Jared Weiss
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The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
I don't know why. It doesn't make sense. I understand the, you know, it's kind of like when you're a golfer and you feel like your backswing's bad. There's this one famous video of Tiger Woods where he stopped himself in the middle of a backswing because somebody took a photo in the air at the shutter.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And everyone's like, that's remarkable that he was able to somehow get his brain to stop in the backswing. It's harder than you think when the flow of the play, when you're trying to do the whole no timeout gambit isn't working out. But like they should have, they should have done it there. They could have done it there. They couldn't have Tiger Winston and they should have.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
the irony is aren't the wolves on the same drought and they just won two in a row yeah it's like they sh they should win around this drought they take 43s they make a few more than their opponent that gives it their edge but the thing is the execution has not been good brown and tatum both look like they're playing hobbles i mean everybody's hobbled right now yeah i made that point to one of the next players after the game and they're like bro we're we're only playing five guys so
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
Everybody is hurt. It's the playoffs. And we expect more from Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. It's pretty simple. I like to do pretty nuanced analysis of X and O's and down screens and wedges and whatever the hell. If this is just Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, just do not have it right now. Plain and simple.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
I disagree. So this is the thing, though. I would have connected to the pre last year Celtics. Like there's been evolutions right now. We are seeing some of it. But I also think these guys are just pretty hurt. But also like the Knicks defense is not the same defense from the regular season. Talking to some of the Knicks staffers, they're like, we've been wondering this whole year.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
is our defense actually going to be better in the postseason like we kind of predicted before the season when they made the mikhail bridges trade it ever since every you know halfway through that piston series mikhail bridges said all right i'm tired of kate cunningham i'm tired of losing time to play some defects And his defense has just really, really taken the step forward.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
Two game-winning steals in a row in this series. Amazing. I've never seen that before. I'm sure it's happened. I've never seen it. His defense is better. OG's defense is really good. When they're able to keep their non-elite wings... on the ball at the top, and those guys are filling the gaps in the lanes, the Celtics are not going anywhere.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
They're not getting anywhere with the ball, and they don't have Porzingis to play over the top right now. Porzingis is sick. Whatever this is, he says that he's ill. It's some sort of reference to what he had before. We've heard bronchitis, but this is a lineup with bronchitis, is it?
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
So whatever's going on there, they don't have their edges that they usually have that make them better than everybody else.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
The stats say usually. Yes. And then sometimes, and there's sometimes, and this is probably a sometimes. It doesn't mean that the Celtics are going to win the series, but the Celtics have proven themselves at this point. They can adjust. They can find different ways to attack. They have the defensive talent. Like, these guys know how to dig deep. I think this is more of a question of attrition.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
You know, teams don't repeat because... They break down because they don't have the edge of the emotional try of that first time they do it. It's hard. You know, Jason Tatum said at some point in the last couple of weeks during a presser that this season was different because, you know, he didn't feel that that edge of like not being champion anymore.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
He was basking in the glow and he played great. Like Jason Tatum had a great season. He's better this year than he was last year. And in the playoffs, his defense has been great. Playmaking has been great. But this next series has just been different. And everyone's different right now. There's nobody on the Celtics team that's playing really well right now.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
While at least like New York has OG and Jalen in the fourth quarter, like they have these guys. And so, you know, the Celtics, they lost these games on a steal on the last play. Like they're not far. It's one thing here or there, and this is a totally different narrative. So I expect the series to even up. At the very least, I expect the series to get to six.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And I just don't see the Celtics wilting here. There's nothing to indicate that at this point.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
So one, their best, their best adjustment is Kristaps Porzingis to play well, but they can't count on that right now, apparently. And then the other thing is pick and pop. Like Mitch does not want to switch. He wants to guard at the screen level, pick and pop. And they need KP for that. Horford can do that, but Cornette doesn't shoot.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
You know, maybe they need to do Tatum at the five so they can do stuff like that. Like they're going to go right. Also, don't forget, they didn't have Sam Houser in this game. He's a good three point shooter. They definitely I feel like they definitely would have gone to Houser in this game if they had it available just to get them some better shooting. Just so like.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
to have someone that could run a curl so that they can like run a play for someone else to give their guys a break. So, you know, they have, you know, if Houser can come back from his ankle sprain without they have several days off here, you know, maybe that will be helpful. But like they need Porzingis, like right now they really need him.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And, you know, they tried they tried going over the top to him at the end of the game. And they're like, I think it worked. I think if I remember correctly, like they they tried a little bit of the stuff that they do with KP. Yeah, it just didn't work.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And they need that stuff back because that's the stuff that, you know, those little like kind of like cross match post on stuff at the nail that they do with him. That's the stuff that gives guys like Jalen, Jason and Derek White.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
Like Cleveland is hurt and Halliburton has just been cooking at the end of these games. You know, the playoffs is is a battle of attrition. I think I said that earlier. I'll say it again. It's a battle of attrition. The team that wins the championship usually is the healthiest team. Like that's that's one of the main, main factors of the champion every year.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And sometimes the Warriors just have 50 Hall of Famers. But like usually it's health. And that's why the Celtics stampeded through the league last year. And I think the Celtics would have won the championship last year, even if everybody was around the league was relatively healthy. But like we're seeing teams are hurt right now.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
