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show the NBA season is officially over the score went final about a minute ago the Boston
Celtics are your 2024 2023 2024 NBA champions defeated the Dallas Mavericks in game 5 106
to 88 with an epic bounce back after they got absolutely trounced in game 4 none of
the starters played the fourth quarter in game 4 in Dallas it was bad but the Celtics
bounced back they secure record number 18 NBA record they secure the first championship
in the Jalen Brown Jason Tatum era they secure Joe Mazzullo's first title as a head coach
Al Horford narrowly misses being the NBA record being the play with the most playoff games
played without a ring the Boston Celtics kick off a lot of demons a lot of stuff in this
group that had been in them for a while a lot of stuff that was gone they would have
lost this maybe something bubble to the surface this is Danny ain't not in angels this is
the first title that doesn't have Danny angels footprints on it since Bill Russell and he
drafted Tatum and Brown so his footprints in it but he's not he's not getting a ring
from this team at least ownership is nice this is Brad Stephenson's Brad Stevens creation
whether it was working with the players and then he went upstairs and got Edoca and then
he went up state then he got Joe Mazzullo after Edoca had his incident so this has got
Brad Stevens fingerprints all on it this has drew Holliday his fingerprints are all over
this championship before we dive too far into congratulations and all the other stuff and
we'll keep you guys posted on who's finals MVP and etc when it is announced so you'll
get my instant reaction to that I at the moment think is Jalen Brown he was the most consistent
over the five games I would not be mad at drew Holliday but I think it's gonna end up
being Jalen Brown for his work on Luca there's no stopping Luca there's only slowing Luca
and I think Brown's gonna get it for his work on Luca so that has a 10.04 p.m. Central Standard
Time 11.04 in the East Coast with the city of Boston I'm sure is going insane they're
gonna have the parade down the river like the tradition does they have a parade down
the river so they're gonna have to pray down the river again but again before I dive too
far off into that I want to congratulate the Dallas Mavericks man they had the harder road
there's no doubt about that I won't dare sit here and try to make excuses for Dallas they
played dumb some moments Jason Kidd frustrated me a lot I was telling my wife actually right
after halftime of this game that man like Jason Kidd's frustrating you know it was like
I made a lot of jokes about Darvin Ham being a bad coach and that was mostly true and mostly
just showing him the fun I'm gonna admit but Jason Kidd frustrates me I put him I put Jason
Kidd on the mantle for game two I believe it was game two where they were Charlie were
down 20 something and he charged 21 and he charged all the way back to make it down one
and then there there are there are 20 to 2 run and then he calls a timeout when the Mavs
had the ball and it looks like on these are semi fast break now I spoke about the last
podcast it was a couple of snubs game three yeah it was in Dallas it was a couple of frazzled
possessions back and forth Dallas the little off Boston looked a little off but both sides
were off Dallas still had the ball down like either one or three I believe they're not
again they also said one I thought it was three but regardless within one possession
Dallas has the ball they're coming down your best player has it it's not like PJ Washington
offense to him is taking off the court dribbling like it's not like you know one of these um
felt like Derek Lively trying to take it to the court like no they've your best player
had it your leader had it it's in it's in your building you have the momentum and you
kill it with a timeout you get a bad shot Boston hits a great shot and the air comes
out of the crowd so one possession goes to two it feels like it's three or four the air
is out of the crowd and now you feel like you know especially with um especially with
your best player as vocal I will say as Luke Adonchis is and as cerebral as he is you know
you had to be thinking man we had him and coach called the timeout right um because
I was saying it I'm like man you got him you got him like you got and then j kid calls
the timeout kills momentum so in this game end of the first quarter Celtics are up I
can't think of the exact score but they're up it's very it's a small lead shot gets hit
so it goes from I think from six to nine or somewhere that nature and shot three gets
hit now I'm watching the game doing the timeouts and be like timeout just as a guy who's going
for Boston this series um I'm just doing timeout there's no timeout so I'm looking I go okay
it's like 40 something seconds left in the first I'm okay you gotta stay tethered um
you gotta stay tethered because what you didn't want was you didn't want a team like a Boston
in their building a lot of pressures on them and a lot of um a lot of pressures on them
and a lot of pressure can be lifted off of them if they get out early which you didn't
what Boston had to avoid was like how they started in Dallas and even in one of the Boston
games they look up and they were down 19 9 and Mazzou was calling timeout you couldn't
have that because now the crowds quiet you know Kyrie trying to hit a couple shots like
you you just didn't want that to happen right but instead it's like 48 seconds left um
give or take and um j kid doesn't call a timeout Boston comes back stretches the lead the lead
