00:00So, as we all know, preseason, 76ers come to the TD Garden.
00:05Everyone's looking to find out, oh, here we go.
00:08It's the reunion of Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown.
00:11By the way, if anyone was at that game, 617-779-7937,
00:14because as somebody who just lived that game through watching it on TV
00:19and through the memes and all the videos that were beforehand,
00:22it sure as hell looked like Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown
00:26were standing right near each other on the court with their backs
00:29to each other and not saying an effing word the entire time.
00:32For like 30 minutes, this was all in the pregame.
00:35Because J.B. went, he disappeared at the start of the game.
00:38He went in the tunnel, did not watch the game from the court,
00:41watched it in the locker room.
00:43What are we doing?
00:44Which I don't blame him for.
00:45I don't blame him for.
00:46Are you kidding me?
00:47I don't.
00:47What?
00:48If you're on the team, you should be on the bench.
00:51That's preseason.
00:52Are you kidding me?
00:53He doesn't have to stand out there and take the embarrassment of the...
00:55The only thing I could think of is that, is he waiting for regular season?
01:00Like, he doesn't want the pop now.
01:01Of course.
01:02Who cares?
01:03And they're not giving him the tribute video until January.
01:05Because it's a preseason game.
01:07Right.
01:07So why are you going to rip him for going away?
01:08All right.
01:09So there was all this stuff that I thought that, you know,
01:12there's things that were blown out of proportion, whatever.
01:14I don't know.
01:15And that's why I need somebody who might have been there to watch warm-up.
01:19Because all I know is I saw the videos, and people made a huge deal about it.
01:23It was that one video of them with their backs to each other,
01:26like literally, like three feet from each other.
01:30Not speaking to each other.
01:32Didn't say a word.
01:32Like, not even recognizing that each other was there.
01:35I just want to know, before all of that happened and before the tape roll,
01:39was there a high five?
01:40Was there a hug?
01:41Was there a dap?
01:42Because all reports now are that they ignored each other the entire time.
01:48It's amazing.
01:49And the fact that Jalen Brown wouldn't sit on the bench with his team
01:54and watch them play.
01:55Now, come on.
01:55Don't make this a Jalen Brown thing.
01:57Yes, it is.
01:57You would not have done that either.
01:58No.
01:59If you were in his situation, you would not have sat there and watched this game.
02:02Hell no, I wouldn't have.
02:02I'm on the team.
02:03I'm sitting on the bench with my team.
02:05I'm supporting my guys.
02:07Preseason game two of four.
02:08I don't care.
02:10By the way, this is a brand new team, too.
02:12It's not like he knows all these guys.
02:14It's not like he's played with them.
02:15You know what?
02:15You might benefit from sitting there on the bench.
02:17Sitting on the bench?
02:18Yes.
02:18And watching Paul George and Tatum fall out.
02:22Why is he going to sit there and watch that?
02:23Watch his new girlfriends?
02:25Whatever you called them last week?
02:26The ex-girlfriend, new girlfriend?
02:27Oh, yeah, yeah.
02:28Well, that's the thing, is that the whole time that all this was going on with the Celtics,
02:33like, oh, we're just best friends, and we're doing great.
02:35Look at all of us.
02:35We're going to the Citadel together, and we're high-fiving each other, and great vibes is the
02:40social media thing.
02:41And I just thought to myself, the Celtics are acting like a jilted ex-girlfriend, that they
02:47have the revenge bod now with the new guy that they're with.
02:50Oh, everything's so fantastic here.
02:52It's better than it's ever been.
02:53I had a fun year.
02:53This is probably one of my most fun years playing basketball.
02:57Right.
02:57And then you've got him saying all that, too.
02:59This is just so great on this side.
03:01Apparently, Jalen Brown just verified what I said.
03:06Do you have the clip?
03:06Okay, let me take a look at this.
03:08This is life.
03:09It's like he's running into your ex out in public.
03:13Like, damn, we used to go together.
03:16You feel me?
03:18And you just look at him and just be like, dang.
03:20And you just got to go about your business.
03:23You feel me?
03:27It's facts, though.
03:28You feel me?
03:29It's like, damn.
03:30You know what I mean?
03:31So it is what it is, man.
03:33Yeah.
03:33So he's got to verify what I said there.
03:35That's exactly what you said Friday.
03:37I did.
03:37He verified it.
03:38And now you're getting on him for it.
03:40Obviously, he doesn't want to sit out there and watch the new couple.
03:42I'm getting on him because that was such a baby thing to do.
03:51Like, such a middle school thing to do.
03:54To not be on the bench and support your team.
03:57If he's also...
03:58Where was LeBron?
03:58Why wasn't he on the bench?
03:59Dude, I don't care.
04:00Because LeBron's a douche.
04:01We know that.
04:02But Jalen Brown is supposed to be one of the new leaders on this team.
04:06He's supposed to be somebody who is going to go there.
04:08He's won a championship.
04:09These guys can learn from him.
04:11And instead of being there for these dudes that were playing in the preseason game,
04:15he goes down into the locker room and watches him on TV.
04:17Brown, the former Celtic, is in the building.
04:20He is not on the bench.
04:22So we believe he is back in the locker room here in Boston for the first time
04:26since he was traded away this summer after 10 seasons.
04:30All right.
04:30He's not playing.
04:31He doesn't need to be on the bench.
04:32Of course he does.
04:33He's supposed to...
04:34Great text.
04:34This is 207 texter.
04:35Was Tatum on the bench every game last year?
04:38Every game he was healthy?
04:39Yes.
04:40Oh, so what about...
