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00:00doing well how are you guys i got a little bit of a cold so if i sound like rudolph when his
00:04like the claymation rudolph nose gets stuffed up that's what that's what's going on uh before we
00:10get to the celtics into basketball you wanted to add an ick yeah i don't this is a general
00:16ick of everyone when people say that's funny and they don't laugh good one
00:22that is a good one i hate that i don't know why it bothers me so much oh that's funny
00:30and then there's no laugh that's and you what was the one that you texted to courtney
00:34oh i hate i hate when men wear their sunglasses on the back of their heads yeah oh yeah
00:40especially if they're rocking the buzzcut like you are right now and it's just like the little side
00:45the little oakley sunglasses sitting back there it's so gross i hate it wiki and i are i don't
00:52know where you stand but both obsessed with uh celtic city episode two yes um did you watch
01:00yes absolutely i thought it was i thought it was really interesting i think it's really hard to
01:05overstate how much bill russell did for the city on top of the nba and they just did such an
01:11excellent job with it yeah that in the in the i don't want to use the word hatred because that's
01:18a strong word or his just his displeasure with the city of boston parts of it yeah like i mean
01:25other than roxbury he was like you know you know it seemed like in the other wouldn't you yeah oh
01:30yeah all day long all day long but the fact that you know he's one of the biggest superstars of
01:36that time playing i was i was shocked i didn't know this but when he won the the his 11th and
01:43final championship uh he just like took off yeah like didn't go to the parade and and didn't stay
01:51i thought it was it was nice it was an irish exit yeah it's what we love he just ghosted but i think
01:56that's part of like you know his whatever the words you want to use his uh very complicated
02:05relationship with the city of boston and you know playing here um it's and that's why it's
02:14interesting to see and it was cool to hear from the guy you brought up greg who who was a fan
02:19who's like 73 and actually saw the starting the all-black starting five but it's very it's cool
02:24to be from here and kind of like see how the different eras were because i wasn't just love
02:31i like i love history and i so i all the stuff that they add in uh about what was going on at
02:39the time here and uh what was like seeing them at the white house visiting jfk like i seeing the
02:48pictures of uh red hour back and bill russell right like in the shower after winning you know
02:54fully clothed right like uh don't make that sound pause uh was just it was cool it's it's really
03:02that's why i can't wait till the 80s era because that's more of the the era that i'm around i know
03:08you and i were talking maybe the 70s they dive into the busting situation and i know it gets
03:13discounted because of the competition level or the amount of teams that were in the nba
03:20but that dynasty and they get into it with the yankees and they get into it with the packers but
03:26that dynasty winning 11 of 13 championships right yeah it's eight in a row it's eight eight in a
03:35row crazy i think jackie mcmullin did such a amazing job just saying like the competition
03:41is the competition it doesn't matter and it's just never going to be done again it'll never be done
03:46it's the greatest dynasty in sports ever period i had the immense uh honor of being able to talk
03:53to bob koozie and tommy heinsohn before he passed on a big project we did at the boston herald
03:59several years ago where we talked to them about will people understand their legacy after they're
04:06gone it was right after john havlicek had passed away and those guys had real concerns about like
04:13do modern nba fans will they get it yeah will they get what it meant will they get
04:20what they established for the nba and i i think it's something they do i don't think so well it
04:27was interesting talking to your kids no i don't know breeze hill doesn't no i think i think guys
04:32in the league do i think guys who come through the celtics like oh they tommy was saying for
04:38example one person who he spent a lot of time talking with was rayjean rondo and that rondo
04:43was like super super curious about celtics history and all of that and i don't know if it's like
04:48league wide but there have been a lot of guys who have come through who just like really embrace it
04:53and want to understand the context of what they're playing but i'm talking more about the fans here
04:58locally yeah i don't think you know what i mean like fans here locally how much was embedded
05:04into them when they were younger about that era even though they didn't see it so
05:09that i guess that's a question apparently according to this woman who's texting it's
05:13an ick when somebody said when a guy says he's a history buff i'm sorry
05:19why because they think it's like you got you got like a bunch of old thing history
05:24channel documentaries on vhs in your apartment i do love history
05:29sorry that's why i like boston it's really really good um so litmus tests this evening
05:36yeah these guys yes they had the first one saturday and passed with flying colors yeah they
05:40did um what did you make of that hard foul on lebron james uh saturday night i it was difficult
05:48because the first half was like everything that you wanted from celtics lakers and kudos to al