was nine it goes to 15 like he stretches out frustrated I'm okay whatever you get to the
exact same scenario almost to a tee at the end of the first half this time it's like
two minutes left again Boston makes a baby run um and I'm look okay again I'm doing
the um I'm doing the timeout simple again I'm doing a timeout simple no timeout again
the lead goes from I think Dallas had it at 12 down 12 Peyton Pritchard hits a hit so
another half court buzzer beater and it makes 21 and it's okay like that was that was the
game you you could have had an opportunity you lost four ish minutes of game time by
about 15 points that's the ball game because now at that point you're fighting from down
21 even if you say call the timeout and Boston still hits you okay well you tried to me j
kid watched his team flounder tonight um I don't know if that was some sort of overcorrection
from what happened in game three that he felt like okay I may have yanked the reins on I
should let him play it but um that's a different situation I think when you're you have the
momentum you let your guys play out a couple of bad possessions when you don't have it
when you're losing it I think you stop them um and so to me that was an error by Jason
kid um in these two games I think that you know I said we bag a lot on Darwin Ham situationally
I thought Darwin Ham wasn't bad in terms of timeouts I thought he wasn't bad now he was
slandered on Twitter oh Darwin 12 to run what you doing it showed like Arthur with his hand
in his pocket it's like there was jokes like that on Twitter um but in general for the
most part when I felt like a timeout should be called I'm no I mean you know I'm not a
basketball NBA head coach but I felt like just from what I've watched the game a timeout
should be called he called it let him play he kind of let him play for the most part
like so that cool other stuff but it was like three noticeable incidents in this series
uh killing your own run and then not killing any of the either of the touches runs tonight
to me were three big blunders j kid had in this series but shout out Boston man they
were the best team all season um they made two big moves before the season started that
end up being deciding factors in the series and in their championship run they traded
for drew holiday and they traded for Chris that's poor zingas um effectively for nothing
in both trades uh said Brad Stevens has his fingerprints all over this he learned from
Danny Ainge um make it work Brad Stevens is quickly becoming one of those guys or if he
isn't one of those guys he should be now um he should be one of those guys that if he
calls your phone hang up because he basically got drew holiday and Chris that's for zingas
for nothing i can't remember either trade in terms of value what the other person um
what the other team got or i can tell you what Dallas got for actually no grant Williams
is what uh Dallas got for Chris that's for zingas he's not even on the Dallas Mavericks
roster drew holiday was part of the Dame trade was part of the Dame trade officially and
they just extended it and brought in Boston which at no point i question Milwaukee on
that one because i'm not i'm not letting drew holiday come back east so if you're gonna
if you're gonna go um if you're gonna redirect drew holiday he's not coming back east but
that's either here nor there uh Danny Ainge has his fingerprints all over this title uh
just gone actually official as well Jalen Brown is your 2024 uh finals MVP um like i
can say i i thought so at 10 on 4 at 10 18 it was confirmed um so that was one situation
where he's been the best player all series it came down to him and drew uh in my opinion
i didn't see the voting but it came down to him and drew and i just felt that he did more
um on both sides the ball especially defensively than drew holiday did um because drew didn't
have a lot of the switches um but Jalen Brown took responsibility of guarding Luca and to
me when you already have such an offensive situation taking their responsibility of guarding
Luca was huge um and that's what Jalen Brown did so congratulations to him for winning
finals MVP um but now let's look at both teams what's next of course for boston to pray for
dallas it's a quiet flight home i'm not a lot of you for dallas is a quiet flight home
actually what's weird is for boston this may be one of those teams with a party scene isn't
that crazy like i'm sure the organization may have set up a party but you're like miami
had like a little wayne and the live club um and then they was in vegas like yeah i
spent the shirtless for like a week uh when when the calves won um you know you hear about
these legendary parties i'm looking at boston i don't see the party um in terms of i look
at jason tatum like he's probably going home with deuce um i think he's i think he's still
elemy like they're about to have a private celebration jalen brown's a quiet no offense
nerd i don't i don't see him going out clubbing um drew holiday is potentially flying home
to his family or flying his family in maybe his family's already in town like you know
i'm saying like al horford's like 70 poor zingas is hurt uh payton pritchard doesn't
strike me as a party animal neither the sam hauser so he's talking about derek white feels
like guys gonna go home this family like i don't see the big party uh that a lot of the
teams i always talk about the legendary you know they fly um they fly to this one and
they fly to this city and then they fly to this club and like i mean their head coaches
are devout christians shout out him shout out joe mazzullia like i don't see this team
being the big party type um but there's no bad there's not even a bad guy to carry the
