makes everybody better that's why I said role player like what I'm saying is like the benefits of playing with joic are like exponentially better than playing in Boston I I was going to say yes because of the situations they're in role player and like whatever whatever but I think you could put Derek white on another team and he could be the secondary option you can't do that there Gordon he needs to be in that role to be as effective as he is but Aaron Gordon's a phenomenal basketball player um wonder what team has the most Olympians like right now like that have won a gold medal no like right like playing in this Olympics souths have three oh they would have four Denver hasis Denver has Lakers have Pacers have two I just saw the email that Andrew neh hard's on Team Canada so that's two um let me see not on Cameroon guess he's not I think they're in the press conference I don't think they made it uh Olympians I don't know if I can find this um Warriors Curry Wiggins okay okay I think this will probably tell me oh no this is not current what current Timberwolves ant Rudy cat playing for the Dr or they don't they're not in I don't think they're in um every okay I have it every NBA expected to play in the Olympics let me share this play on the Bahamas so you have Luca him they didn't make it though I think they lost in qualifiers okay okay so oh yeah so let's check heat heat have Patty he was most recently with heat at the Australian he'd have a couple though he'd have Nicole yic too so there's there's one suns have Booker Durant and b b um so that's we see three is the most Celtics have three O'Shea would have made four but nope um Warriors Warriors technically have three um but usuba is not on the roster okay Lakers have three Haim uh Timberwolves have four Engles on Australia goar on France nikila Alexander Walker on Canada there's your win four yeah Pacers have two Sixers have one um Raptors only have two Thunder have two I'm just double checking here nugget yeah I I think two is going to be the winner um or four sorry the timber wolves um which makes sense yeah pretty sure every Raptor player technically can play for Team Canada because you play there because they probably some of them probably have citizenship I don't think that's do you have to have citizenship to work in a country or is the NBA technically a American organization yeah I I don't think they have to I don't think so shout out to Pelicans Daniel Tyson Dyson Daniels that's fun I Haven made my decision to support team Germany respect uh I think they might have just got bounced actually uh no When Ty signed for the Pelicans they said he's going to lead Germany at the Olympics oh yeah shout out um they win the gold medal I'll be hyped that'll be fine anyways that took an interesting tandem um the other Snippets from Jason Tatum's 2K interview uh we can go over some of those now just to to wrap up because there were some other interesting um tidbits and stuff that he talked about one he talked about winning a championship he said winning a championship it did feel like a breath fresh air like the weight of expectations were lifted you've accomplished something that only a few people have in history and we talked about this with Tyler Rucker or talked to Tyler Rucker about this our our buddy over at no ceiling shout out Tyler friend of the show basically it feels like Jason Tatum's just going to be able to play so much more freely now that he's not that was a great de the the expectations of winning a title like it does feel like obviously he's going to try his ass off to win again but it does feel like there's a bit of weight off the shoulders thing of okay I did it already I don't have I have [ __ ] to prove to anybody anymore all I can do is win again and again and if I can do that awesome and I don't have to worry about getting for the hump because I've already done it and I know what it takes yeah I I forget who it was that was like yeah just look at when he was at All-Star for the first time and all of a sudden he went like nuclear before the co break Happ true he was playing unbelievable ball once they were like yeah Allstar time Tatum you're you're in you're in he was like bet time to cook so is this finally gonna be the MVP season that we we've all been like kind of like teasing I think I think LCA wins MVP next year all the hype after the finals run obvious dud been taking a beating despite the L get his team to the damn Olympics I feel like all the questions going into the season where can Luka win can you win playing Luka ball clearly the answer is yeah you probably can uh I mean unless you go up against what was objectively the best team in the like like you can win playing Luca Ball but you also have to play defense my point is the Luca Harden comparisons Luca has now gone farther than Harden ever did so there's that um other thing from Jason Tatum talked about uh the conversations the team had about what do they take to win said the top guy can call it the 15th guy 15th guy