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Ep. 37 1/2 - Boston’s Price: The Jalen Brown Trade, Color, Control, and Commerce · 4DAFAM

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  All right, y'all. Apparently we have gone over and run out of time,
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  but we figured this might be something that we would run into,
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  especially on topics as deep as they are today.
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  And we really wanted to touch on the 250 thing and get a lot of things off of
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  our chest. So this is a pseudo part two.
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  And this is going to be short, but it's only going to consist of the closing
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  monologue and our outro.
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  So with that being said, KG, the floor is yours.
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  All right. So based on everything we talked about today, this closing monologue
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  is nothing to do with what we just talked. Okay, cool.
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  So I'm saying this with confidence in some of the things that I'm about to say
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  as a light-skinned black man who understands that at some points throughout
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  history, I had more opportunity.
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  I would have had more opportunities than a dark-skinned black man.
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  With that being said, the Celtics shipping Jalen Brown out of Philly for Paul
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  George is a blockbuster on paper.
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  If you understand the history of Boston, it's just business as usual.
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  I don't have a horse in this race, but as a light-skinned man myself,
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  let's just call a spade a spade.
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  Boston did the most Boston thing ever. They looked at two superstars and chose
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  the lighter skin, more easily packaged, corporate marketable player in Jason Tatum.
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  They put all their faith in a guy who, let's be honest, if we're being real,
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  hasn't been a bit better than Jalen his entire career.
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  Statistics show that. Lest we forget, Tatum was down for the majority of the
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  year with a torn Achilles.
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  Who put the city on his back? Jalen Brown. He carried,
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  them to a 56-win season, finished sixth in MVP voting, and poured his soul into
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  that franchise for 10 years, including bringing them banner number 18 as the
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  finals MVP. Let me say that again.
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  He was the finals MVP.
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  Jalen's crime in Boston was never his game.
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  Instead, he's highly intelligent, fiercely independent, and completely outspoken.
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  He doesn't play the safe, packaged media game. He talks directly to the people on his own streams.
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  He challenges the status quo and refuses to be a sanitized product.
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  History tells us that when a dominant, intelligent black athlete refuses to
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  stay in the box the front office builds for him, they get labeled difficult,
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  or too smart for their own good.
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  Boston packed him up because they couldn't control the narrative.
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  They chose a comfortable brand over the man who actually won them their last ring.
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  Philly, you just inherited a hungry, disrespected champion. Boston,
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  you just proved once again who you are.
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  Didn't they do the same thing to Bill Russell? Mm-hmm. Even though he won them,
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  what, seven championships? Eleven.
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  Eleven championships? Two or three as a coach, if I'm not mistaken.
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  And they treated him shady because of the color of his skin?
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  I know some people listening to this going, man, come on, y'all reach.
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  OK, that's fine. You can feel that way based on what I just said.
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  But if you look up the history of that franchise, even Red Arbac had his flaws like crazy.
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  You shipped Jalen Brown away. Well, the whole Lakers Boston rivalry in the 80s,
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  had nothing to do with basketball.
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  It had everything to do with a predominantly white Boston.
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  Celtics team and their two star players being Larry Bird and Kevin McHale versus
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  the Lakers, who were predominantly black team and their two star players being the Muslim,
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  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
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  and Magic Johnson.
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  And the young outspoken black kid that didn't take shit from nobody.
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  He smiled a lot, but people forget Magic did not take shit from nobody.
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  Clearly, there was a racial component to the Boston-LA rivalry.
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  They even tried to make Larry Bird, which by the way, for those who don't know.
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  He said he didn't give a shit about none of that.
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  Larry Bird is my second favorite player of all time. Always has been, always will be.
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  He didn't want the whole Isaiah Thomas thing. Right. Well, they got him and
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  Isaiah sitting next to each other talking about it. Larry Bird's like,
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  yo, I ain't got no problem with this dude. When we playing basketball. Right.
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  Magic Johnson ate at Larry Bird's parents' house, a mother's house.
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  Right. You know what I mean? Right.
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  Right. That was society. Yes. Projecting their racial biases onto sports,
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  which is exactly what they're doing with Caitlin Clark.
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  Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And you know what? I'm glad you brought that up
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  because for those that are listening, yes, we live in Indianapolis.
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  We've been fever fans. We've talked about the fever for years.
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  Tameka Kitchens, one of the greatest. My two favorite WNBA players,
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  I know yours are probably different.
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  Tameka Kitchens is up there. Maya Moore.
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  But if we go back and look at some of the great athletes of the past.
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  Cynthia Cooper, by the way, is Maya. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  Cynthia Cooper was that man.
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  But it's the same thing. Larry Bird didn't speak up because he didn't give a shit.
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  Caitlyn Clark just said something like two days ago.
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  I don't expect her. I don't also old girl that put her fist in her throat.
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  Is it Thompson? Alyssa Thompson? Yeah, Alyssa Thompson.
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  Now, first and foremost, you were wrong.
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  You were. You were wrong. However. To get death threats. To get death threats.
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  Yeah, she pissed me off. So I put my fist in her throat. I don't like her.
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  And guess what she ain't supposed to like that she don't play on her team right.
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  She ain't supposed to lie. Right. But yeah, putting a fist in the throat.
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  Yeah, I'd have probably got to start swinging. You'd have just got to beat me
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  up. She got suspended, though. Yeah, she got suspended.
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  But death threats. Death threats.
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  Right. Like, this is a lady who probably still goes out, runs her own errands,
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  out and about with the community, and now she got to look over her shoulder.
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  Right. It's crazy. But you know what's even crazier?
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  The fact that we just kind of shrugged our shoulders. You know why?
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  Because those death threats are coming from people that live within 20 miles
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  of where we're sitting right now.
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  Facts. Facts, bro.
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  Facts. We know how some. And I understand the fever is not going to come out
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  and say, well, Central Indiana has a history of being racist.
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  But they do. But they do. Yeah. But they do.
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  Klan capital of the world. Right. Wasn't surprising to me at all to see those
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  people giving her those death threats. Yep.
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  All right, y'all. We're going to leave episode 37. right there.
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