party like who's the bad guy on boston who's the guy that's like oh he's known for getting
on partying like nobody like i don't see the big party happening with dallas with boston
rather but uh like i said they're gonna have the parade they're gonna parade down the river
celtics tradition um and then at that point what's next okay so let's let's start off
with the challenges i started with tnf and then second the dallas mavericks so now everything's
about luca donchich right getting luca donchich to sign a long-term extension jason kitt is
resigned for a long term uh gm i can't think of his name nico harrison he signed on for
a long term career ever has a multi-year deal he signed last offseason the last piece of
the puzzle truly is luca donchich and it's not like the piece in the middle you remember
um from our basketball heads when the calves was winning the title in 2016 they made a
puzzle and it was 16 pieces you need 16 wins in the playoff to win a title it was 16 pieces
and the final piece was pretty decent sized shape of ohio right that was you know that
was the centerpiece it was right in the middle the top of the larry o'brien because i remember
like it was yesterday um and there was you know the piece of ohio missing luca donchich
it just picture the larry o'brien luca donchich is the base the ball and the net so if it's
not one of those three things that's how much that's what's left for the rest of the mavericks
like that's how important he is to the dallas mavericks franchise um he is the franchise
if luca donchich decides tomorrow i'm looking for green and pastures dallas is screwed um
and so that's the situation in dallas everything turns to being luca donchich like i said they
did a lot of their offseason work early kairi was last summer um j kid was earning the early
in the playoffs nico harrison resigned at the same time as he did um one of the big
things they're gonna have to do is they're gonna have to lock up lively well lively is
a rookie they're gonna have to lock up gaffer they're gonna have to lock up washington i'm
not sure what their contractual situation is if they're extension eligible they're gonna
come knock at the table the new owners have a lot of money that is one thing i will never
be as the nba on they don't get broke new owners um there's rumors about the lakers not having the
best um cash flow which is why um they lose out on coaches and stuff like that because they're
talking about the lakers don't have the best cash for the kid with these new owners um because
the lakers are a fairly wealthy franchise okay so i'm looking at it 2024 just ended so pj watch has
two more years left okay so pj washington um is still on the contract who as i said derrick
like with pj washington who's the other one um that i mentioned pj washington who's the other big daniel
gafford um gonna look up his contract really quickly he signed a four-year four-year deal
with the wizards but when was that in 2021 and that's sports key them looking for spot rack
there we go um kind of get a lot behind the scenes here guys so he's on the contract two more years
as well so all their bigs are on the contract that was huge you know carriere situation he's
got two more years on his deal as well so i can say everything looks look at donchich think about
everybody have name the way that was him think about everybody that was important in this series
unless josh green's deal is up which i don't know his contractual situation unless his deal is up i
like him if he goes to free agent he's gonna he's gonna get some money um no and dad has already
paid him he has two he has three more years left on his deal because he signed a three-year four
to a million dollar deal um with the math's uh his rookie extension so he's got three more years off
so kudos to him because i was like man i was watching him play this series like somebody's
gonna pay him but he he's a guy that like if i was in new orleans pelicans i would go get him
like he he's a guy that can play san Antonio spurs looking for people around wimby they could
have had derrick whitey said they hit no there but looking for people around wimby
uh josh green is the kind of guy you'd want around wimby um so yeah so kudos to dallas so everything
revolves around luca everything revolves around luca at this point um
um because his contract extension decides the fate of the franchise um it's just that simple
um it's not even it's not even a debate his contract well he can sign his contract extension
so he's on the contract the next two years automatically he has a player option three
years from now but they can get rid of the player option and he has two years left and sign him to
the supermax extension um believe this off season and so because tatum's about to do the same thing
tatum's about to negotiate and sign his as well um but everything's about getting luca to at minimum
be committed enough to be a dallas maverick long term that's every that's all that has to do is
off season they've done everything else really really well flip it to boston boston has some
issues i think our horford's last basketball game was with whom we just watched i do i think our
horford's done it wouldn't shock me if drew holliday says this has been fun now drew is playing at a
much higher level than our horford is our horfords played 17 years a lot of people said the last two
or three years he kept playing because he really wanted the title um now he has a championship
who knows if our horford ever laces basketball shoes up again in a competitive nature um
i would disagree but i mean i would i would say horfords done right so that takes horford out the
