Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 16 segments
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vastly improved i mean we're talking about the washington wizards like that's a whole new like they're taking things serious in washington finally like they got they obviously traded for trey young last year and ad you know gonna got the number one pick and took aj and they got a lot of good young pieces there you know are they a team that's ascending you know we're gonna talk about the detroit pistons you know obviously number one ck did his thing last year all nba but you know they almost They almost got tripped up in round one against an Orlando team that was struggling and barely got into the playoffs.
And then they look like the team they should have looked like all season until being up 3-1.
And then they look like the team they look like for the whole season, the inconsistency, and they wound up blowing that.
Can we repeat the Knicks? Can the Knicks repeat? You got Miami, your Miami Heat adding Giannis.
What are some, and LeBron going to Philly, Jalen Brown getting traded within the division, you know, Kenneth Celtics, like there's so many things.
What are some things that you're looking forward to or some storylines that are really intriguing to you out East first?
And I think with the Celtics, you finally traded in Jalen Brown after, what, a decade, right, of high-level success where you went to two NBA finals.
You were damn near in the conference finals pretty much every year, it felt like.
A lot of people doubted them last year, and obviously JB carried them to, I believe, with the second seed before they lost in the first round to the Philadelphia 76ers.
I know that was rough, but you were dealing with trying to integrate Jason Tatum back into the lineup.
You didn't really have any bigs that could match up with them, so overall it was just a bad matchup.
I feel like a lot of people were kind of expecting this eventually to happen because let's be honest, like these last 10 years or however long, like ever since Jason Tatum got drafted, they've essentially been comparing Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown to each other.
vastly improved i mean we're talking about the washington wizards like that's a whole new like they're taking things serious in washington finally like they got they obviously traded for trey young last year and ad you know gonna got the number one pick and took aj and they got a lot of good young pieces there you know are they a team that's ascending you know we're gonna talk about the detroit pistons you know obviously number one ck did his thing last year all nba but you know they almost They almost got tripped up in round one against an Orlando team that was struggling and barely got into the playoffs.
And then they look like the team they should have looked like all season until being up 3-1.
And then they look like the team they look like for the whole season, the inconsistency, and they wound up blowing that.
Can we repeat the Knicks? Can the Knicks repeat? You got Miami, your Miami Heat adding Giannis.
What are some, and LeBron going to Philly, Jalen Brown getting traded within the division, you know, Kenneth Celtics, like there's so many things.
What are some things that you're looking forward to or some storylines that are really intriguing to you out East first?
And I think with the Celtics, you finally traded in Jalen Brown after, what, a decade, right, of high-level success where you went to two NBA finals.
You were damn near in the conference finals pretty much every year, it felt like.
A lot of people doubted them last year, and obviously JB carried them to, I believe, with the second seed before they lost in the first round to the Philadelphia 76ers.
I know that was rough, but you were dealing with trying to integrate Jason Tatum back into the lineup.
You didn't really have any bigs that could match up with them, so overall it was just a bad matchup.
I feel like a lot of people were kind of expecting this eventually to happen because let's be honest, like these last 10 years or however long, like ever since Jason Tatum got drafted, they've essentially been comparing Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown to each other.
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