We're seeing layoffs because there's one team sweeping and there's another team going seven. Like there's just a ton of randomness in the league. This is inherent to the three-point era. And the three-point era and the teams taking 43s has evened out a lot of the home court advantage. It's evened out a lot of the disparities. It's a lot of disparities in talent. This stuff happens.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
And also, once you get to the second round, the playing field is much more level. And maybe that's a credit to the lottery and the play-in changes in the last half decade that have evened out the league a little bit more. But let's not forget, Cleveland and OKC won an insane number of games this year, and yet it feels like everything's kind of leveled out here.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
But this is why we play, as the NBA used to say. Yeah. These series are probably all going to go a long time, hopefully. It's going to be one of the best second rounds we've had in a while.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
Let's emphasize, was in the building. The night went so poorly, we have now been kicked out of the building, and I'm standing in front of two fire trucks.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
you know he sort of allowed explosion or another lot of explosion another one uh yeah i think we're okay he he should have right because at a certain point when you haven't created the advantage that you want you call time out you pull a seat bird while the play is happening in the middle of the play if it's not going the way you want call the time out they have the opportunity I don't know why.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
What an honor to be a friend and be in your life. It's like almost equally honorable things.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Can we also just note that they shot 25.0% in both games? Like the consistency has been impressive. You know, we're always looking for consistency in shooting. We never really specify what number we want to see it at. We just want to see consistency. So at least it's predictable. Okay, so the first thing here, let's credit the Knicks.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Mitchell Robinson, I feel like it's the first person we got to talk about because his defense on the perimeter, I mean, there's been a few plays where he got killed, but he has stood up Jason Tatum on the final play of regulation twice. And then we've also had Mikael Bridges have the game when you steal on the final play of the game twice now.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And so we're seeing this really impressive combination here of the Knicks, lesser defenders for a wing situation like a Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown. They're all doing a pretty solid job. And then that frees up Bridges and Ananobi to play in the gaps. And so two of the best guys in the league you could have in that situation.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And so the Celtics really struggling to just crush Jalen Brunson in target pick and rolls in the fourth quarter and to be able to get Mitchell Robinson in space and be able to shoot over him or get by him consistently. It's just not happening for Boston. And, you know, Brown and Tatum have just not played well so far. And very few guys on the team look healthy right now.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
It's ironic that New York looks healthier, even though they run tips, runs those guys into the ground every single night. Um, But then also like the Celtics are missing a crazy number of completely uncontested threes. And you go back and you watch the fourth quarter of that game in game two and like Jalen Brown misses a completely uncontested pull up three like in rhythm.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Jason Tatum gets a corner three and there's nobody on the same side of the court as him and he clanks it. Horford misses the same shot like everybody on their team that hits those wide open threes missed them all. And any one of those goes down and they win the game. And so, you know, that happens in games. Guys miss shots. You can't just be like, if that person made that shot, they win it.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
But we're talking about like the best shooters on the team that's the best shooting team in the game missing completely uncontested looks. And so that's the kind of stuff that should correct. Usually that corrects over the course of a series.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And if the Celtics are making some of those completely uncontested threes that they are creating in the fourth quarter, then we're looking at this completely differently.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Yeah, so listen, I got a copy of the script for next year. And the very first line in the script, it says... Jason Tatum, playoff shooting percentage, 32.3%, 7.2 attempts per game. It's in the script, guys. There's nothing we can do about it. This is what's going to happen with Jason Tatum. He's going to shoot kind of mediocre from three in the postseason.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And there are probably some things he could change about that. He can maybe go away from ISO step-back culture, which is the only way I could describe it at this point, for three in a row. Maybe it's one of them. And if it goes down, you get another one. And maybe you don't try to shoot three in a row and you miss three of those.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I think that there are things that he can amend to his game in the postseason. But I also think maybe part of this is that the guy doesn't really rest during the regular season much. And they had to really force him to this year.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And so he probably also is just kind of wearing down a bit in the postseason because of how physical he plays in the playoffs and how hard he defends in the playoffs that he's it's going to affect the shooting. So maybe there's just more maintenance and load management that needs to be done over the course of the season.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And maybe that needs to be done during the post season as well, because, you know, like we were saying before, like the guy missed a shot that should be absolute cash for him at the end of that game. And it's like, We're seeing that we see that we saw that happen earlier in the year. Every single season, his shot kind of falls apart.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
He fixes it halfway through the year, has a strong, stronger finish of the year. And maybe it's just kind of that cycle again. But I think that's just going to it's what it's going to be with JT. And that's the difference between JT and an MVP level player is just that like an MVP level player is probably going to hit 40 percent on those threes.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And they're going to score a little bit more per game. And that's going to be a little bit of that edge.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Well, I think the Celtics' biggest issue has been offensively more so. There's some sort of airborne Pistons virus going around, I guess, in the NBA right now, where whoever the Knicks are facing just catches this crunch time deficit. And We're just seeing Boston.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Maybe part of it is the Knicks are hitting more shots, Boston's playing in transition less, and therefore they're getting less good looks. But I feel like the Celtics' defense has generally been pretty good in this series. And you look at the Jalen Brunson baskets in crunch time. Have you ever seen a Jalen Brunson basket in crunch time and you're like, wow, the defense is terrible there?