I can call it the top guy uh said he would have preferred to win the finals in Dallas said I knew what it felt like for somebody to win a championship on my home court I wanted that get back I wanted to win in Dallas I seen the Warriors celebrating on our home court and that [ __ ] was devastating basically I I know it's like I think it was better that they went home but basically he was like Yeah I wanted them to feel it more by winning on their Turf and make him really [ __ ] doesn't like his get back come from winning one on the home floor now he's not a negative he hasn't seen more titles won at TD Garden than he has won hey gang let me tell you a little something about game time now that the NBA season has comeing to a close you got to get yourself out to an MLB game this summer you want to go to Fenway you want to go to your local bar Park game time is going to get you there they are an authorized ticket Marketplace of Major League Baseball which makes tickets easy to get prices on Game Time app actually go down the closer it gets to first pitch who doesn't love using it I sure do I used my game time app to get my dad tickets for Father's Day and I got a fantastic deal it's so easy to use again you can get those last minute deals they have Flash Deals and Zone 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times better getting there and falling short getting then getting over the hump it was well worth it still doesn't feel real that [ __ ] has not let the trophy go since they won he had to leave it when he went to Vegas it would be kind of funny if he was playing the Paris Olympics it's just like on the bench next to him he should carry it out with him during the walk out yeah they should they should get like little belts or something to carry around just so let everybody know yeah shout out but um to to actually talk about what he had to say yes Tatum clearly loved winning a title like every chance he has gotten the opportunity I think he's even won on social media like he's consistently said that it's been a hundred times better than he could have ever imagined whatever he felt the night of game five probably the best feeling of his life I don't know he has a kid it's kind of mean I can't can't can't demote Deuce like that but it's going to be towards the top and for him to have experienced that with Boston is pretty important and there was also the little excerpt from the Boston Globe where himmelbach had the quote of him saying like yeah like to be here for the Long Haul wants to be seltic for life [ __ ] yeah I love that I love that a lot think about Tatum today I was like do I really still have to trash him I like I really can't trash him anymore you never had to brother [Laughter] he um if he finishes his career he's probably ahead of Paul Pierce in the rankings even if he does like if he does nothing else and just finishes his career playing high level yeah probably which is weird to think about I feel you has to get one ah why it's kind of weird because I feel like if they if he's he's only 26 so if he's here his whole career and they don't win again this will will wear off like Pierce played 15 season with the Celtics he won the title in year 10 and they were competitive for the last uh let's see four of the last five see this is this is the the Michael Jordan disease though this is this is Michael Jordan never lost in the finals yeah but he didn't make the playoffs until he was this no no I'm I'm not trying to say that what I'm saying is like the there was less time after the peak for people to like get frustrated if Mak but I still think I still think the sustained success that Tatum has and probably will continue to have in Boston is better than Paul Pierce's entire career of Boston it could be it depends who you ask I guess I'm I'm not necessarily like trying to downplay it I'm just trying to see the other side of it and like like if they're like kind of disappointing for like the next he's 26 so let's just say 10 years but what do you find as disappointing like if they make two more finals but lose them both I'm a little worried about this upcoming season just with all the poringa surgery then all these guys are playing for the Olympic team and like probably G to be a little fatigued in there Horford's a year older like I don't think I I'm not like I don't think anybody's be overly mad if they come up like below whatever the expectation is this year but like down the road you have the sale like it is very hard to repeat his Champion like it hasn't happened in what I'm not I'm not saying like I don't think anybody's be mad I know if they repat that it would be cool I certainly would not complain uh anyways be down would be down let's go to the email here see what y'all have to say I believe we have one email and then one rless Emil which we'll sa for later but shout out RJ we'll go see what he had to say here uh salute email Summer of Love Olympic news has summer league impact morning pH I just saw the report about kawhai and