Derrick White Joins team USA. Was Jaylen Brown snubbed? Was White the best replacement for Kawhi? Thoughts on the team?
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00:00Jay from Attleboro would like to talk about that this morning. Hello, Jay
00:06Morning, how you guys doing? What's up?
00:09Yeah, I was just um, I just had a weird perspective on I was just wondering um
00:13What is your guys opinion on do we think Derek White would be a better fit for the USA team than Jalen Brown?
00:21We all know Jalen Brown's a better player, but would he be a better fit for the team Derek White?
00:26Well, I mean, I think that's the explanation that they are trying to give which is that
00:33positionally and option wise you got to fill that team out with
00:38various types of players
00:41So fragile and we eat we he calls it fraudulent. Yeah, you got the best players
00:46Jalen Brown can do everything Derek White can do on defense. So like let's not go down that road
00:54Yeah, it just makes no sense because when you think of the USA basketball team or you think of an all-pro team
01:01or you think of like
01:03You know an all-star team because that's kind of what this is is an all-star team
01:08You think of you put together the best players and especially for the Olympics?
01:15It's all that's what we've that's what we grew up on the dream team the best players in
01:21Basketball going over there and playing. Well, why would you guess he wasn't chosen? We talked a lot about this
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01:51Kawhi Leonard is no longer going to Paris for the Olympics in his absence Derek White got the nod
01:57Everybody then looked to to X Twitter, whatever you want to call it to see Jalen Brown
02:02He tweeted out three emojis where they have the little spyglass
02:06Yeah
02:08Looking and obviously he is tweeting about wait a minute. You picked him over me. I hate this. I hate this
02:14I hate this response. I love Jalen Brown so much, but I can't stand by him when he does something like this
02:22Derek White was so important to this team throughout the regular season and the postseason as was Jalen Brown
02:29Do it do I feel like yes, he got snubbed. Yeah, sure
02:33I do think they picked Derek White because of his position
02:35But for Jalen Brown to tweet something like this right after we got over the Jason V Jalen thing
02:42It's only going to add more fuel to the fire like and if I'm Derek White and I see this tweet
02:48I'm pissed like what dude why why why why why why?
02:53Yeah, and again not saying that Jay that they should have picked Derek over Jalen. I just think doing the tweet only adds more
03:02National media to be able to say this Celtics team could never repeat because they don't get along in the locker room
03:08Look at what Jalen's tweeting and it's about it. It's in regard to his own teammate like that's if Derek White takes it personal
03:15Which I don't think he does if you're being honest
03:18What do you think is the reason that Derek White was chosen over Jalen Brown?
03:22I think you think it's what does that mean though?
03:25I think Jalen is very outspoken has the Nike thing like do you think you think Nike controls it?
03:32Yep, and he was critical
03:34With regard to Nike and the way they reacted to Kyrie Irving and and some
03:42Offensive things that he said
03:45So that's what you think it is. It's driven by Nike. Yeah, he has that much power. It's not driven by talent
03:51Is there someone by skill is there someone on the team who doesn't want him there?
03:55I couldn't see that someone with a higher profile than you know Jason Tatum that may not want
04:01To like a man like LeBron James. No, I could LeBron. I don't think he can kill us, huh?
04:06I think LeBron could kill us. Maybe it is LeBron. LeBron is that petty though?
04:11Like I'm surprised LeBron didn't replace him with Bronny, but but LeBron
04:15It's not like an Isaiah Thomas Michael Jordan thing like LeBron doesn't have an issue with Jalen
04:21That's an example that hurt your argument though Wiggy. That's it that the 92 dream team was not the best team
04:27They had Leitner on the team and not Isaiah Thomas
04:30Well, they had Leitner and not Shaq well
04:33But either way that they this team has not always selected the most talented players
04:37They've selected whatever, you know
04:40And we criticized that 92 team for not for not Shaq and Isaiah
04:44We criticized whoever was that I think it was Jordan and Isaiah that didn't get along
04:48I mean, yeah, but Isaiah not being on the right narrative about Jalen Brown, which was
04:54Started I guess by Stephen a Smith is that he is not well liked around the league by other players, right?
05:00No, he made it seem like front office. Yeah, I think he went
05:04I think he just was blanket like you just said league wide that there is a
05:09Perception of Jalen Brown and the way Jalen and I agree Wiggy. He should be on the team without a doubt
05:15but the way you're able to
05:18change hearts and minds is
05:20by tweeting out yesterday
05:23Wow congrats to Derek white what maybe the unsung hero of our championship run?