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Not that often. I feel like he usually just hits really, really hard shots that very few guys can hit. Yeah. I think earlier in the fourth quarter is when they got killed with a lot of transition shooting from McHale Bridges and things of that nature. And so that's where the offense comes in. That's where the Celtics, they kept shooting through everything.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And you could see in game two, they passed up a lot of looks. And so that's why they only took, what, like 43s instead of 63s, which is still a lot. And so I think that for them... they usually look at it as we don't want to miss layups because that's going to be guaranteed transition the other way.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
So if we're going to miss shots, we'd rather at least miss threes where our spacing allows us to get back and have that defensive shell. But if they're just missing so many shots and they're guarding in transition so often, there's going to be holes there. So Boston's defense usually starts with their offense, and I think that continues to be the case in this series.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Well, they're in a more privileged position at this point. Because they've won the championship, I don't think there's that desperation of, like, this is our last chance to ever become champions. There's a bit of that... A bit of that stability and already having won it. And I think that's a combination of like being delusional enough to think that you can make it out of this.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And delusion is a very important part of being a good basketball team. And then also just like the lack of fear that you'll never be a great... You'll never be recognized as a great player because if you're Tatum, if you're Brown, you've already won that championship. So I think that that actually is probably a good thing because...
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
the tension of the fear can really splinter while, you know, I think when you feel confident in yourself, it allows you to kind of stay the course more so. And the lack of desperation, I think will probably help them stay the course a little bit. And I know people are going to conflate desperation with a, they don't care.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
No, it's just like, there's a difference between I really want to win another title and I've never won a title and my career will be a waste if I don't win a title. Like there's, it's different. You can't expect somebody to have that same drive, but like the Celtics are very capable of winning this series just for,
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
forget about even the results just based on the history like you're saying like we know that they're able to turn things around that they have multiple solutions the way that they play and that they're shooting like absolute crap right now and I just don't expect them to shoot 25.0% again next game they're probably going to shoot 25.1% but even that will be a little bit of an improvement
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Well, they haven't really played out of the post that much, and that's a big part of how they've been able to get easier offense, and we just haven't seen a lot of that, and the problem for them is that the Knicks defense, one of the things they're clearly built for is to not get cross-matched in the post, because whether it's Hart, Annobi, Bridges, whoever the five is at the time, they're always going to have four good post defenders out there, and if you really go for Brunson, Jalen Brown was able to get Jalen Brunson a few times in the post, but
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
most of the time it's hard to really get a point guard all alone in the post over and over again. Usually teams know how to switch out of that. So the post thing, maybe we'll see more just like non-cross-match post-ups, like just posting up Mikael Bridges, even though he's tall, hoping that you can get muscle through him, things like that.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I mean, there's a very obvious adjustment, which is that Chris Opspor-Zingas is good. And that's the thing that's really killing the Celtics right now. It's just like they need K.P., They need to play through him in the high post. They need him pick and popping. Those are the two things that they've been really, really missing in the series. And he hasn't been able to deliver it.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
And they're hoping that with this illness that he's dealing with, whatever it is, that a couple of days off will allow him to actually... perform better next game. And I know watching him last game, I was watching him before warmups and you know how KP, he kind of like falls onto his front foot when he shoots the ball. It's kind of like a lean forward kind of thing.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
He was like literally like falling into his front foot. Like he could barely get off the ground. He looked like he was in really rough shape and he played like it. And if he's just like not in really, really sick and not feeling like garbage, like he's probably going to be better. And that will be such a huge boon for them because he's been really, really, like ineffective so far.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I'm going to do Andrew a favor here. I'm going to pick number seven in honor of Jalen Brown, which means that I'm most likely going to miss the first question.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
It's funny because it feels like he's not having a great series.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
So the way I'm trying to do the arithmetic here is I'm calculating how many games he probably played his first two seasons when it was less likely he had a role where he would get 15 consistently. And so probably played about 16, 20-ish or so, each of those, right? So I'm guessing he was below 15 half of that first year. That's 10. So I'm going to guess that his... What's exactly the question?