04:41Tatum was...
04:41Tatum was out with a torn ACL and was traveling with the team.
04:45He was everywhere.
04:46JB's out with a broken heart.
04:47Giving him crap.
04:48Broken heart.
04:48If he's...
04:49He did him wrong.
04:50He doesn't have to sit there and take that.
04:51If Jalen Brown is healthy, you know why he didn't do it?
04:54Because he's a puss.
04:55Because he didn't want to hear it from the fans.
04:57You wouldn't have either.
04:58You know what?
04:58And by the way, he's overestimating how people were going to treat him.
05:01He's loved here.
05:02But moves like that are the kind of stuff that make me want to boo him.
05:06Like, are you kidding me?
05:07What?
05:08You're not sitting on the bench and supporting your own team?
05:10In a preseason game?
05:11This is more evidence that that...
05:12He made the trip?
05:13That 76ers team is primed to implode.
05:17The egos on that team.
05:19The people who just think everything revolves around them.
05:22And now Jalen's one of them.
05:23That you couldn't support your team.
05:25You couldn't be there with these new guys that you're playing with and watch them.
05:29Maybe the younger players.
05:30Give them advice.
05:31You're a champion.
05:32You were brought in to help be a leader on this team.
05:34And you couldn't take the preseason Celtics crowd?
05:38Did you sit around in the morning and listen to the Rock Station?
05:40No.
05:41They did you dirty.
05:41So you're not going to listen to them.
05:42Why do you have to sit there and listen to that?
05:44If I was a member of a team and my team was to sit around and listen to it, I
05:48would do it.
05:49Because I...
05:50He doesn't have to.
05:51It's the preseason.
05:52What a baby.
05:52In the regular season, he'll be here.
05:54He'll be balling out.
05:55What a middle school.
05:55You're just making this more than it is.
05:56Now you're convinced, though, Rich, right?
05:58That there was something between Tatum and Brown.
06:01There was something going on.
06:02Yeah.
06:03Well, you see, once again, I'm not going to read too much in the whole thing about them
06:06not talking in the court.
06:07Because I don't know if they high-fived before.
06:08And that video was funny.
06:09But it's, you know, I've learned not to draw too much from one little clip.
06:13You don't know what happened before or after.
06:14I texted Terp.
06:15He was there.
06:16He's busy right now.
06:17But maybe he can call in in a little bit.
06:19But he was there.
06:19And he has some interesting things on what he saw.
06:22Oh, tier one Terp.
06:23Dude, I want to talk to him.
06:24Let's get Terp on the phone for a minute.
06:26Yeah, we reached out to him.
06:27Oh, okay.
06:27I want to hear what he has to say.
06:29Because the fact that he couldn't take the preseason Celtics crowd, it was too much for
06:35him.
06:36Oh, come on, man.
06:37By the way, are you sold on the new duo?
06:39Are you buying the PG-13 Jason Tatum love affair?
06:43Dude, they were dunking on the backups.
06:45I know.
06:45And people, boy, Terp's going to be all...
06:47If he loved Paul George now, wait till we get him on the phone.
06:50He's going to be gushing about it.
06:51Once again, I said this the other day.
06:53You look good in this game.
06:54I'll give him that.
06:54Paul George is like, yo, man, this one's different.
06:56This one just feels different.
06:58It's like, once again, when you break up with a girl and then you go to another girlfriend,
07:01it's like, I've never been with a girl like you before.
07:04Every place, every place he goes, he says the same thing.
07:07George is the trailer.
07:09Bullseye!
07:11It's going to be a good season.
07:12Just for this storyline alone.
07:14So he said, I was pretty happy that Jalen Brown was coming back to Boston to see him
07:17until the crappy pulled the other night.
07:21I can't wait to boo the crap out of him.
07:23That's the thing.
07:23I said that people earned their boos.
07:25He just earned his boo.
07:26You couldn't, during a preseason game in a city where you were loved, you couldn't bear
07:33to sit on the bench and watch your team and support your team.
07:36When he came, he made an appearance.
07:37The team wouldn't talk to him.
07:38He was around.
07:39Tatum wouldn't even turn around and say hello.
07:41Yeah, but Ken, why even go out there and warm up to then just go into the tunnel and locker
07:44room?
07:44You would have ripped him if he didn't do that.
07:46Well, he should have just not showed his face at all, and then it wouldn't have been a story.
07:49Oh, yeah.
07:49That would have been.
07:49Oh, it wouldn't have been a story.
07:50Right.
07:51You guys would not have brought up that he had the audacity to skip the trip altogether.
07:55He knew what he was doing, and he knew it was going to be a story, him going into the
07:59locker room and watching it by himself.
08:01He did that on purpose.
08:02This was my favorite season of my career.
08:06617 text.
08:06Rich, love you, but you don't have your finger on the pulse of Celtics fans.
08:10JB will be cheering louder than Bill on Brady night.
08:12He won't be booed in the garden.
08:14I think that's a stretch.
08:14You are so wrong.
08:16Here's what's going to happen.
08:17Jalen Brown's going to come out, the place is going to go crazy, and then the minute
08:21the game starts, they are going to boo the snot out of him.
08:24I don't know.
08:24I'd kind of be shocked if they boo him, to be honest.
08:26Oh, they're going to boo him.
08:27Because I do think he is beloved.
08:28They're going to boo him.
08:29I hate that we have to wait until December for this.
08:31This is insane.
08:32January.
08:32Oh, my God.
08:33You've got to wait until January.
08:35That was so...
08:36Man, what...
08:36I can't believe it isn't on the bench.
08:38All right.
