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Price and coverage match limited by state law. Alrighty, let's go out to a crazy Boston Celtic fan and he works obviously on the Rich Eisen show. That is Chris Brockman kind enough to join us right now for a few minutes as we'll get the Celtic fan perspective on this one. Chris, great to see you. How you been my man? Zach, what's up buddy? Thanks for having me. How's everything? Everything's been great. So kind of take me through how you're feeling with the Celtics team because this is a Celtic squad that all year they've been damn great, but they haven't got the national praise because we know this is championship or bust for banner 18 for the squad.

You know, it's hilarious and I heard you the last couple of minutes as I was getting checked in. You seem like you're the only reasonable member of the media that I've been hearing and reading for the last couple of, well last week I guess while we waited forever for these finals to kick off. Has any, has everyone just like only started watching basketball in the last six weeks?

I'm so confused. This Celtics team has been historically great, historically dominant since the season started. I'm talking since late October, they've won five out of six games for the whole season. And now Dallas makes a couple of moves.

Luca hits a cool step back and is cursing it. Rudy go bear on a fan sitting courtside. And now everyone's like, Oh my God, Mavericks and six.

What are we doing? I look, and I understand that I'm a Homer. I am an irrational Boston fan. Just what we need more in the media is what we like to call you guys. Everyone calls a mass soul. I totally get it. And I don't begrudge anyone, anyone for labeling us as such, but if they watch this team point, clearly they have not, but you know what they are, Chris, Chris, this is what they are.

They're the red hairs and they're the bills. No, one's going to praise them for what they did in the regular season. No, one's going to praise them for this easy ass road that they've had, uh, in the post season so far it's go time for this group. And we're going to see if Tatum and Brown can get it done. It's totally go time. And everyone who was saying, break up the J's for the last couple of years. Look, uh, was it bam out of bios block on Tatum in the bubble, uh, blowing a two, one lead in the finals against the warriors. Totally understand, totally valid, but now's the time. Look, everyone had to go through obstacles before they won a championship.

Okay. We saw it with every great superstar across the board, across the history of the league. And now is the J's time. And you're going to see it. I heard you say Celtics and six.

Oh, come on, have some cojones. You may as well just go Celtic sweep. If you're going to go Celtics gentlemen, gentlemen, I'm a gentleman. I'm going to play golf here in a minute. That's a gentleman's game. I'm feeling gentlemanly today. You're not a gentleman. You're friends with Andrew Perloff.

You can't be a gentleman. Hey, that's a great point. That's a great point. Look, I think it's going to be, I love Luca as a player. Uh, I've actually really enjoyed watching Kyrie, the basketball player this year. There's been no off the court drama, no social media drama with him.

It's been really kind of refreshing. Like that guy we saw with the calves who was so great, you know, dropping 40 in the finals, hitting the game winning shot. It's been awesome to see him play, but are those two guys collectively better than the Celtics team top to bottom?

Absolutely not. All we need is 15 to 20 minutes of Kristaps Porzingis. He's going to spread the floor.

He's going to be disruptive around the rim. Let the J's and Derek white and, and drew and Pritchard off the bench and big Al, let them do their thing. And I, I don't think this is going to be a close series.

Look, that could come back to bite me. I'll be on a parade of gas bags on other shows and that's totally fine, but the Celtics have been the best team all season long. They've been the best team in the playoffs and they're going to be the best team in the finals to see the other side of your Chris Brockman. If the Celtics were to lose this series, why is it? What concerns you the most as someone that's even very confident heading into the series?

Yeah. So just look at the two games that the Celtics lost in the playoffs and there's your blueprint. It's a horrific night from shooting on the outside on behalf of the Celtics and it's the opponents. It's the Dallas Mavericks having a historically great shooting night. It's PJ Washington hitting six of eight from downtown and suddenly scoring 28 points. It's Derek lively.

It's Derek Jones. It's Cleeba having a sensational, just being those X factors that they have to be for Dallas to win. It's not Dallas.