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Andrew, would you like to go higher or lower than 19%? Wow. I'll say lower. Lower?
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
That's funny. Here's the good news, Jared. You have control of the board. I'm going to do number eight since it was 18.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
All right, Tristan Thompson. That is correct. Aaron Neesmith.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I don't know. I assume the buzzer's going off any second now. I can't think of who the last one is.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I just talked to Tristan and Javante Green together like two weeks ago, so I should have remembered that one.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
no no the fun guess though would have been fun thank you okay jared do you know the answer to this question yeah this one's gonna be a deep cut probably um who's so far back in the bench that i can't remember him off the top of my head is that jordan walsh jordan walsh no wow okay it's not that deep one of them is deep okay peyton pritchard was one of them yeah
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
I was thinking Kawhi, but there's no way he's played enough games. I can't believe that.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
Yeah, he is. I was going to say eight. He always has eight rebounds every time.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Marcus, thanks for hanging out with me. Guys, stick around after the break. Jared Weiss and I went pretty deep on the sale of the Celtics. And I got him to tell me what he thinks that it means for NBA expansion.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Wir hatten gestern große Nachrichten auf der Geschäftsseite des Basketballs. Und hier, um darüber zu sprechen, ist einer meiner Lieblingsleute, mit dem ich über Basketball spreche, Jared Weiss. Er öffnet die Celtics, unter anderem andere Dinge für die Athletik. Jared, danke, dass du uns begrüßt hast. Die Celtics haben gekauft, für wie viel Geld?
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
record six point one billion dollars that's billion yeah that's quite a bit um so talk to me about uh what exactly is happening with the celtics okay they're being sold there's a new owner they're not going to be moved or anything like that it's the boss in celtics um so fill me in on kind of the details of the sale and then who the new owner is
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Ja, es ist lustig, weil Witt Grossbeck, der Managing Governor der Celtics war, als er erneut erklärte, dass er die Mannschaft nach dem Wettbewerb verkauft hat, sehr kurz nachdem sie das Wettbewerb gewonnen haben, war es wie eine Parade. Und dann denke ich, der nächste Tag war der Verkaufserklärung. Er sagte, dass er die Mehrheitsteige verkaufen würde.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
around this time, early 2025, and then complete the deal in 2028 and was going to retain management control until that point in 2028. And we all kind of laughed at that because we're like, Adam Silver has already shot this stuff down. We just saw this go. We saw the two...
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
phase sale blow up in their face in minnesota we just saw mark human try to do the i'm still in charge thing and then he disappeared and he didn't he didn't acknowledge he was disappeared until uh the lucatrade happened and then he proudly was telling everybody oh i'm not in charge anymore that that was all them uh and so Wick scheint seinen Wunsch zu haben.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass er das ausgibt. Aber der Deal, das erste 51 Prozent wird gemacht. Sie werden diesen Deal in ein paar Monaten abschließen, nachdem sie alle T's geschlossen haben, alle Augen geschlossen haben, alle Gemeinschaften zwischen den Zillern geschlossen haben. Und dann, im Jahr 2028, wird er mit dem Team durch das Jahr verantwortlich sein.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Und dann wird der Verkauf fertig sein und er wird nicht mehr Teil davon sein. Und es wird vollständig Bill Chisholm in seinem Gruppen sein. Und er ist ein lokaler Typ aus Nordmassachusetts, aus North Shore, wenn du Massachusetts überhaupt kennst. Er ist ein Celtics-Fan. Er ist nach Westen gegangen und hat viel Geld verdient als Privat-Equity-Typ.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Und jetzt kommt er nach Osten, um seinen Jungs-Club zu kaufen.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Ja, ich habe einmal einen wunderschönen Wochenende in Gloucester verbracht und bin auf einem alten Holzboot gefahren. Gloucester ist wunderschön. Ja, es ist unglaublich. Okay, also einer der anderen Beitragspartner für den Verkauf des Teams ist eine Privat-Equity-Gruppe, die die Währung von drei anderen NBA-Teams besitzt. Nun, schau, das scheint mir fischig zu sein.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Jedes Mal, wenn du Privat-Equity ausgibst, weißt du, ich denke an Joanne Fabrics, weißt du, irgendwie sind 97 Prozent ihrer Stores profitabel und noch sind sie in Bankruptie.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