the rumor that D white will get a spot in the Olympic Squad which did happen which of course has an impact on our summer league Celtics viewing with both Drew and dght on the Paris roster increase minute should become available in the early part of the season for the Celtics third and fourth guards while pton is a gym rat even he might need some rest too so a fifth guard maybe fortunately with JD Springer Jaden Davis uh J JD Davis and Jaden Springer sorry and Jordan Walsh the se's already have guard depth under contract in theory that familiarity with coach bazou and the Celtics offensive defensive scheme should give them first crack at playing time can also open up possibilities for Jaylen house and Ron Harper Jr all in all I think the summer league Celtics will be less about guard showing off their solo skills and more about how they blend with the rest of the team I think H and Harper Jr being children of former players will give them a leg up on the rest of the invites but we'll see stay hydrated and be well RJ I think JN Ramsey deserves to be in the mix uh as well probably but um I think you could see some more Springer minutes for sure heading into next year and I think Jordan Walsh could soak up some of those two guard SL forward minutes I guess as well sitting here think about Springer minutes I I like Springer too maybe not as much as you but I'm a big Springer fan just a fan of his like I don't know like I like the way he plays I like he plays like aggressive defense he's somebody that they put into games for like five seconds in the end of quarters like that doesn't happen I mean Joe mul is a different coach like no coach is really doing the type of [ __ ] he does like even the pton Pritchard like going in there to throw up the heaves like doesn't really happen that's pretty cool that Springer is that good at defense that they're like get out there it also like volumes at the first thing that people talked about when he traded at the Celtics is like his last game as a sixer they put him in to guard Steph Curry like probably a pretty good Defender if that is the task on a good Sixers team wasn't the part of the reason like they went to get him was the positive feedback that Sam Cassell had or the positive opinion Sam Cassell had having been a part of that Sixers staff Sam Cassell and Tyler Lashbrook were both on the Sixers when Jaden Springer was there and they like spoke highly and were a big reason though why they want to get him per I think him Bach reported that yeah okay w a big fan Springer Jersey yes it' be funny Ridiculous by all right NBA section time let's go check out uh what's been going on in the world of the NBA starting with some pretty big news NBA has officially agreed to a new media rights deal going to share my screen here ESPN put together a report about it so we'll take a look here NBA has agreed to terms on its New Media deal an 11year agreement worth 76 billion that assures player salaries will continue Rising for the foreseeable future uh and one that will surely change have some viewers across uh access the game for years to come a person familiar uh with negotiates and negotiations told the AP that the networks have the term sheets with the next big step for League's Board of Governor to approve the contracts the person spoke to AP on the condition of an inity Wednesday because they weren't at Liberty to discuss the impending matters uh shout out the deal which sets NBA records for both its length and total value goes into effect for the 25 26 Season so not this next year games will continue to be aired on ESPN and ABC and now some be going to NBC in Amazon Prime TNT Sports which has been a part of League's broadcasting family since the 80s could be on its way out but has 5 days to match one of the deals the five-day clock would begin once the league sends the finished contracts to TNT the athletic was forc to first to report on the contracts uh I don't want to read all this but I'm just G to scan through and see everything else ESPN and the ABC will have the big the biggest package um ESPN's main nights will continue be on Wednesday with some Friday and Sunday games NBC which had them from 90 uh to 202 uh 2002 has two broadcast network Partners For the First Time um let's see NBC will showcase some Sunday night games once the NFL has ended Prime video will have games on Thursday night after it's done carrying NFL games uh that's probably gonna be like twitch which is fun which is easy super easy to watch the games um also clears away for the next major item expansion so there we go oh I see names sorry uh let's see in the short term the deal almost certainly means League salary rise 10% annually the maximum allowed but terms of players uh in the most recent CBA between the players that means players such as OKC Shay gills Alexander and Dallas Luka donic could be making around 80 million in the 2030 31 season so lot of money play it to players new deal for the NBA kind of all the stuff we knew already um but yeah there's