05:29Nobody's worked harder and done more to get here. So I'm for my teammate. I wish I was joining you
05:34I think I belong there as well. Yeah period end of story and he is celebrated jackass
05:41All right, it's better than that to do
05:44You don't need to comment on it if you're pissed off then why use it to motivate yourself with this narrative
05:51Michelle Obama when they go when they go low you go
05:57What you can also let you can do it if it's your teammate right but you can also let people know how you feel about
06:02the not the player the
06:05organization because that's what
06:0890% of people believe this take by you surprises me like if you were chosen
06:12I know this is a stretch
06:13But if you were chosen for the Pro Bowl right during your career and one of your teammates was on social media
06:20with the
06:22Monocle emojis acting like they should have been chosen over you if they were statistically and far better than me. Yes
06:29I don't know how you're happy that out now
06:31You're killing it exactly how you're capping if I was teammates with Gronk
06:35And I made the the all-pro team and Gronk put up like the you know
06:41Like the side I whatever held the Sherlock Holmes like what is we were doing if I'm I'm not gonna be mad at Gronk
06:48I would look at it and go like Derek white. I don't think Derek white is mad at Jalen Brown Derek white's probably like
06:55Damn, I don't know why they
06:57Didn't take you, you know, he's probably telling himself that there's no way he's mad at Jalen Brown cuz Jalen Brown
07:04I thought you told me that all athletes are you know, the most ultra competitive people of all time
07:10So if you're Derek white, but you still know you you still know where you stand
07:14Like you think Derek white really sits there and goes I deserve
07:18It sucks for Derek white and it's a big moment for him and it is shadowed
07:23Right and Jalen Brown is the reason that it's no because he said something. It's team USA
07:29Even if Jalen Brown don't say anything. We're still having this conversation. No
07:33What no, we're not. Well, we maybe would say wow
07:36It's crazy that Jalen didn't is still not on this team, but we're not having the conversation
07:41People would be saying why isn't the guy who just won the Eastern Conference MVP and the finals MVP and
07:48Some people say, you know, he's more valuable than Jason Tatum. Why is this guy not on the team USA?
07:57but the
07:58fourth or fifth best player on his team is I haven't heard this take
08:02978 text on the Subaru of New England text line
08:05What if it was Jason Tatum and he doesn't want to be overshadowed by Jalen Brown in the Olympics like he was in the finals
08:11I don't think Jason Tatum cares about that. They clearly have a better relationship than people
08:18People believed after you saw it in the finals. They clearly have a better relationship than people believed
08:23So I don't think it's Jason Tatum. If anything, it's somebody above Jason Tatum
08:26It's like the Kevin Durant's or the LeBron James somebody with actual cachet. It's like, yeah, I don't want him here
08:32And the reacted all did he tweet anything I don't know and the fact busy be crying over being on NBA 2k that Grant Hill
08:40because they're saying Grant Hill is the one who
08:42Elected to have selected Derek White
08:46the fact that Grant Hill
08:48relation no no relation wish
08:51Chose to go with Derek White. It just makes no sense over Jalen and and like I said, it should be Jalen
08:58But then there's four other guys Donovan Mitchell. There's Dame Lillard. There's Kyrie Irving like there are other guys that
09:06When you think of the US men's USA men's basketball team and the best players
09:12No, I guess it is disrespect to Derek White, but you don't mean it that way
09:17I'm just trying to find should not be ahead of those guys on this team
09:21I'm just trying to find the replies from Damian Lillard and all the other guys
09:25Unless it comes out
09:28Unless it comes out where Grant Hill goes. I asked Jalen Brown. He said no I asked Donovan Mitchell
09:34I asked all these other guys and they said no and he said you feel the same way about drew holiday being on him
09:39Hey, listen, we love drew holiday. But when you think of them team USA, don't you think of that being the best players in?
09:47America in the NBA
09:50And now what you think if we said we're sending a team
09:53To play in an Olympic game team USA football and we said so what do you think is the reason he wasn't chosen?
