This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast.

You have heard for a while now Mike Ryan sort of yawn and say, hey, Boston Celtics,

for all this talk of you are a winning franchise, this particular century, you have not done a lot of winning. Doc Rivers is

living still off the championship he won when you had the greatest trio in the league. But the

Celtics don't merely have five straight 50 win seasons and now 12 straight playoff seasons. They also have a front

office that's been pretty aggressive the last few years and can be put in the class of the

Spurs and Oklahoma City when you're talking about great architecture that's not afraid. Brad

Stevens has made a crazy evolution. That town has been very lucky with

its executive. Theo Epstein, very young, ends up winning titles with the Red Sox when he's

uncommonly young. And Brad Stevens makes the journey from an unusual journey at his age,

from you could have been coaching all of this,

but you decided to oversee it when you could be the beneficiary of everything that's

happening here as the coach, but you wanted to be in the front office.

And now Sam Amick is reporting, they're interested in Janus.

And they are known to have interest and are seen in league's circles as possible suitors.

And that's someone that you would trade a Jalen Brown for and how much better are they

going to do than a Jalen Brown? Do you think they would trade Jalen Brown? I wouldn't. He's had an incredible season. Yeah, I'm not sure that they would. Yonis is 32. Okay, so wait a minute. So how many players are there in the league? I was not making, I was thinking that there might be three or four players in the league that you would not trade Janus for, and Jalen Brown was not one of them before this season.

Now, you guys may have, like, Jaylon, my information is a little bit old in that I was looking at a Jalen Brown before finals MVP, who the heat were able to force to his left and make him

dribble and they ended up completely altering the way that his game was. But yes, I think Yannis

is a better player than Jalen Brown. Obviously, he's not younger than Jalen Brown. But in order to

make contracts work out, I don't think the Celtics could get, do I have this wrong? You're probably right about that. I don't think the Celtics could get Janice for anything less than either Tatum or Jalen Brown. And the question I'm asking you guys after that is, are the Bucks going to do any better than someone like Jalen Brown if indeed the Celtics are interested in this? No, if they put that on the table, like that's an easy win for Milwaukee to get Jalen Brown. Obviously, he comes with a $300 million price tag. Between him and Jason Dayton, we're talking about $600 million, but they can't have all three. But if you're Milwaukee and you're looking at every package around the league and you're going, Jalen Brown, who's completely, you know, redone his career from the outside of, he couldn't dribble left and now he was an MVP candidate through the season? Like, that's a big gap. And a final's MVP. Boy, can you imagine the reward for Jalen Brown having the best year of his career and getting finals votes is being traded to a team that's rebuilding?

No.

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