that Celtics did they time up the checkbook no because they rise as percentages of the cap not as so they'll just get whatever percentage of the cap is so yeah no that's why it didn't matter if Tatum Sid his extension now or next year you know like that's why the whole thing was oh why don't they wait yeah the league continues to try and make it hard for the Celtics to win no one's surprised if it was the Lakers they'd be able to do it I tell you that okay uh I don't know how to respond to you anymore sometimes like the end of our last clip was just uh last short was do you know how to have work I promise listeners when I when I don't give a response it's not because I have nothing to like I'm upset everything I just genuinely don't have responses to what he says anymore like I have nothing I have nothing to give you on that what do you want me to say it's [ __ ] stupid I can't if I say that's stupid every time people are just getting get your fast going there knock it back and forth a little bit play some tennis I just gotta move on uh next NBA thing your Pistons Sams are making moves uh Kade Cunningham has signed a 5-year Max extension and on top of that they claimed Paul R off waivers um it does feel like they are putting together a more competent roster than ones they have had in the past I can pull up um their roster on spot track just to see what it looks like now so right now their roster uh top to bottom looks like Kade Cunningham Tobias Harris Tim Hardway Jr Isaiah Stewart assar Thompson Ron Holland Jaden iy Paul Reed Simone fono Malik Beasley Jaylen Duren that's a pretty good roster like they're probably going to roll out a starting lineup uh Kade Cunningham uh Jaden Ivy Tobias Harris Jaylen Durand and maybe assar Thompson and then bring Simone fono um Off the Bench Isaiah Stewart Off the Bench Tim Hardway Jr R Holland Off the Bench Paul Reed Off the Bench Malik Beasley Off the Bench Marcus Sasser Off the Bench like they've got a pretty good team like that's not a bad basketball team I mean every time every time they like when they signed Beasley when they went and got Tim Hardaway Jr statmuse ran to the keyboard and they put out the tweets of like hey this guy Tim Hardaway Jr double the amount of Threes made as the next highest player on the Pistons last year same thing with Malik Beasley like clearly they can play better ball if they have guys making threes by the way did you see um picture of the Pistons put out of uh very handsome JB bicker staff and the zip up no on Twitter oh I see him yeah shout out also he got the shaft Simone fono by the way like I feel like people don't realize how good he was in Detroit do you know how good he was in Detroit who was he around 15 points a game and he shot thre pretty well yeah so so he was oh my computer went black screen that's fun uh he played that happen to me every once in a while 16 games in Detroit 30 minutes a game 15.4 points 4.4 rebounds 1.8 assists on 48% from the field and 43% from three and over six threes a game I told you I pay attention that's really good is I mean with how weak the bottom of the East is or the mid middle of the East is it wouldn't surprise me if they are sneaking on the door of a rocket season you know what I'm saying maybe play I like that well yeah that's what I'm saying knocking on the door of a playing spot could be fun I I do think they'll probably just miss out again because I do think I think the Raptors are better I think the Hawks are better right now you don't know what's gonna happen with the Hawks they could change things but I don't know we'll see we'll see I do think Kade Cunningham will be closer to Trey young this year than Trey young is to like Next Level point guards yeah like I think he'll make that jump so I mean k played good ball last year like I just remember watching him well one play the Celtics but I remember the game before they got to play the Celtics for that record losing streak they lost to Brooklyn and I just remember watching Cade like go nuclear and it was it didn't matter like they were they were matter what have you seen the the meme on Twitter going around I can't find it but it was like who had the hardest job NBA last year and was like oh this person this person it was just Kade like hunched over like crying poor guy he played decently I I'll pull up Kade stats you keep talking I just want to know for myself Kade Cunningham last year for the Pistons only appeared in 62 games it's more than I thought body average 23 points 4.3 rebounds 7.5 assists shooting 45 35 and a half from the field and 87% from three damn good player turnovers I mean uh 3.4 so not amazing so not great for for a high usage guy that's not as bad as you think the the the percentages are encouraging as a high usage guy like you mentioned on that was his best three point percentage by far best by far like his years before it was 31 and 28 and now he would jum to 35 and a half like better significantly so fire Pistons might be back watch out for the Pistons I