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Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

Should Celtics GO FOR IT on trade market? | NBA Cup NEEDS FIXING

Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Boston Celtics face a grueling schedule as Jaylen Brown rests, highlighting the toll of the NBA’s early-season, condensed slate driven by the In-Season Tournament. Is the league risking top talent with an overloaded calendar? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal and Tom Westerholm of Boston.com critique NBA scheduling, explore injury concerns, and discuss why the NBA Cup fails to engage fans and players—even as the Celtics sit atop the Eastern Conference standings. Trade season heats up as Giannis Antetokounmpo’s future in Milwaukee stirs speculation and possible ripple effects across the conference. Should Boston cash in assets for a game-changing center like Ivica Zubac or stay the course with a rising core led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown? Key insights touch on Anfernee Simons’ trade value, the pitfalls of overextending in the market, and why Boston’s front office must balance aggression and prudence. Will the Celtics seize the moment and strengthen their title bid?

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0:00.0

Jalen Brown needs a break and it's for a very dumb reason.

0:03.2

And what should the Celtics do at the trade deadline or at least in trade season?

0:08.6

It's all right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast.

0:13.7

Uh-huh.

0:14.9

Yep.

0:16.9

Be in town.

0:18.3

Be ever ready.

0:19.6

It's the C's.

0:20.4

Who else could it be? What they're going to say now?

0:22.6

Screaming like JT.

0:23.6

Corralic, we kept the madness every game, every practice. Crime time, Depp and T. White on the sideline. Rain and Jace, how we started, raise a business. How we finish. Lock on Celtics Pod, home of the winners. Hey, welcome back to the lockdown Celtics podcast right here in the lockdown podcast.

0:39.5

Network, where does your team every day?

0:41.3

Your team is the boss in Celtics, and I talk about them every Monday through Friday. Plus, I'll give you a bonus podcast when they play on weekends like this Friday. They play the Lakers, and I will give you a podcast after that. Every one of these is free.

0:56.0

It's available everywhere. It's on YouTube. So getting there and share your thoughts with me. If you're new to the show, I'm John Corallis, Pete writer for Boston Sports Journal. I have been covering this team in some form for 20 years, doing this podcast for 10. I also have a couple of books out about the Celtics as well.

1:12.1

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1:20.7

on game time later on on we're going to talk about the trade the the approach at you know know, in trade season, where at the beginning of

1:30.2

December, we're about a week and a half away from the soft launch of trade season. And what should

1:36.8

the Celtics do? Should this start affect what Brad Stevens does in his approach? That's coming

1:42.3

up later on. But we got to start with this schedule.

1:47.6

And I say we because it's going to be me and Tom Westerholm, everybody.

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