It's not Luca going nuclear. It's not, it's not Kyrie going for, you know, 35. And I, I kind of expect that actually, like you think about it, Dallas has to score what, 120 points to beat the Celtics in every game. The Celtics offense is great. Their point differential is great.

Their defense is great. We know how great Dallas's defense has been in the postseason, but they need everybody else to really elevate their games to levels that have never been seen from them. And they need Boston to shoot eight from 38 from three.

And to just really have, you really think Boston is going to have four bad nights from three point land in this series seems unlikely to me. Chris Brockman, we know the fans can't stand Kyrie. They have every reason to despise him in Boston. How is that storyline you think going to play out early on in this series? Kyrie kind of downplayed it the other day.

You know, I don't know if it will get to him like it has in years past. What are your thoughts on that storyline being the Bostonian? I kind of feel like I don't love this storyline. I know it's something nationally people want to talk about, but look, it's not like the Celtics, the Celtics team, these guys love them. Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, they love Kyrie. They, they look at him as an older brother, but we've played Kyrie in the past before sweat Brooklyn, a couple of years ago.

So this is kind of a, a kind of a non story for me, but I know the national media loves it because they're not kind of following day to day. Look, our fans going to boo the ever loving S out of him when he touches the ball, probably for all of game one tonight. Yeah, I would imagine so. But then hopefully after that, we can just kind of move on. I love what Kyrie said earlier this week, he really squashed it. And you can kind of see how he's matured. He's moved on, he's in a better place in his life. And whereas in the past, he's kind of fanned the flames a little bit and kind of kept this going.

That led to the bottle throwing incident a couple years ago. And some of the things that has been said, and I really kind of credit him for for downplaying all of this. Hopefully the fans and the rest of the media kind of take that and take his guidance there and kind of do the same. I expect it to be a little bit of a big deal, maybe tonight, but after that, not so much. Well, last thing I'll ask you, Chris Brockman, because we thought we were going to be talking all about the NBA finals today on this show. And then the Danny Hurley story drops and it's the biggest story.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's the biggest story in basketball as you got an NBA finals game. Good.

I tip off tonight. But the interesting dynamic is ESPN has this game. We thought it was going to be JJ Redick being the coach. Now, it won't definitely be Hurley because he could say no and go back to UConn. You've been in the sports media world for a long time. Does Mike Breen bring it up in the broadcast tonight to JJ Redick and Doris Burke? Very interesting question. Initially, I would have said, how can you not? But that's really not part of the storylines tonight.

Even though, look, I don't know. Sham said like two days ago that they were focused on JJ. And then the watch comes out and says, now they're just doing due diligence. And now JJ Redick is a due diligence interview, even though he's got a podcast with LeBron. Does he mention it tonight?

What can I get for odds on that? Is that a plus number that he does? I would think it's a plus number. I think they're going to try to avoid this story, but I think it'd be broadcasting malpractice if they don't mention it. Maybe.

Yeah, I kind of, I kind of agree with you there. Maybe they make a joke. Maybe Doris makes a joke about it. That would be kind of the way to go. I think you kind of like, ha ha laugh. Let me throw one back your way.

We had a caller on the show call in and ask me this. Say the Celtics don't win the title. And Danny Hurley, should he wait to see if the Celtics fire Joe Mazzola?

Well, that's a good question. Maybe become the Boston coach. I think there's a 0% chance that Joe Mazzola isn't coaching the Celtics next year.

That's what I said. And then thing is like, well, I don't like the Lakers, but they're not where the Celtics are right now. They're not ready to win a championship.

They're kind of retool. I'd rather the Celtics job. You don't have to move that far.

Much, much better job. You don't have to move. And we're tired. We're ready to win a title right now. He is Chris Brockman. Of course you can catch him on the rich eyes and show Chris hit him straight. All right, my friend. Thanks Zach. Love you guys.

Go seize. There you go. Chris Brockman joining us whenever you need a Boston perspective. He's going Celtics and five that's bad. That is some prediction. I give him credit for it.

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