Welcome to a Wednesday edition of Lock On NBA. We actually just got done

recording our show and just as we got done news broke that Boston Celtics Center, Al-Horford, will decline to exercise this

30.1 million-dollar player option for next season and plans to leave the team

as an unrestricted free agent this summer and seek a long-term

deal elsewhere in the range of three or four years and this is big news because we

knew that Kyrie Irving was leaving.

And it seems like there's zero chance

that he goes back to Boston at this point.

Looks most likely like it'll end up in Brooklyn.

Losing Kyrie Irving, losing Al-Horford, would obviously be a big blow.

David and I, we're going to talk about this a little bit right now.

We're going to get into some of the Houston Rockets drama.

It's all drama right now.

It's the NBA off season it never stops

we're gonna get into that drama a little bit later in the show and then Ben

Goliver will join us as well to talk about the Lakers talk about Kaway

and all this stuff but you're you're just immediate takeaways David we're

recording this within minutes of this news breaking.

I don't find it all that surprising to be honest with you.

I mean look I think Kyrie was the linchpin holding this team together at least as far as any kind of off season plans were concerned.

Like everything was geared up towards him resigning and then from that point forward possibly swinging a deal for Anthony Davis obviously

that's done that move to Los Angeles killed any kind of hope so given that it

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