After the Luka blockbuster, could Kevin Durant be next? #NBA What does Celtics insider, Mego think of the Luka/Davis trade and the upcoming rumors?
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00:00Couple days removed from the trade of the century. Where are you on that?
00:04I
00:06Still can't believe they did it. It's it's a bizarre trade and
00:11All the stuff coming out about Luca being so upset because he had just bought a house in Dallas
00:16It's just so unusual for a move of this
00:20Stature to be under wraps up until it happens and it's so unusual for a player not to get shocked
00:27Beyond just one team and that is the strangest part of it all to me
00:32I wonder if we'll get any other major moves right before tomorrow's deadline because
00:37Brian Wynhorse was just on ESPN talking about Golden State really
00:42Exploring the possibility of bringing Kevin Durant back there
00:46Which would be just another huge trade even though he and Steph Curry are
00:51Past the primes that you're seeing the Jays in right now
00:54It's you don't usually get this kind of fireworks at the trade deadline
00:57Speaking of Kevin Durant, was it the wall Kyrie Irving was talking about the grieving process. Did he also get into?
01:05his
01:06His claim that the way he wanted things to go here
01:12in Boston was
01:14That the three of them were talking about it. It was
01:18Kyrie and AD and KD and they wanted to play here
01:24with Jason Tatum
01:27Yeah that there's a lot to unpack in the
01:31Answers that he gave to Tim von temps who put it out there on Twitter this morning is when I saw it
01:37But he basically was saying this was something that was in Danny Ange's power
01:42That he could have facilitated these trades that would bring Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant here. What would have to go out?
01:49He didn't really specify but he said it wasn't gonna be Jason Tatum and you have to imagine with trades of that level
01:54It would have if this ever was gonna happen. It would have been
01:58Jalen Brown in 2018, maybe a piece like Al Horford because you're looking at
02:04Contracts and the levels that those guys were in in 2018. There weren't a ton of guys
02:09roster right
02:11It's just so you know, it's it was a really odd thing to put out there what seven years later
02:18But that's but he said the three of them had had multiple conversations about it
02:23That's what they wanted. I'm glad they didn't go that way. Yeah, so and he said I've ultimately he said that that's what splintered the locker room
02:30in 2018 because
02:32Rumors, he said rumors of that came out and the young guys were not ready to deal with their names being in trade rumors to
02:39Which I say yeah, I wouldn't be about that either
02:44Looking over and saying let's not throw my name out there. I would like to be on this team
02:49Do you feel like Jalen still feels that way because every single season his name's brought up. I
02:54Think having the supermax has to help
02:57so hopefully that the supermax
03:00Having the NBA Finals MVP the Easter Conference Finals MVP
03:04There's been a lot of things that he's earned here as a Celtic
03:08Since having his name in trade rumors that you would hope would smooth over the relationship and keep him happy
03:13And he just seems like the dude where it's like, all right, if you want to trade me go ahead
03:17I got my ring. Oh, that's not what people were saying
03:23Right now okay, if you were to ask Jalen Brown right now if
03:28Like I don't think he wants to get traded, but I think he would be like I got my ring. I got my supermax
03:34I got my
03:36Finals MVP. He probably is past it. Like if you want to trade me go ahead. That's that's the league
03:41I'll go wherever I'm still gonna be who I am right now
03:45If you were to ask Jalen Brown, I don't think he
03:48Is in the position where he trips about it no more because he's proven himself to the whole NBA
03:54I think the biggest indicator if you want to see whether Jalen's moved on beyond this story about
04:002018 from Kyrie Irving is that he and Kyrie are boys. So they're friends
04:05So if Kyrie was instrumental and going to Danny Ainge or whoever and saying let's bring a D and Kevin Durant here
04:12And that means Jalen has to go because we're gonna build around Jason Tatum. Well, it seems like everybody's moved on
04:18That's what I say. He moved on. Who do you think the I know the Lakers are the winners of the trade?
04:25But there's been a lot of people out there basketball people saying in the short term
04:31that Dallas
04:34might be the
04:37The the better complete team right now when it comes to Kyrie AD and the way they set up
04:43Versus LeBron and Luca where where do you kind of see that?