uh allay my fears with private equity getting involved with another nba team i i mean they they they have a small enough share that they appear to not have managerial responsibilities so it's just it's you know maybe they're shorting the value or something like that who knows are they're going along on the value presumably probably not because these teams i mean how much the team was purchased for 360 million
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Und es verkauft für 6,1 Billionen. Also wenn ich mich an die Privatwerte betreue, die in Sport involviert wird, ist es für mich einfach so, dass das eigentlich ein Ort ist, wo man, wenn man ein bisschen Geld parkt, es scheint, dass man es machen wird.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Also die weirder Part ist einfach, dass die Liga, die diese Gruppe ermöglicht, in drei separate Teams zu investieren, es fühlt sich an, als wäre das ein mörkiger, grüner Bereich.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Und das ist der Grund, weshalb die Anreise an die managerische Verantwortung wirklich stark sein müssen, weil sie Interessenkonflikte haben. Und sie haben die Spurs. Und die Spurs sind ein Team, das in ein paar Jahren hoffentlich auch gegen die Celtics kämpft, wenn sie irgendwie auf diesem Niveau bleiben können.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
you know i i don't know how that's supposed to be handled fairly reasonably you know sovereign wealth funds are also starting to buy in they're able to get up to 20 that seemed like something that could have happened in this deal it appears not to have as far as we know now who knows but if they had a large enough stake that probably would have been announced as well so who knows we'll see but like this is this is how a lot of deals get done most deals get done where it's
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
A large investor who may not even have 50%, a few other people in like the 10s or maybe the 20s and then like a bunch of small names too to round it out. A lot of ownership groups are like 50 people or something like that. So it's kind of inevitable you're going to get private equity involved.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
I thought it was funny that Steve Pagliucco, when he made his announcement that he wasn't the one who won it and he's... Er ist der heutige Co-Anhänger der Celtics. Er wurde in den letzten Monaten von vielen Berichten als Lieblingsspieler erwähnt, um die Mannschaft zu erhalten. Er hat in seinem Letter zu den Fans erwähnt, dass seine Vorschläge alle finanzieren werden, und ich glaube, Geld.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Curry injured in Warriors win + New owners for the Boston Celtics
Und es wird also keine Schulden aufgenommen werden. Es wird keine Privatsteuer involviert sein. Und das, um zu sagen, dass das eine mehr verfügbare Kassentransaktion sein wird, dass es mehr Kontrolle über die Zukunft der Franchise gibt und so weiter. Und er wollte diesen Punkt machen, aber er war auch der Vize-Chairman von Bain Capital.
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A lot of these people involved have their fair share of private equity blood on their hands. But Pagliuca is one of the best owners that we've seen in this league. He's been great. They've been the paragon of consistent success and quality management in this league in a way that very few teams have over the course of like 20 years now.
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Ja, oh, naja, wenn die Celtics oder irgendeine Teil davon zu einem sovereign wealth fund verkauft hätte, hätte die Liga Fragen zu beantworten, die sie nicht mit den Wizards und ihrer Affiliation mit dem sovereign wealth fund beantwortet hätte. Gehen wir zu der Basketballseite. Denn die Geschäftsseite wird das beeinflussen.
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Was bedeutet das für die Art und Weise, wie das Team durchgeführt werden wird? In the next few years, you say that Wick Groesbeck is going to continue to be essentially the head, the figurehead of the team. Brad Stevens, assuming, is still going to be running the basketball side for years to come. Do you expect any sort of changes with new management, essentially, or new ownership, I should say?
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Die große Frage ist, sie haben ein ziemlich kleines Verteidigungsamt. Remy Cofield, der, glaube ich, Nummer vier auf der Org-Chart, oder Nummer fünf auf der Org-Chart, er ist jetzt der GM in Arkansas für ihre College-Programme. Also haben sie bereits eine Eröffnung. Vielleicht gibt es mehr Schüffeln.
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Austin Ainge war, glaube ich, einer der Finalisten für den Job der Charlotte Hornets letztes Jahr, der zu Jeff Peterson ging, also wird er weiter interviewen. So they're probably going to need more people with senior level experience in their front office anyway. But the top of the org chart where it's Brad Stevens and it's Mike Zarin, there's no reason to believe that will ever change.
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Brad is one of the most respected people in the basketball world and it is clearly proven that his approach has worked very well. I can't imagine that there's anything that could happen that would take him out of that position, that isn't out of his own volition.