told you last year I was just a year early we'll see might have been wrong um next thing Chris Paul had his introductory press conference with the Spurs uh few things trickling out of that apparently Tim Duncan man of and Tony Parker reached out to him uh once he signed uh and then also said this about wanyama Victor wanyama said there's probably no player in the league that every player in the league talks about after the game like him basically like after you play wemi everyone goes back in the locker room it's like what the [ __ ] was that holy [ __ ] like it does feel like wemi is wem's coming man W W's not coming wem's here like like it rookie season wemy 71 games 21.4 points 10.6 rebounds 3.9 assists 1.2 steals 3.6 blocks a game and that was and as I said to you at multiple points throughout the season this is probably the worst he'll ever be that is [ __ ] terrifying to think about like Sam obviously he's like when's the last time a player put their career high in blocks in their rookie season he's probably gonna average more blocks at some point in his career I if not for the fact that he gets better but for the fact that he didn't even play 30 minutes a game last year played 29.7 like holy [ __ ] trying to think like guys that are really good as like maybe like Greg Odin Ben you know I'm saying like this [ __ ] is gonna be nasty and shout out to Spurs who have probably one of the best organizations in like best run organizations and Sports in terms of connecting their past history keeping guys involved stuff like that like to like those are no that's why I said one like the Celtics are another good example them the Spurs the Lakers as much you don't like it like they do a good job of connecting the past to the present um this W be [ __ ] like they're going to roll out a starting lineup of Chris Paul Devon vasel Harrison Barnes Kellin Johnson and W next year that it's gonna be pretty good it's gonna be pretty good can't believe I'm gonna have to start hating wmy soon that first time he plays well against the Celtics it's on the big blue blg just liked my tweet so they follow me they follow you I don't know why is it got to be a competition why can't you just be happy for me it's stolen or Island Valor what you're doing right now I saw that tweet I saw you retweet the Tweet today and I almost if like I could reply to your specific retweet I would have been like this is this is stolen R and Valor shut the [ __ ] up why didn't you tweet it then huh slacking rala native that's what I thought you didn't say [ __ ] you didn't say I told you I I rat listed the big blue bug because they supported uh the bridge they were on some [ __ ] about the bridge traffic that's probably just the government thing well it's good advertising for them they all the people star at the bug yeah they're like Pro Bridge construction I'm sitting there traffic on 95 and I'm like oh look at the bug there's nibbles did you know his name was nibbles I found out today you know they dress him up like Rudolph yes I think we saw this last year shout out it's like a big thing they have a press release and everything that goes out anyways next thing uh Lori marinan is could just end up staying with the Jazz uh this comes from Tony Jones of the athletic um notes that after scouring or assessing the market a little bit said there are several within the league who have grown Mor commend at the Jazz after exploring the trade market for marinin plan to renegotiate and extend marinin using their saved up cap space Also noted that one of the teams uh interested in him was the Warriors who have preserved marinin amid their attempts to retool following the departure of Klay Thompson Jones stated that golden states front office quote showed an increased willingness to use their future draft capital in their failed pursuit of Paul George and stalled Chase of Mark so they were willing to sort of shell out for those guys but it does seem like Markin in's going to stay in in Utah and I said it once I'm going to say it again this just feels like a Mel bridg situation to me it just feels the exact sameir like what has like more a little more youth they've done a better job putting youth yes they have more youth they also have more assets like they have more draft picks and stuff than the Nets did before the bridges trade because they had gutted their draft picks for James Harden yeah so I think they're a little bit better off and they like it's like less deplorable that they're just kind of keeping them there yeah no they have I mean like they have kante George they have Cody Williams now they have like they have enough young guys where it makes more sense and Brooklyn didn't really have that but still it just feels like with the progression like they'd have to have real like big jumps from some of those young guys in order for them to stay like the Spurs are going to be better in the the next year I think the Rockets are going to be better than next year they're probably be the second worst team in