05:55horford for turning back the clock he completely locked down lebron when he was on him he was
06:00picking lucas pocket like al was tremendous and he has been for the last couple of weeks so i think
06:06he deserves the recognition but the second half i was like man i need to see this series i need to
06:13see this finals because lebron leaves with five minutes left and has his groin injury or whatever
06:20and lucas starts going off a little bit i was like there's just so much more here and i feel
06:26confident that the celtics without getting ahead of myself that if they were both in the finals
06:29that the celtics would win but i want there's so much more juice to that i want that next chapter
06:34of the rivalry it'll be a better series versus oklahoma city because oklahoma city will be a
06:39better matchup than the lakers will i think against the celtics because even think about
06:44that game the lakers were doing something that they don't normally do and they were what 50
06:49from the three-point line maybe after the first quarter something like that the way that game
06:54started shooting wise was just unusual yeah okc is a better team and especially defensively
07:01they have the best defended field goal percentage in the entire league which means that they're just
07:08the you you have a one of the hottest shooting teams three-point shooting teams in the celtics
07:12going up against the best defensive team on shooters and on top of that they've got wildly
07:18active hands so you could see the old turnover celtics come out if things go awry and i agree
07:25like basketball wise that's that's probably a more dynamic matchup be a better series
07:30celtics likers yeah like i want 40 year old lebron to go out there and prove that he still has it
07:37wiki doesn't want that he doesn't know i want that i want that when curtis and i have just been
07:42you know and i think you're on the same page with me he believes that adam silver called up
07:47the dallas mavericks and said hey listen get luka to the glakers so we can get ratings back
07:53uh i love how things keep getting real oh i just got a text from my buddy fitzy on a truck and he
07:58says wiggy's wrong but that's what but isn't his point was the league and the commission good
08:03argument i'm getting text it's working out pretty well but that's his thing but that's where him and
08:10it was a curtspiracy right which has come true no it's as they all do that game saturday night
08:17no had the best ratings of a regular season game in seven years do you think it's the
08:25it's luka donchage on the oh guess what the celtics played the lakers last year and the
08:31year before and the year before that you told us that we had no rivalry no no but a so then
08:37even tater said it i know he did but then you but you're missing the point of course can i ask
08:42kurt a question curtis so do you think that this is like a decades-long conspiracy because i was
08:48just thinking about watching the second episode last night like will chamberlain got traded to
08:54the lakers after he was mvp is this a conspiracy that you think goes back to the 60s uh no i don't
09:01but i do think it's weird the lakers are called the lakers and there's no lake nearby that is a
09:04conspiracy that well we're not talking about that conspiracy we're talking about the lakers tie in
09:10with the front offices of the nba fans are really scared that their league isn't like they're very
09:16defensive of it more so than fans maybe baseball is similar but his 60s people like they they get
09:21together his 60s conspiracy is the faked moon landing so just gotta keep that it'd be like
09:27if luca landed on golden state the ratings probably be pretty good if the celtics played
09:32golden state a couple weeks later i i just love the manifestations of the argument from wiki
09:37because at the beginning it was nobody cares you're wrong the lakers are good the lakers are
09:42always you don't you don't listen my only beef with you was i don't think it was something done
09:49by the league i think it's great for the league but my thing was it wasn't done by the league it
09:54was done because one owner for the dallas mavericks or whoever they are are morons you have a gm who's
10:02a moron so that's all i said i think it's good for the league but is the gm still employed yeah
10:08why i can't listen ask you know why he's employed because the owner of the mavericks the same owner
10:14who shipped luca out of there and then raised ticket prices eight percent so it was the owner
10:19that made the trade now because before you said it was the gm no i'm saying that the owners of
10:23dallas are morons so of course they're going to employ a guy who doesn't know what the hell he's
10:27doing okay something that's actually going on right now though chris stops his tweet saying
10:31that it's like a viral illness that they can't figure out that's worrisome yeah it's been kind
10:36of strange because usually when you see somebody with non-covid illness on an nba injury report
10:42he's saying all right that guy will be back next game or the game after that with chris stops i
10:48would guess like he's been around the team philadelphia that game last thursday he was
10:53all over the bench he was high-fiving everybody so it's not like he's quarantined he was walking
10:58around in his like swaggy celtic jacket and he seemed to really expect that he was going to play
11:04saturday night against the lakers so i think it's probably something where they're being overly