10:00Well, I can tell you what Jalen thinks because I'm looking now if you go to his replies the Nike thing
10:06He tweeted at Nike this what we doing question mark. Yeah, so that's what he thinks that Nike
10:13Do you I'm asking wiggy do you believe that I
10:17Believe yeah, I think it's something along the political nonsense line
10:20I think it's something on where they don't want a guy of
10:25his type of status where he has now this
10:30Platform in the Olympics to maybe give his opinions on some things
10:35He might believe which I think is absolutely things that he thinks are wrong
10:40Yeah, whatever with the country with the country, you know presenting. Yeah his social, you know
10:46Who is Nike very close with who's the sneaker we were just talking about LeBron? No, I was the Tatum Tate. Yeah
10:53They even just dropped the what looks like the Tatum threes as well coming out. They did not nail a lot of threes. I
11:01Mean, that's the only do they make those in large sizes because I have giant feet
11:09But that's the only thing you could really think about if Nike has that type of
11:13Cache in power great when you go bowling be honest
11:16Do you do what every guy does if you're with women and say you're about a size and a half bigger? I?
11:22Don't really I don't believe that that spray does enough to get rid of whatever was wearing it and their germs before I think
11:30You're on to something
11:32It doesn't seem like it accomplishes what it's supposed to so you bring your own shoes. No, I just don't I don't I mean I
11:40I don't bowl often. Really? I don't think I've bowled in a lot quite a long time
11:45I love you, but you strike me as a guy who has his own bowling
11:48I do not have my own shoes
11:50I do love to play but I love to go bowling but I do not have my own shoes or my own ball the most
11:55unbelievable thing I've ever seen was wiggy just
11:58Just nonchalantly walking up to the bowling rink. We were at the 24 lanes event for ty law out it. Oh, yeah
12:05What's that Westboro?
12:09Great spot and
12:11Wiggy just grabs a ball and just throws a perfect strike just walks away. That's it
12:16I was like, how the hell did that happen?
12:17You can't be good at everything you get lucky every now and then you finish out you want to finish on top walk away
12:23Well done, but if it is that the Nike thing, I just think it's a bad look
12:27I think it's a bad look for this whole team USA thing and
12:33Your Olympic team and you have a guy of Jalen Brown's, you know, I said if that's the way you feel
12:40Mm-hmm. I might agree with you. It is a bad look but
12:44Jalen Brown had the opportunity to not put that bad. Look on himself
12:50by
12:51More whining and moaning about it. When is when his teammate?
12:55Mm-hmm is playing on the team when his teammate is the guy who was picked as the replacement
13:02Our grapes, but we know Jalen's personality Jalen's personality his personality is that drag his teammate?
13:08No, he's not dragging his teammate. He is dragging his team. No, he's not great
13:14Great when you've been overlooked as many times as he feels he has you would react the same way
13:22He's the highest paid player in the NBA leading up to that all the time
13:26He talked about how he was overlooked right one finals MVP goes. I don't win any of this stuff
13:30So it's kind of interesting that I want we said that before the finals. That was the car
13:33That's why I said before he won finals MVP after he won
13:41Rewarded him with the highest salary in the league. Yeah, the Celtics may not overlook him
13:45But the rest of the NBA does he feels that way Greg here? He won the NBA Finals
13:49He won the MVP like because legacy matters. Oh my god
13:54And what's impacting his legacy not being on the Olympic team, but it is not being on the Olympic teams
13:59Not being on all NBA teams like things like that impact your leg. What do you think's more relevant being the finals MVP?
14:05Or being an Olympian in the finals MVP, right?
14:09It's still part of the athlete and him
14:12Wanting his respect because at the end of the day if he made an Olympic team or he has this tweet when he retires
14:19Nobody's gonna remember this tweet people would remember the fact that he's you know on an Olympic team or on an L all NBA team
14:25Right you talk about him getting into the Hall of Fame
14:27Nobody's gonna give a rat's ass that he tweeted a couple little Sherlock Holmes emojis a Hall of Famer
14:31Don't worry about it. They let everybody in the NBA or the basketball Hall of Fame including us, but I would say
14:36Why do we believe he wasn't on the team was it play or personality?
14:42Personality so what he did yesterday just proves their point, but that's but see that we shouldn't live in the world like that
14:49We just live in the world personality is important when it comes to team chemistry. Why do you think DMS is with Greg?
14:55But it's not about team chemistry
14:59Actually a pretty good-looking fella, and I'm very funny
15:05His issue isn't his personality for team chemistry it might be his it might just be his political
15:15It also might be that there are those that are playing on that team of
15:20Of greater stature who do don't like the vibe what's more like I mean, I don't know I like I don't know
15:27Let me ask you this question that because none of us know
15:30But what's more likely that there was somebody on that team player wise? Who's not a fan of his or?
15:37Nike
15:38Said we don't want a guy
15:41Representing a representing does Nike have that much control over the Olympics
15:45The u.s.. Really for the team yeah, I think for Team USA