Our good friend Andy Baskin, he works at 92-3, the fan in Cleveland.

Geez, we have him on a lot.

It seems that how many different storylines have there been between Boston and Cleveland over the past year?

This is kind of ridiculous.

This week, the trade and the Red Sox are in Cleveland.

It just always seems to happen.

I mean, it is kind of funny how things work out.

But none bigger than what obviously happened two days ago with the trade between Isaiah Thomas and Kyrie Irving,

and we're still kind of finding out the howls and whys and everything in the background.

Who was a bad teammate, apparently?

So to get a Cleveland perspective on how everything went down, our good friend Andy is on the 18TX expert hotline. Hey, good morning, Andy. Hey, you forgot about every coach or manager that's been in both Boston and Cleveland, too. We could spend an hour doing that. That's an excellent point, an excellent point. Okay, so just your first impression of what went down two days ago. I think it's interesting for the Cavaliers. You know, they got something for now. They get something for later.

I still think, you know,

Kerry's clearly the best player in the steel.

So for me, I was kind of in the minority yesterday. A lot of people around here were like, well, if he doesn't want to play Cleveland, get rid of him, blah, blah, blah. He's a hell of a point guard, man. he's a hell of a guard, I should say.

I think he's more of a two guard than he's a one guard.

But he just, I mean, he's a great basketball player, and we just gave up the Cavendid gave up a great basketball player, and we'll see what happens in return. I mean, I'm excited about his day, Thomas, and I know, you know, I'm excited to watch him play here. I'm excited to see him with LeBron James. And I love his energy and I love the attitude he brought to you guys.

So I can't wait to see him try to do that with the calves and see what they can do this season. So about LeBron James, where is the truth in all this? Did he and Kyrie not get along? I need to hear about them doing a podcast together as little as a month ago, or Kyrie just wants to get out from under LeBron's shadow.

Where's the truth in all this, Andy?

I don't know.

I think it's a convenient truth that, you know, the beginning of the story starts with

Kyrie signing a multi-year deal as a free agent in that first big contract for him

after being a rookie and

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