48 Minutes "Two-a-Days" Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets

All right, Bruce, last year, your Celtics were arguably the biggest surprise team, finishing the season with the second best record in the East at 56 and 26, despite Jason Tatum missing 66 of your 82 regular season games.

But then your Celtics made the biggest surprise move of the offseason, deciding to trade Jalen Brown to the 76ers for Paul George.

So with all that being said, where are you with your squad just weeks away from training camp started? For

reasons that I will never understand, there were a lot of Jalen Brown haters in Boston, but most of them don't really understand the game.

So they're going to be happy that Brown is gone.

But, you know, for people who understand basketball, there's no reason to celebrate his departure from the Celtics perspective.

But if it turns out that Jason Tatum has a year like JB had last year, the Celtics could exceed the modest expectations that many have for them.

Paul George needs some big-time load management so he can be healthy and strong later in the season, but that could mean maybe a 60-game cap for him at most.

Mitchell Robinson, a key defender for the Championship Dicks team, will make an impact guarding the paint, pining the glass.

But he's another guy who's had injury problems and needs to stay healthy.

So those two guys are going to have to keep a real close eye on those newcomers and their health.

Derek White, Peyton Pritchard, they're still there, as is seven-footer Nimi Keita.

But if young guys like Hugo Gonzalez, Baylor Sharma, Luka Garza, and Jordan Walsh get more minutes, they're going to have to perform,

okay?

They're going to miss Jalen's leadership.

They're going to miss his talent, his toughness.

But now Jason Tatum has his big chance to be the undisputed alpha dog with JV and Philly.

We'll see what he comes up with this season.