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Und ich habe heute in unserem Report auf The Athletic berichtet, dass er die Finalisten interviewt hat, als das Bidding stattfand, als sie an der finalen Phase kamen. Es war Teil davon, dass er mit ihnen treffen musste. Und ich würde mir vorstellen, dass Grosbeck und die Verwaltungsgruppe, die verkauft hat, wahrscheinlich wollte, dass jeder, zu dem sie verkauft hat, Brad zu halten.
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Weil, wenn es etwas gibt, was sie tun können, um sicherzustellen, dass das Franchise in guten Händen ist, nachdem sie den Verkauf machen, ist es, um sicherzustellen, dass Stevens immer noch die Schiffe läuft.
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Yeah. What about on the court? You mentioned the sort of timeline of events, when the title put the team up for sale. And then right after that, they locked all these guys up to long-term big money contracts. We know the new CBA, I guess at some point we got to just start calling it the CBA that we live under right now. The repeater tax just gets to be...
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tremendous by the time you get into year three and year four um do you expect this team to stick around or do they have to win a title to to run this back next season i do wonder if that matters so much is that they got to look at these individuals because if they're going to break this team apart it's not like you shatter the whole thing it's you're just swapping out some pieces
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You're just trying to reduce salary to reduce tax burden, maybe even get out of the second apron in a year or two so they can start resetting some of those penalties down the road with the draft picks. So I think the most interesting deal that they did last year was they signed Drew Holiday, who is going to turn 35 in a few weeks. He's actually a day older than me.
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So now I'm feeling old and my knee is hurting a little bit right now after doing some yoga. So I can empathize with the fact that Drew Holiday is getting older. And they signed him to a long-term deal. It was a good value deal, but it's still a lot of money. It's what, like 26 mil a year on average or something like that for four years? So they're signing this guy until his late 30s.
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This year he's had a shoulder issue and it's been affecting his shot all year. He has not been himself offensively at all. And so... They can win a title next year and then they still decide Drew is just not going to be healthy and be himself for the length of his contract.
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It's worth us biting the bullet and dumping him for whatever we can, whether it's short term money or even find a way to get off of him entirely, which probably is not possible with his salary, but who knows, just to deal with the tax bill. Und sie leben mit dem Fakt, dass sie noch Derek White in ihrem Primum haben.
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Du hast Peyton Pritchard, der anfängt, in seinen Primum zu kommen und sich wirklich in die Runde zu drehen, um ein ziemlich hochwertiger Starting Caliber Spieler zu werden. An diesem Punkt sieht er sich wie ein Sartre auf jedem Contender-Level Spieler. An diesem Punkt. Und er macht nur etwa sieben Millionen pro Jahr. Der Kontrakt, den sie hinbekommen haben, ist verrückt.
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Maybe they get rid of Drew, they get rid of KP and they find a way to develop a center, which they have currently nobody in the pipeline to be their legitimate starting center in the future. So that's an issue they have to figure out, because Horford presumably will retire at some point, or maybe he'll just die of old age while still in a Celtics uniform 50 years from now, who knows.
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But, you know, Luke Cornett, Emish Keita, Xavier Tillman, alle Jungs, die du in deine Rotation einstellen kannst, aber sie werden nicht mit diesen Jungs als Ansteller gewinnen. Also brauchen sie eine Lösung im Start Center. Und Porzingis relativ gesund, so weit er seitdem er zurückgekommen ist von seiner Ankelschmerzen dieses Jahr.
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Außer diesem mystischen Virus, das ihn für ein paar Wochen gehalten hat. Er war ziemlich gesund. Aber wir wissen die Geschichte mit KP an diesem Punkt. Wir wissen einfach nicht, wie er sich aufhören wird, besonders über einen Playoff-Rund. Und er ist auf der anderen Seite von 30. Und Jungs seiner Größe, die diese niedrigeren Körperverletzungen haben,
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dass sie ihren Pop sehr schnell verlieren können. Also Porzingis sieht nicht aus wie ein Zehntier-Spieler. Sie schauen darauf hin, ihn bis in die late 30s zu halten, wie sie es mit Drew Holiday waren. Vielleicht ist das so, wie sie das tun. Sie müssen nicht Jalen Brown handeln und sich zu einem Supermax-Spieler befinden.
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If you can have two supermax players that are worth it, you don't get rid of that. That's the holy grail of team building here. They know that those guys are good because they just want a championship. We don't need to overthink this whole Jays thing. It's really worked. It's a question of would Jalen want something different? Would Tatum want something different? Probably not. I think we've
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It's pretty clear that Tatum is the guy, if they have to choose anybody, just because of how completely well-rounded his game is at this point. But so like, I don't think they have to just, they don't have to completely blow these things up. They can take out some of the older guys, which is what you're supposed to do when you're trying to sustain a contender.
