I first want to start off.

We got Jim Murray in from Az, by the way.

Tim McCone in the Update Studios.

Dan, the Angry Call Screener and Jimmy Stewart behind the glass.

You know the number, 617779-0-985. How you doing, Murray? Very good. I'm pumped. Pumped as a Celtics fan? I am, yeah. I'm excited about this team. like legitimately real deal excited about this team

the first time in like five years.

They got real interesting overnight, didn't they?

Yeah, just like that.

And to me, it's Danny Aange taking a look at this. real deal excited about this team the first time in like five years. They got real interesting overnight, didn't they?

Yeah, just like that. And to me, it's Danny Aange taking a look at this team, the 53 wins, the one seed in the east last year, and he looked at them and said, I'm done pretending. I'm not going to do this anymore. These are the Bridge Celtics. We're not close. Last year was Fools Gold. The one seed, all of that, it was fools' gold.

So he blew it up.

Thankfully, he blew it up. Thankfully, he blew it up, and he went younger in the process, and adds a legit, puts asses in the seats, moves the needle, super-duper star and Kyrie Irving. And I love it. I don't know how people can't love this move. Do you think the bridge Celtics are done?

Yeah, I do. Overnight, they're no longer a bridge to. Bang, just like that. Burn the bridge. Had I not lost the whiteboard, I would have brought it in today and drawn the bridge with fire on it. They're not the bridges anymore. They're the Celtics. You can take them seriously now. Okay. My lead take is rejecting what has been surmised or reported or opined elsewhere.

And I'll go right to our website on Comcast, our being cSNN-e.com. And I don't know why we do this.

But boy, do we have it wrong on our headline? Just so wrong, guys. And do we do this to make the team feel good?

Or like, why do we do this? And Sherrod Blakely wrote the story. He doesn't write the headline, so he's not responsible for the headline. But the headline is another heist for Celtics. Oh, no, that's not. Another heist for Celtics. I don't think that's true at all. Subhead. that the Celtics acquired Kyrie Irving without giving up Jason Tatum

makes this as impressive a deal as the one they pulled off with Brooklyn in 2013. Guys, that's just dumb. I'm sorry, that's stupid. It might turn out to be a heist. How can you sit here today and compare those two deals? Do we do this just to make

the Celtics happy? I don't know. I mean, it's not a slam dunk trade. I think it's pretty even.

The calves got a good haul here. This is a tough, risky trade, which is why I love it. This is

what I've been asking Danny to do for years, which is quit trying to just bend someone over your knee

and spank them because those deals don't come along every day.

Eventually, you're going to have to come to the table and give something to get something.

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