mix porzengis and drew holidays contract extensions kick in next season brown's on a supermax tatum's
gonna sign a supermax is off season or at first available opportunity he's gonna ink a supermax
um and so that's your roster your roster is what you're looking at it's your pay it's them four
plus your payton pritchards plus your sam housers plus your derrick whites like they're gonna have
a really good team next year but you're gonna pull out horford out okay we don't know what porzengis
has to get done on his body if anything but horfords coming out of the group and you can't
replace that you can't go sign of it because once you over that second aprin in the collective
bargaining agreement you can't participate in the buyout market i believe you can't you can't
only sign minimum contracts you can't participate in the buyout market you can't get second round
picks you gotta go play off playing dollar for dollar in trades like it's very very restrictive
do i think boston has a shot to win it next year yes because again the only person i know you're
losing it's horford am i and could horford come back next year maybe um but you played 17 years
um he's been on i think he's been on three teams huh but definitely two teams dylan for a long time
knock at the door boston for a long time knocking at the door um and he was on philly for like an
hour or because he kept bothering him b till philly signed him for like an hour um and then he was
back on boston and you get the title so i said i just don't see horford coming back next year
you know when somebody wins executives and coaches start getting picked off
whether that's sam cassel goes and be a lead assistant somewhere whether that's guys lower
than brad stevens or maybe other guys on the bench we don't know from joe mazzolla start getting
higher assistant or higher management positions it happens every time somebody wins a championship
and then i'm looking at the east boston's probably gonna be in the finals again next year
i'm just i'm just looking at the east unless paul george is the sixer which i'm pretty sure
paul george is gonna be a philadelphia 76er then that changes everything then it's maxi paul george
and mb that changes everything out east presto chango to buy his hair to paul george that changes
a lot in these um but a little barring that um i don't really see because philly to me can beat
him because of imbede there's nobody i'll never imbede um new york just doesn't have the raw talent
indiana had him dead to rights so indiana could do it but it's a different level trying to beat a
team that has one as opposed to beating a team that can win um so indiana had a dead to rice three times
um trying to think what else i'd eat orlando's got some growing up to do
miami's always there so i mean melwalki so i mean you know they're gonna have a battle next year
um but if i had to pick right this second i'd pick boston to be back in the nba finals next year
against who knows who out of the west but i picked them right back i picked them to be right back
in the nba finals um next season just the way they're put together like i said barring
a lot of poaching organizationally um i would definitely uh pick the celtics to be right back
next season all right so we've talked about the two teams we talked about the ball and
celtics we congratulated them um we talked about the mavericks how they look for the next season
both teams the mavs were built for the future right boston was built to win now with a little
bit of a runaway that's why they make sure they sign porzingis long term they make sure they sign
johad a long term they're gonna give uh jason tatum um his supermax extension they said they're
starting five returns horford was a bench guy when porzingis showed up and then due to porzingis
injury porfer came back into the starting lineup now porzingis you know i'm saying healthy for next
season they're starting five returns but they're gonna have two supermaxes there's a lot of money
being paid in boston and porzingis is injury prone so porzingis gets hurt is your next guy
xavier tillman like that's gonna have to be something boston is gonna have to consider this off
season getting in a couple of vet men centers that can do a little damage just in case uh
porzingis has some bodily issues which is prone to do and drew out he's older as well so guard
depth is going to be important dallas is built for the future because talk about all three of their
bigs have two two years left luca has two plus one left kairi has two left um you know so i'm
thinking like those are the important guys they're three bigs and their two guards like that was the
important people um they all have at least two years left on the contract so dallas has got a
lot of runway left in this in this window of opportunity all right so real quickly though
we're going to shift to the off season so rule change that happened i always talk about the cba
the rule change that happened the last cba was that players can negotiate with their teams the
second the season ends if they're already on that team well justin could they do that in house
anyway technically no technically no technically the season would end in the regular season and
so the contract would end if they made the playoffs great you kept playing if you didn't
make the playoffs you were technically out of the contract because your obligation to the team was
over so they couldn't technically negotiate with you until the moratorium period yeah legally
no they couldn't do that common sensely yes of course i would negotiate you all season um
