While Manuel Horford has COVID-19, I'm going to be talking about that, and some pre-season

impressions of the Celtics with Joe Sway Pavon right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast.

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Today I'm going to be talking to Joe Sway Pavon, who on Twitter at Joe underscore Sway, host of the Causeway Street podcast,

co-hosts with Cedric Maxwell on the CLNS Media Network. Very good conversation there.

Al Horford has tested positive for COVID-19. Don't know what's going on with that as far as, I mean, I know he's an isolation.

It appears that he did not travel with the team. Our next opportunity to talk with the Celtics is before the Wednesday night game.

So Celtics have been off last conversation we had with Emil Adoco, who was on Sunday.

There have been no media available abilities since then. So we're kind of stuck here and unable to ask certain questions.

So that's coming up on Wednesday. So we'll learn more about that. But right now, Al Horford out with COVID,

and you've got Jaylen Brown out with COVID for a while. A bunch of guys resting in this game Wednesday night.

So let's get into it. Let's figure out what's going to happen on Wednesday night and get into our thoughts on the preseason with Joe Sway Pavon.

All right, Joe Sway, how you feeling, man? First of all, welcome back to the show.

Of course, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. It's preseason vibes, right? We were just talking about it. So everyone's feeling great right now.

Oh, man, this is the teams. The team's going to be a three seed. Everybody, literally, I just did a lockdown preview, which I think is going to drop on Wednesday as well.

And it's all like the hopeful. So it's the guys from, you know, Chicago and Atlanta and.

If you like a few, you know, there's like six of us. And we're all like, yeah, I think this thing could be the fourth seed.

Like six teams are all sitting there like, yeah, I think the fourth season's legit.

It's not going to happen for everybody. Yeah.

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