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The Valenti Show

Are the Celtics' Players Too Likeable to Hate?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Are Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum's respectable journeys a deterrent to hate and criticism?

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0:00.0

Piston Celtics tonight and I have a question conundrum whatever and I wonder if other people

0:10.0

this happens to or am I'm just an idiot as you most of you know I grew up in Philadelphia so So in my day when I was growing up as a kid, the Boston Celtics were the antichrist.

0:24.3

I mean, Wilt was my favorite, first favorite athlete, and it was always Wilt versus Russell,

0:29.0

and the Celtics won, like, 95% of them except for the one year.

0:33.4

And then as I got older, a Celtics Sixers 2.0, you know, Doc and, you know, versus Larry Bird and that whole crew.

0:44.9

Then I move here and I embrace the bad boys because the bad boys played basketball all the way my Philadelphia Flyers, Broad Street Bullies played hockey.

0:57.0

So I love the bad boys.

0:58.2

And who was their biggest rival?

1:00.1

The Celtics.

1:00.9

I always, my whole life, I've always hated the Boston Celtics.

1:07.6

Even, you know, the Garnett and Pierce and Ray Allen, that whole faux, big three, whatever you want to call it, I didn't like them either.

1:16.1

However, I have found that maybe it's an age thing, that their last, you know, and this group of team, the team that won the championship, but I noticed a few years before when they, what, they lost the Golden State in the finals, right? Who on that team, though, is really, like, hateable?

1:33.6

Jason Tatum's not hateable. Jalen Brown is not hateable. You know, a holiday is not hateable.

1:41.4

So I really didn't, I don't hate the Celtics players.

1:45.6

There's still something about the uniform, so I'm not going to root for them.

1:48.7

But like when the Celtics would have played like LeBron or whatever, I was rooting for the Celtics

1:54.1

against the heat.

1:55.4

And I found it really weird.

1:57.1

So is there that team who you hated your whole life that for some reason, because of the

2:03.8

players, not the jerseys, because I know we root for the jerseys, you know what, I don't

2:07.9

hate them as much as I did. Like the Cowboys, I think I will always hate, especially because Jerry,

2:14.4

especially as one as Jerry Jones and that family owns the team. And Ohio State, I will always say.

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