Rick Celebrini

I'm a little more optimistic because of the Warriors' plan and the fact that they do tend to play it pretty safe and do it the right way.

And Rick Celebrini is as good as it gets at laying out these plans and making sure that players are managed.

So it's a truly unique situation.

for Jimmy Butler at his age to be going through this, and it's not like somebody that would be having this at 27 or even 32.

I mean, and, and unfortunately for the Warriors, and, and the hope was that...

Well, first of all, w- when Kristaps Porziņģis said last April that, he, he described Dr. Rick Celebrini as the GOAT.

Mm-hmm.

You know, which to me said, okay, when he becomes a free agent, that's gonna be one of the factors.

The Raptors were never...

I mean, it's not even a conversation, not even something that the Raptors... would entertain or you know even give an ounce of life to but Here's someone who has not only studied under Alex McKechnie, he both played and also has worked alongside Rick Celebrini, who is Golden State's very highly rated head of medical.

And so this is, you know, he is someone from the McKechnie Celebrini tree.

So that's something that obviously you would imagine.

I just don't know how you could back up this guy being on the court.

magic, man.

magic.

Some things are even too big for Rick.

Mark Stein also reported this week that, um, former Canadian soccer player Nico Berg, who has studied under Alex McKechnie in Toronto and thus would naturally appeal to new Mavericks president of basketball operations, Masai Ujiri, has emerged as a prime candidate and is expected to land the position.

He has provided consulting to teams in the NFL, NHL, uh, English Premier League, as well as a close associate with McKechnie, uh, and Golden State's, uh, Rick Celebrini, two of the most highly rated experts in injury prevention space, in the injury prevention space.

Uh, so the Mavs are looking at him as coming on to be the head of, of medical, head of, you know, whatever, uh, you know, title [laughs] or title at, at the end that, um, uh, the, that they gave, uh, the head there.

And so I, I think that this is great.

That, that's not even what it is.

We're talking about autoimmune and beyond, things that are just uncontrollable that, that Rick Celebrini can do his best to manage.

But until we actually figure out what it is, I'm not banking on him playing more than 60 games this season.

50 would be a nice benchmark.

It's the variables, right? And that's what's so interesting about that.

Is the variable of Rick Celebrini having to put on his PhD cap nonstop and put on his cape and try to be Superman for them? I mean, Steph Curry is not the only superhero here.

It's Rick Celebrini, too.

He's the real Batman and Robin if we're going to be real at the beginning of the year.

So, yeah, there are just so many variables to this team.