whether you're going to extend or not like i'll be imagining or negotiating or setting up the um
free agent deal i want to offer you anyway like just practically right but rule tampering is a
messy business um and so the mba decided hey bright idea bergen idea got this guy's idea
we're gonna do is we're gonna let you negotiate with your team as soon as season ends
and you'll be allowed to sign a contract pretty early because brian winhorse um
um brian winhorse talked about he expects multiple deals marcus smart got shipped out in the um
drew out a trade to memphis yeah i remember memphis marcus marcus involved in it somehow he has to be
sick right now grant williams got shipped out for prisingas marcus smart got shipped out for drew
and they were both on the team in 2022 that lost in six to golden state and they both end up being
the pieces that was traded in 2023 for them for both pieces were traded last off season for them
to win this season so that that uh that is uh that's tough if your mark is smart and grant
williams right um but anyway so brian one horse tweeted out right before the game if it were to
end tonight he expected several deals to be official within the next 20 40 40 dollars at the game
because once the season ends everybody's contract is free if you are a returning player
to your team so let's say you are a celtic your tatum tatum could sign his supermax tomorrow
morning instead of technically having to wait till july 1 that sort of thing if you're donovan
mitchell in cleveland he could sign his deal tomorrow morning instead of um having to wait until
july 1 that sort of thing so free agency technically now remember the lakers coined the term
pre-agency when they signed when they got when they traded for guys right around the trade deadline
with the intent of resigning them in the off season and they called it pre-agency now there's
literally a pre-agency where teams are allowed to go in and negotiate and sign their own guys back
before july 1 um so that is an interesting wrinkle um as far as big fish that could move
the bulls hold a couple of cards of course they have the cruiser on the d'orosian card new
orleans has brandon ingraham uh i don't see the trey young de jante and mary backcourt combo
playing for the hawks next season so one of them have to go um i don't see calling anthony towns
rudy gobert and naz read all being on the same team next season so one of them would have to move
i've been saying it for weeks if not months now paul george is a sixer
i don't read i don't see donovan mitchell resigning in cleveland i think he's moving
um i don't know what the clippers are gonna do because if paul george dips does james hardin
then try to assert his power for the max or the joins hardin say let me slide out myself like
what are the clippers gonna do then move into that big all cash arena from um
the bomber so i don't know he wants to pack it he wants to make it a show he wants to provide
a product worth watching so they're gonna have to do something um what is denver gonna do
denver is in the spot they're gonna have to figure out something um so it's it's a lot of move lakers
are they gonna go third star are they gonna go you know three role players you know they're gonna
have to a lot of movement i think is possible i think my biggest high chance of movers are
brandon ingraham donovan mitchell and paul george would be the three names i'd almost
lock into new locations i could lock in paul george to philly almost brandon ingraham and um
oh man i just brain cramped but brandon ingraham is a guy i think is gonna move
duchante and trey are gonna split up so there should be a lot of name movement we've had a
couple of dry free agencies um but hope i believe this will be a good move uh based free agency so
keep your eye on that if you're a fan of the nba if you're a fan of the drama keep your eye on that
but that is all i have for you guys today i appreciate you guys joining me rock with me
during these nba finals um definitely this is the first time we've done this in terms of instant
reactions of finals games i enjoyed it uh definitely something i look forward to doing again next season
um yeah definitely something i look forward to doing again next season um this is till we're
gonna take our break you know guys we need to take a break um right after the finals to free agency
so we'll take a break um you should see me on the justin timesports youtube page between now and
then but the audio show uh will be on break from now to next season so i'm excited to see you guys
on the show uh will be on break from now uh probably until right after july 1 which actually let me
check to see what the calendar is for that july 1st on a monday although the moratorium period
probably starts that saturday 29th um so you guys probably hear from me that second or third of july
um probably that third of july you'll probably hear from me if not the fourth of july you'll hear
me famously kevin durant signed the words on fourth of july um but that is something that you will
definitely hear from me then so about two three week break of the audio show but again that is
all i have for you guys today i hope you guys enjoyed the nba season again congratulations to
the boss in celtics for raising banner number 18 in the td garden arena they did it in at home which
is the first time that's i feel that's happened in a while i feel like there's been a lot of road
victories at least a majority of them lately have been on the road but congratulations again to the
seltzers congratulations to jaylen brown on winning his first finals abp this shows jesson jackson
signing out
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