the Western Conference next year I know right like I'm not gonna adopt the Jazz I've already adopted the Pistons but I do like sneak the Blazers are going to be worse than them and that's it period Spur's better Grizzly's better Rocket's better Warrior better Kings Pelicans Lakers Suns M everyone's gonna be better outside of the Blazers like and less injuries like and that and even if like you would need four other teams to get injured to have a real shot or Keon George to take a massive leap or Cody Williams to be great off the rip or like they're they're shopping Walker Custer right now too so he's not even a part of their thing like like Walker kler they're shopping for a first round pick is the report like flipping through in my head a lot of good teams I I named them all the teams that didn't make the play in or playoffs this year Rockets Jazz Grizzlies Spurs Blazers Grizz the only one worse and even the Blazers might be better than the Jazz think about it abdia is still there could take a seconde leap like Jeremy Grant yeah Cooper flag maybe for that not even because the Jazz are still better than the bottom like four teams in the Eastern Conference the Nets suck the Hornets suck the maybe not the Pistons the Wizards suck at the very least you know what I'm saying there's objectively three teams in the East who should definitely be worse than the jzz so like that's the top three lottery spots gone if they don't really tank I don't know it just feels like the Jazz are in an awkward spot to me they should have Danny go out there and play get after it um speaking of Cooper flag though Cooper flag recently dominated uh the Team USA scrimmage I'll pull up the highlights here so we can take a little bit of a look um but I wrote a whole article today about the Wizards like all right Wizards you saw what you need to saw start taking a little harder now guys start your engines get Kevin James out there for the tanks yeah I will say it is unfortunate that uh he could end up in the [Music] um uh Celtics division they got to play him a couple times a year he's going to be on the Celtics someday Brooklyn it's not going to be now h someday maybe we never know but I don't think so yep no shock that he scored with de Booker who in here's Defender let's see here him switch off these are extended highlights they're let him handle the ball and everything this is no joke right over bam dude he oh the show misses too I like that we get everything did you see the viral clip of sorry I'm like spacing out you see the viral clip of wem's block against for in practice no I didn't did you see in short CH what Celtics you got to annunciate your words whenever you go like voice schroer were choking each other oh really yeah it looked like the Larry Dr J of like FEA Europe no I had no idea shout out Cooper flag all right let's look at some of these highlights Cooper flag was really good we saw some of this highlights but um what was it I'll go to Twitter Evan forier and Schroeder they're arguing over whose Celtics tenure is worse forier schroer let's see oh wow okay yeah yeah they got into it oh my God okay yeah here we go here we go so here's for and schroer uh getting a little hostile oh my God this this was crazy was there a foul oh my God oh my God why did sh go up to him and just put his hand his neck immediately that's crazy they kind of like threw him down a little bit there was a little little Mal inent and then they're all good then they're all are they good now what is I don't know if they're good there's still any yeah oh he took his hand off the shoulder H yeah there's I like the 4ier I like the forier finally let the hair go it looks better feel a lot of guys should go bald I agree yeah CH each other watch this one Bama block though I know King of the fourth quarter retweeted it but I wonder if I could just find it yeah watch this is like this is terrifying okay isn't on the screen for you can you see yep I see it watch this literally gets turned around and just [ __ ] whoa you see what I mean oh my God yeah that might be a go tend I don't think so uh maybe but the fact that he's even capable of almost getting there is like he just jumped ball backwards and is big enough to get that insane pretty sad that you don't have the Eagle Eye see the gold tent all right let's go to the right let's see uh what you got for me go [ __ ] yourself preat list is the heat I I've been seeing these clips of poor F forsberg out there in Vegas he looks like he's I'm watching him get sunburn live on camera yeah like not great I saw I think I saw a clip of him yesterday and then I saw one today and he looks like way redder today looks he looks like he's getting cooked out there the poor guy it's going to be us walking around yeah ratas getting a new phone process was just so much harder than I thought what you do um I just went on excuse me sorry um my phone's really old I've had it for like five years and I think the charging port was given out a little bit because it takes me like I