11:09cautious with him and if you think about just like his body type so let's say he has some kind he had
11:16a virus and it really depleted him like he's not gonna get back to himself as quickly as somebody
11:23like you and me courtney in terms of like our size yeah you know like that's a big and also
11:29kind of delicate body so i'm sure he's got to rehydrate he's got to get ready to be back in
11:35i'm not worried about it being an injury i think it really is just some virus he had what about
11:40jason tatum being questionable tonight for this game in particular i know it's a regular season
11:46yeah this is a big game i know i have high expectations that you go to a game you might
11:49get to see jason are you going tonight i'm not i went i went monday night and i have a date night
11:55tonight you can't you can't make celtics sideline date night i don't like to be greedy like
12:04i'm not that i'm not worried about that if you look at me yeah they're claiming it's the knee
12:08again if if you're looking at where we are in the schedule they're starting to get into that
12:12taper period where there's a long road trip coming up they got a six game road trip to
12:19round out the season and they are gonna hit the playoffs i think this is when you're just
12:24going to start to see the load management that everybody loves yeah and and i i think that
12:30and tatum's not that type of guy so i don't think when people like if tatum can play he's gonna play
12:37especially in a game like this so i don't think tatum falls into that category where people would
12:41be like oh i spent all this money then you got a superstar like that was like oh i don't feel
12:45like playing that's not tatum's mo so then you think it's more serious if he doesn't play tonight
12:50then then he wouldn't be able to go uh no i i think that it would be serious in the sense that
12:57he would be battling with missoula on letting him play and joe would be like we don't need
13:02you to play tatum we don't want you to for whatever reason i don't think the injury is
13:06serious i don't even know how much is i mean missoula say as their exercise science people
13:12looking at it and saying like dude you played over 45 minutes on saturday night against the
13:17lakers the playoffs are so close we need to treat this in a scientific way of you chilling for a
13:24little bit even though you're just newly turned 27 and isn't it gonna like factor in how
13:32we look at this game to be a good test for them and it you know potentially an nba's finals
13:40matchup maybe they look at it like you're right mega where we don't have the same type of view of
13:46this game we're looking to get our guys ready to get us ready for the postseason because you said
13:51the next nine out of or eight out of nine games you're saying they're overlooking them or just
13:57regular season it's not important yeah not yeah it's more regular season we got eight or nine
14:01games on the road coming up after this you know maybe we want to rest guys here and there well
14:07in okc it'll be interesting to see what they do too because they obviously played the nuggets on
14:11sunday and 1 p.m and that was their big game of the weekend like you had your big game so
14:18there's a possibility you could go into this game it's a little bit of like experimentation before
14:22the playoffs i just think for how little you get to see teams from the western conference who might
14:27be in the finals you should take advantage of the situation you got to put your money on it
14:31think he plays tonight yeah hate him yeah i would big goose a big goose big taco taco yeah
14:39Celtics took to social media and the the fans have spoken and they chose big deuce i like big
14:44goose over taco and the what was the other one i feel like we're still still looking for something
14:49i know he said saturday he was like this this is what my friends call me my friends call me taco
14:55taco jay i just feel like we haven't had one that's really clicked yet yeah the anomaly was
15:01the other one i think right yeah boy what a tough cat it is to play it all right well um so you like
15:12them tonight to win even without jason tatum uh i do but i think like i i'm not i'm not going into
15:19this looking at it and saying this is representative of what a finals might be because again like
15:25i don't know if christophe swerzing is i i would be surprised if he plays tonight maybe he will who
15:29knows um it's just this point in the regular season where everybody's starting to look towards
15:34the playoffs and adjust themselves that way okay hope you get better quick thanks i actually feel
15:39great like it's just the beginning of the cold is when you always feel like trash and the end is
15:44when you sound like trash but you actually have your energy back so i'm good the sun courtney
15:49and i are both going to be in florida at separate destinations so we're gonna we're both gonna lay
15:53out yeah we're gonna be very tan the next week when you see us when he's laughing because he
15:58thinks we're gonna come back just like don't touch me like two lobsters walking in please don't touch
16:04me is the tanning the fake tan stuff uh the stuff you guys put on all over the bed is that a nick i
16:11put it on the list it's on the list yeah yeah i saw a lot of people get to say their aches too oh
16:17yeah yeah okay we don't have like a walking ex yeah we don't have many men yeah we don't have
16:23many all right may go thank you