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And Brad Stevens made it a point during the summer last year to say, We're looking at this as like a 10-year thing and there's going to be ups and downs over the course of that 10 years to try to be consistently competitive, which I think implies that a lot of these guys that they love, they might have to dump them in order to manage the salary and build back up.
The Athletic NBA Daily
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Yeah, quickly before we get out of here, this sale of the Boston Celtics has been looming since the summer, $6.1 billion. It's a great anchor for the NBA, for franchise owners. But what about for the league and this being the first domino in an expansion move, right? You now have this $6.1 billion mark.
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I assume that we're starting at 5 billion for a new franchise at this point, now that you've established this level. Do you think that we're going to see the expansion talks get heating up as we go into the summer?
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It all hinged on this. I remember hearing... vor drei oder vier Monaten, dass einige dieser Bids für die Celtics unter 5 Billionen kommen. Und die Liga war schmerzhaft, weil, wenn einer der drei Marquis-Franchises, vielleicht können wir die Warriors da oben hinsetzen, vier Marquis-Franchises in der NBA, weniger als das ist, was du für dein Franchise-Fee willst,
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Du bist in riesigen, riesigen Träumen. Es muss sein, dass du das durch ein Geld befreien musst. Und das ist das, was sie bekommen. Also, wenn sie einen 5-Billionen-Dollar-Fonds für jede dieser Teams wollen und vermutlich in diesem Punkt Vegas und Seattle, brauchten sie die Celtics, um diesen 6-Billion-Hurdle zu befreien.
The Athletic NBA Daily
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Idealerweise bräuchten sie das Rekord von nordamerikanischen Teams, das sie gemacht haben. Und jetzt kann die NBA sagen, schau dir das an, alle. Unsere letzte Verkaufsverkaufsverkauf brach den Rekord. We need to be breaking records here. We need earth-shattering prices if you want to put your team in Seattle, put your team in Las Vegas. I'd love Mexico City. That would be pretty great.
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Logistically, it's not going to work. Yeah, but I love the food in Mexico City is the best. So hopefully one day. But this is a huge win for the NBA. This is a huge win for all the other owners because the expansion fee goes to all of them, right? So this is huge because they can... Es kann die Revenue da reinbringen.
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Es kann helfen, einige der Geld, die sie wahrscheinlich nicht in den TV-Dealen bekommen haben, die sie gehofft hätten. Also das war ein bisschen unter dem, was sie gehofft hatten. Und dann ist es offensichtlich so, dass es in Vegas groß sein wird für die Liga finanziell. Es könnte für den Rest der Menschheit schrecklich sein, aber es ist zumindest gut für die Leute, die den NBA-Stock verkaufen. Ja.
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And a return to the Seattle media market. That'll be a pretty good one. At least Kevin Pelton will be happy. Yeah, let's not forget those franchise fees. The owners and the league do not share that as a part of basketball-related income with the players. They get to keep that pie. That's a pretty nice pie. I'd have a slice of that. Jared, thank you so much. I appreciate your work.
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Again, guys, go and read him at The Athletic. He's going to be covering this story. It's not over yet. And I think as expansion looms, Jared's probably going to be on that beat too. Thanks to Marcus Thompson for joining me in the first part of the show. That's going to do it for today. Thank you guys for listening. As always, this has been the NBA Daily. Thanks for waking up with us.
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Yeah, I definitely think he's going to want to be there for that. Let's talk a little bit about the game, because the Warriors did wind up winning this. It was 117-114. And I said, you know, look, it was closer than it needed to be. And part of that was because of the strategy that the Raptors employed. And, you know, we're seeing... Das ist was Jimmy sagt, ja.
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right he's got to shoot him and especially this is the this is the other thing because jimmy butler is out there and the space that he likes to operate and create from it interferes a little bit with the space that draymond likes to operate in offensively sometimes so um i think this game is a pretty good example of how these guys can actually work together if draymond is willing to shoot um would you think about
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What we've seen from them between the game without Steph, where they get a win, and then this game, where they finish without Steph and pick up the win. What do you think about that so far, making up for Steph's absence?
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No, I didn't think it would be, actually, Marcus.
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Right. The thing is, he's a great player. The ball's never going to get stuck. He's one of the highest level connectors in the NBA. You sound like Steve Kerr.
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But the thing is, the space he operates in with him and when you get Draymond and you get Kuminga out there at the same time like we saw the other night. I mean, Gary Payton II was out there. That to me felt like Steve Kerr saying, hey, you know what? You guys were going to run into this at some point. We got to figure this out. So just go do it. And I think they've done okay.