have to like fiddle with it every time I want to charge it and also I I was switching over to my mom's plan and they had like a deal at Verizon where you could just get a new phone and pay a little extra up front and then just go normally on the deal like because you'll have it for whatever so I I figured fine camera's better it's the newest phone now shout out my mom whatever um but talking about Verizon good for you doing uh little videos of exactly also huge like unironically huge um but yeah it's just a pain in the ass like I still can't receive calls like if you called me right now it wouldn't come up like it'll send you right to voicemail like I got a FaceTime from my mom but I think that's cuz it's iMessage but like cellular is still like they were like oh yeah it might take 24 to 72 hours to kick in how is that a thing you're going to be walking down Vegas getting green bubbles on your phone for real no no no iMessage work so I can send and receive texts I just like yeah but you're not gonna have service calls right now no I have I have service fine everything's fine I have everything it's just in you service but you don't have cellular I can call you but your call won't pop up which is like that might actually be the best it's also not bad but not ideal cuz I'm traveling and also like if I can go on M Mobile's website right now download an eim card and automatically have everything how the [ __ ] why is this a 72-hour process like why why is this taking that long and also ratas the Verizon store I wasn't there but my mom called me she goes there are four people in this Verizon store all they have to do is scan a barcode and let me pick up the phone because it's ready I got the message that it's ready but apparently of the four of them only one of them can do it which one doesn't make sense scan barod pick up and two they were talking with an old lady who couldn't decide what phone to get because the model she wanted wasn't there and the model she wanted was a [ __ ] flip F yeah she was looking she was looking for one with the the spinner on it literally and and my mom was like so none of you can help me and they're like no we're really sorry like how she's like four people came up to me to try to help me and they said oh yeah only know this one person can scan the code and give you the pickup order that makes no sense it's just anyways yeah R list she was doing she was trying to get samples at the at the uh store for real for real pull up RJ's rat list he sent us one of the I'll get the rat off the screen you pull up the email get RJ uh RJ's rat list today shout out RJ if you'd like to email us with your rat list again hbtc pod atgmailcom RJ sent us H his excuse me he says rat list your order has shipped emails that lie hey guys as a fan as a Celtics fan who is ordering all his championship loot online I like getting notices of when to expect my schwag to arrive but absolutely rless those companies who send you emails title your order has shipped when all they've done is printed damn label and the merch may still be weeks away from actually being put on the truck I don't know what circle of hell is appropriate for him but there has to be one be well RJ yeah how long as you think you've waited for an item to come in um couple months I don't remember what it was but I know I've I've waited like a long time for stuff before so I think back during covid my friend was trying to get a oddly enough a replica Celtics Banner the 2008 Banner for his basement it might have taken like four or five months to get to him from Amazon that is crazy that's insane um the worst ones are the spam emails that say oh your order shipped whatever and then they have like put the PDF in there and so you have to like check the email cuz the email is the only giveaway like you have to like hit the button down to see if like because it's obviously not like it's obviously a spam email but you can't really tell until you check it I get a lot of those my emails are just full of spam it's not fun um rat list packing man I have to pack after we finish this I do too I forgot how much I hate packing and the wor you know what's worse unpacking when you get back because you're ready to be done with all of it and then you still got the thing you got all the clothes in there probably going to have to do laundry out there be there a while H I don't think so probably not bring five shirts five pairs of shorts you're good yeah but like we're gonna like well I'm gonna exercise and if we play basketball it's another sweat session it's true I feel like that might be more difficult than like to find a place to play basketball than you think it probably is would be down I'll probably still bring sneakers I'm down no I will too you know what ralas for me is this the glass screen protector do you know the glass like you put on the front of your phone to protect from like scratching and stuff I tried putting this [ __ ] [ __ ] you know who doesn't use anything for his phone I didn't on my old one