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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Historical and Future Perspective on Jaylen Brown’s Supermax, Plus Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on Jaylen Brown's massive supermax contract and why it actually makes sense (0:35) before talking with seven-time NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady about comparing basketball eras, James Harden's trade request, stories from Tracy's career, and more (11:34). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (37:43). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Tracy McGrady Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We'll take a look at the Jaylen Brown contract, yeah it's huge, but maybe there's a reason

0:16.0

why we need to look at the contract a little differently.

0:18.4

We're going to start with Tracy Begrady, awesome stuff here on his run.

0:22.9

I know the Kobe quotes that were going around, I have a Celtic story that I want to ask

0:26.1

to go about, about them not drafting him and then of course his talent versus the resume.

0:32.8

Life advice, enjoy.

0:35.0

I want to start with Jaylen Brown, we didn't do it earlier in the week when it came out

0:37.8

because we were taping and I, with a contract, especially one this big, the largest NBA

0:41.9

history, I want to be able to go through it, spend a little time on it and since there's

0:44.6

no real other headline for this, I'm going to go ahead and do it, although congrats

0:47.4

Aaron Rodgers.

0:48.8

So look, if you read the headline, you go five years, three and a four million for Jaylen

0:53.3

Brown, which is the highest contract in NBA history, you go, wait, what?

0:57.1

A deal is going to pay him $70 million in $28.29 and if you ask that question, if you

1:03.4

go, well does that make sense?

1:06.1

I think a lot of you would say no and I get it.

1:09.1

If you're in the Celtics front office and you're debating what to do on this extension,

1:13.4

you've probably been talking about it for like a year and a half and you go, do we want

1:18.8

to sign Jaylen Brown to a deal that pays him more than anybody else in NBA history?

1:25.3

Now, if you're in the front office and you're trying to figure this out, going into July,

1:29.2

that's not really the fair question, it's not the right question.

1:31.4

The right question is if we don't do this, what are the alternatives?

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