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6,1 Billionen Dollar, Leute. Guten Morgen, alle. Guten Morgen, Markus. Ich freue mich, dass du zu spät da bist, nachdem die Warriors die Raptors gewonnen haben.
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Part of that is that you've got Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green as two of the highest IQ guys when it comes to just knowing spots to be on the court on both ends. Those guys down the stretch defensively both made a play to win the game. Draymond Green breaks up that one transition pass that was for an alley-oop. Jimmy Butler gets a big block at the rim.
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Das war beeindruckend für mich, Markus. Das ist das, was ich in meinem Notbuch stelle. Und ich sage, okay, jetzt haben die Warriors zwei Leute, die das defensiv machen können und nicht nur Draymond all die Zeit. Und das ist, wo ich denke, dass ihre Strecke unbegrenzt ist. Es ist ein Defensiv-Event. Die Offense, weil der Spacing-Konzern, ich denke, Steph muss natürlich draußen sein.
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But I don't know that they have a solution. And Quentin Post going six of nine from three is a great sign. That's awesome. But Marcus, do you think Quentin Post come playoff time is a guy that's going to be getting minutes because he can make shots? I mean, that feels like...
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I don't know if it's because he's not quite in full basketball shape yet because he did miss a lot of time, but he may just not have it. I saw him in the game last night. You know, he had the ball on the empty side and he tried to get a drive and he kept getting cut off. And look, that's going to happen quite a bit, especially when you're playing the Raptors.
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They've got some quick guys that can stay in front of you. I'm of the opinion that Jimmy Butler can play a little bit like Steph when Steph's not on the court. But inside the three-point line, you know, Santos had a great pass to Steph. They were top-locking Steph. Steph works to get on the inside, right? Like their front guard.
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And he gets that little layup by essentially faking the up-cut and going back. I think Jimmy Butler does so many of those things so well that there's stuff there that he can do off the ball, even when Steph's not on the court. Ja, keine Frage.
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Lamello Ball ging auf gegen die Knicks und die Hornets haben sie irgendwie gewonnen. Und es war nicht mal so nah. 115 zu 98. Lamello Ball geht fünf von zehn von drei. Lamello Ball war an diesen Leuten tanzen. Und schau, sie haben nicht Jalen Brunson, aber die Playoffs kommen. Die Knicks sollen ein seriöser Gegner sein.
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You can't be losing to San Antonio with no De'Aaron Fox, no Wemby, and then going to Charlotte and letting LaMelo Ball do stuff like this. I mean, I think that I'm at the point where the Knicks are having a really nice season, but man, I don't trust them.
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Es ist spät. Hör mal, es ist spät für mich, Mann. Ich mag zu schlafen. Die größte Neuigkeit des Spiels ist nicht, dass die Warriors gewonnen haben. Sie sollen gewinnen. Sie sollen die Raptors gewinnen. Als Fakt, können wir vielleicht dazu kommen, warum dieses Spiel so nahe war.
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Without Brunson it is, right? So their issue right now is the offense. Deuce McBride does not stir in the drink enough. And then, frankly, Karl-Anthony Towns puts up 24 points, but They don't have the defense around the basket, right? So then the three-pointer opens up and you wind up with this situation where Charlotte goes 15 of 32 from three. And you can chalk this up to, hey, you know what?
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They had a great shooting night. And they did. They did. But it's the Hornets. Like, you still should be able to withstand that if you're the Knicks and find a way to win.
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You just think that they're just focused. That's it. They just get to the playoffs.
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But the biggest news, with about three minutes and 30 seconds left in the third quarter, Steph Curry fell just directly on his backside. And it was one of the louder falls that I've heard on an NBA broadcast. You were in the arena. You were talking to these guys postgame. What's the latest right after the game on Steph and his butt? Let's talk about Steph's butt.
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I think they need Jalen Brunson. He needs to be healthy. Otherwise, they would have a scary first round series if he's not 100%. Especially if they wind up catching the Pistons. Because they're really good. It might be scary for them if they catch the Pistons with Brunson. Before we go to break, quickly, the Bucks blew out the Lakers, or at least it was sort of the Lakers.
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The Lakers were without five of their top six scorers in the game. Brian James scored 17 points. If you want to know what kind of night it was for the Lakers, Lucas sat, Austin Reeves sat, obviously LeBron and Rui both out still. Dorian Finney-Smith was out, Jared Vanderbilt was out. Damian Lillard missed the game.
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On a night where we watched 37-year-old Steph Curry laying his body on the line, you know, laying his tail on the line, Marcus. I see what you did there. How come, like, is this the problem that people, like, when they're talking load management, it's not, it's just, the Lakers were just okay to throw this game away.