either but um you don't have a case on your phone Wizards threee 20 million go on have to write about that he's hurt he's gonna be hurt for a lot next season though because he tore his ACL um but anyways I tried putting it on last night the [ __ ] air bubbles you have to like press out that's tough it's bad I I got so mad I wish I kept it I just snapped it I'm like [ __ ] this and I had to buy snapped it yeah yeah I got pissed I was like [ __ ] this and then also Ras my dumbass who bought this at Target for 30 bucks and then I got a pack of four for $ five in Amazon am I [ __ ] stupid yeah no you are dumb well I I was worried that I I might not be able to like get them shipped in time but of course I'm just a do you know how Amazon Works they'll show up later that day they'll be there in five minutes knock going on your door I'm rat list uh speaking of deliveries at my house so you've been here our house is close to like water so yes we have to have like our main living quarters like a floor up so we have a basement but it's technically like the first floor when you like approach the house like the whole lower level is just basement non living space there's a door down there rat list the UPS drivers that do not bring the packages up the stairs now let me first and foremost I don't care I'm not ordering stuff online but I got to listen to the people that do care complain about it my mom put a sign on the door down down on the bottom that was like this this is not where you drop off the packages and the next day it got ripped off they weren't having it they ripped it off the door I was home last week and uh the the truck pulled up and she was like I bet they're not going to bring it up and I just like walked down and got it it's not that I mean my parents older so I I gave him a break walking up and down the stairs isn't easy after you do it a billion times it's tough uh Rat list or a anti-rat list but rat list for being weird not not for being like bad so I was on support with Verizon like on the thing they're very helpful was actually that's never fun no it was how how many robots did you have to talk to First none none they sent me right to which which is why it's anti- rless because it was very like it was good but I I said something along the lines of like thank you so much for your help we I really appreciate it whatever and they sent me back no problem anything for a valued customer with a heart emoji I'm like are are they flirting with me right now is what the [ __ ] is why are we sending hard emojis emojis is where I draw the line guys like let's not let's emojis are weird you know what I'm saying and they sent like multiple heart emojis and multiple different messages I was like guys let's let's Breathe Here for a minute I feel like that almost makes you feel like you're getting scammed yeah I because they don't they don't know how to communicate with you properly literally and there were a couple like misspelling I was like maybe it was AI taking our jobs it was weird man no it was definitely a person because they were like typos and stuff so it was very weird but rat list is I I hate the summer man I know like I think every time we do a rat list I just come on here and [ __ ] about it Winter's better yeah you know how hard it is to get out there and run no I'm going out and running today I'm I'm trying to go short like I'm so washed running right now it's making me feel bad it's making me not even want to get up and go running I'm getting Scourge because of the heat it's tough miles today it's people listening to this are going to be like shut the [ __ ] up dude but like yes correct this has to be like what it feels like like when you're coming off an injury and like you can't quite do like you don't have like the same bounce that you used to have or whatever like I I got hurt a little bit like rolled my ankle like I've had tightness in my legs like I haven't been as consistent running as I would like to be and then I'm trying to get back in the swing of things with Mr Sun shining down on me in the middle of the day it's brutal it's tough it's tough they gotta ban that ban the summer yeah globing man uh you got anything else that's all I got yeah I'll let you go play FIFA all right sound I genuinely have nothing else but um I I don't have anything like I'm not sharp right now so no fair enough all right appreciate y'all for tuning in make sure to leave a like subscribe and I'll let Sam take it out yeah thank you very much for listening and watching make sure you subscribe to the channel hit the Bell so you don't miss any of our daily uploads coming at you with new content at 5:00 a.m. so be on the lookout for the pods Tuesday Thursday and Sunday as we roll up to Summer League here got to keep your eyes peeled for these preview videos we got couple more coming for the rest of the week to get you ready for Saturday's debut game for the summer Seas so hit the Bell leave a like again subscribe 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