You're listening to Draft King's Network. Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

I'm your host, Andrew Brand, produced by Jack Connell, musical producer.

That music you hear under us is my son, Sam Brand.

We're presented, as always, by Draft Kings.

Thanks for joining this unique look around the world of the business of sports every week,

except when I have guests like I did last year, with Tisha Penicero talking about

women's basketball. I'll just give you a run around the world of business of sports with my

perspectives, my insights. Hope you enjoy. It's usually about a half hour, whatever you're doing.

You can get through it. You can listen. You can be informed, entertained, and hopefully make your understanding of

sports smarter and better. That's my goal. Hope it happens. Okay. Let's get to it right away. We are

fresh off. It's Wednesday morning, I'm sorry, Tuesday morning, June 18th last night.

Not many hours ago, the Boston Celtics were crowned as NBA champions.

And obviously, from the sports angle, then we'll get to the business angle.

I think it's a massive win for the Celtics to go wire to wire basically all year.

They're considered the best.

They were the best.

They won something like 80 games and lost something like 20 games.

Just an extraordinary record, an extraordinary year. It's hard to be the favorite and go through it.

I thought wrongly in looking at the NBA off season last year that despite getting two studs, I thought they were trading out depth

and would not be as good as last year because they traded out four for two. So the Celtics traded

out Marcus Smart, who was said to be a glue guy for the team. They traded out Malcolm Brogden,

a really nice guard. They traded out Grant Williams, and they traded out Robert Williams,

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