04:48Well, it just diversifies the Mavs a lot more because when you had Luka Kyrie, we all saw the finals last year
04:53It just wasn't a defensive team when you bring in somebody like 80
04:57That's still one of the best two-way players in the league and he's probably the most elite rim
05:02Protector in the entire league, so it just gives a totally different dimension to the Mavs
05:06I don't think it really changes them significantly in the West
05:10There's a couple of really strong teams out there
05:13So I still think that the Celtics are the ones to beat overall and you saw what they did against the top seed
05:20Cleveland last night where they led pretty much the entire game and so like does it really change anything for the Celtics that much
05:28I know but for the Lakers, that's a long-term play and that's the thing where everybody's looking
05:33Is there another shoe that's gonna drop if LeBron truly didn't know about this
05:37Does that signal that now LeBron's gonna be on the move somewhere because they don't you know
05:42Look at him and say give us your input on trading away someone who's also under clutch sports who represents LeBron
05:49I just think what the way that the Lakers are looking at it is this is their LeBron insurance plan
05:54So LeBron's 40 once his chapter is done with the Lakers. This is where they're moving. They're going to the Lucas show
06:01Where do you stand on?
06:03conspiracy Kurt's theory that the NBA drove this
06:07from a
06:09ratings perspective
06:10Yeah, I think Curtis you're not serious about that. Are you?
06:15What is this like rigged stuff why does everybody want
06:18You watch the NBA
06:23Yes, so the Pau Gasol trade in 2008 from the Memphis Grizzly Grizzly's
06:29to the
06:31Lakers in that offseason following Donaghy Barnes was reportedly in Santa Barbara training with the Memphis Grizzly's
06:39Bombed off my ass
06:41Anyway, the the year ends with the sweep of the Spurs over the Cavs
06:46Lowest rated NBA Finals of all time and then the Donaghy new story breaks about rigging games
06:53Whatever that summer Kevin Garnett was traded to the Celtics by Kevin McHale
06:59then in
07:00Season the Lakers got Gasol Celtics Lakers got into the NBA Finals immediately after the worst season in the history of the NBA
07:07Boom, they're back this year in advance of this trade Adam Silver was on the Dan Patrick show talking about shortening games
07:15The only storyline in the NBA has been why is nobody watching?
07:19Well, that's not the only storyline though because the Christmas Day games had the highest ratings in the last five years and that Warriors
07:26Lakers game had over 400 percent higher ratings than the time slot in the last five years
07:33Yeah
07:33but they got demolished by the NFL in comparison on Christmas a day that was entirely owned by the NBA is now dominated by Netflix
07:40with the Texans Chiefs in those games and I would add
07:44That the one weekend of the year
07:46Where you are insured to have no NFL
07:49Overshadow you the bye week in between the conference championship in the Super Bowl a deal of this magnitude comes out of nowhere
07:58Where the Lakers and LeBron get one last kick at the game
08:02So Choms was talking about this in the build-up of it. This was rumored
08:06Why would you not talk to any other team but one?
08:09The Lakers Curtis you can say that the Lakers have an unfair advantage because they're an LA team and guys want to go play there
08:16And they are basically the Cowboys of the NBA. And so we see this happen over and over and over again
08:23Where's another example where an NBA team was trading a superstar of this magnitude and didn't discuss it with any other potential suitor?
08:29Well, no, this is unprecedented, but that doesn't mean that it's rigged. Well, I just think that that's like don't waste time
08:34I go so they're just dumb
08:38Who's dumb the Dallas Mavericks that's not for me to say well
08:45Well, it's either dumb or rigged one of the two I mean
08:49Honestly when a lot of people think that there's a conspiracy theory I say this goes for all walks of life
08:54No, just dumb. There are dumb people everywhere
09:01May go you're wasting your time because he went from the league to then
09:05LeBron
09:07Had a hand in this all going down. No, I said, there's no chance in hell LeBron was shocked by it
09:12No, you said LeBron was the man. I think that that it doesn't pass the smell test
09:15I like to say that it gives a lot of Aaron Rodgers didn't know his coach was being fired, right? He was shocked
09:23Yeah, it does. All right
09:25Well good win last night
09:27Who are you picking on Sunday? I
09:31Would like to pick the Eagles even though I'm in and I know I'm an NFC East girl
09:35And I don't love the Eagles. I like Saquon and I really want that for him
09:40It's such a it's a it's I I love that in this
09:45Last season we got this resurgence at least for a while
09:49Both of running backs and Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley and you can go through other running backs that had terrific seasons
09:56And we had these
09:58Quarterbacks that everyone thought we're just toast. We're just done like Sam Darnold and yeah towards the end of playoffs
10:05They show themselves out, but you get these like resurgent stories, and I really like that
10:10So for a sake one, I would like to have the full narrative of it
10:14And if you want to hang out with Courtney and mega and who wouldn't next Thursday night Valentine's Day, we're beautiful
10:20We just might not have the attributes. You're looking for in a dinner
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