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Hey, how you doing?

We're doing.

Hey, how you doing? Hey, how you doing? Is Felger and Matt? What? On 985. Unbelievable. The Sports Hub. Well, let's cycle through these calls here first. Matt in Barrington, Rhode Island on the Seltz. Hi, Matt. Hey, I was just wondering what your guys' thoughts are on when Gordon Hayort gets back. what do we do with Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum?

Like, do we trade them or? Hey, I was just wondering what your guys' thoughts are on when Gordon Hayward gets back.

What do we do with Jaylon Brown and Jason Tatum?

Like, do we trade them or?

I don't know. What do we do with them? Okay. Is there redundancy there? Hayward, Brown, Tatum. Sure, yeah, there's a little bit of redundancy, but I think that's the way the Celtics won it. I think that idea. Now, look,

maybe you'll finally get some consistency in terms of scoring off your bench.

That's a good problem to have.

Yeah, and look, I think ultimately the Celtics get some consistency in terms of scoring off your bench. That's a good problem to have.

Yeah, and look, I think ultimately the Celtics are going to move Brown-Oortatim. Like, if there's an Anthony Davis deal to be made, you're going to have to move one. I was going to say, do you draft someone number three overall to bring him off your bench? No. No, they're going to move one of those guys ultimately. And you don't give someone $25 million a year, whatever it was for Hayward to bring him off the bench.

Yeah, right.

And in the interim, I would tell you that they're okay with playing with three wing players. Four. In fact, they put Kyrie and four of them out there together. You know, it'll be those three, Kyrie and Horford. That's the five guys that'll have on the floor when they really want their five best. You'll hold out hope for Hayward this year?

Sure.

No.

I know they have it in the back of their minds. Yeah, I mean, I'm holding out hope. If I were them, I'd play it differently. But do I think there's a shot he plays in May? Yeah, I do. I think there's a chance. The coach essentially just shut it down the other day, that he's not going to return this year. Thank God. That's the only guy in the organization who's talking any sense.

I agree.

But he doesn't believe it. They think he can be back.

But it's smart to say he's not going to return this year. Thank God that's the only guy in the organization who's talking any sense. I agree. But he doesn't believe it. They think he can be back. But it's smart to say he's not coming back. We're not counting on him. We're not put, you know, if we want to hear about it. He's not coming back this year. And then he works on his own. If he comes back, he comes back. That's why they should handle it, but these other guys can't help themselves. Like, everyone else in the organization sort of whispering, like

he can come back. You think there's a problem

here between the player and the team on what they view his season being? Here comes something out of nowhere. Right. Just wondering, like, off the top of my head, just, oh. I'm just asking if the player is forcing the team's hand and the team wants to shut him down for the year. So I need you to stop and back up and start over with your first underground take that came out of nowhere. Go ahead. I'm sorry? Say that again? Say the first thing you said, please. I'm wondering if there's a, if the player, Gordon Hayward, wants to play this season, and if the team wants him shut down for the season, completely.

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