 What's the word y'all? Drew Holiday was traded to the boss of Celtics and I got a lot to talk about. Yes, that was 48 hours ago. Yes, I'm the last man on YouTube to talk about it, but I was away on work in Detroit and I didn't have any equipment, so I'm finally home, so better late than never. Before we start talking about it, I need to plug the fact that these hats that you've been seeing me wear over the last two months in these videos are finally going on sale tomorrow at 5 o'clock Eastern time. It's my birthday. My birthday drop. It's very limited. We dropped the other colorway before, but everybody's like, I can't even eat the black and white. And honestly, the black and white was just created for me. But I was like, if they want it, we got to bring it to them. So tomorrow, 5 o'clock Eastern time. I also want to plug the Kenny Beachham podcast, ladies and gentlemen. We finally have the visual aspect of it. We dropped our first video about the Damian Lilith trade a couple days ago. We're about to drop the next episode to kind of talk about media day in this trade. We're talking about the day that is the Kenny Beachham podcast on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, wherever you can get a podcast, it's there. Last time I checked, I was the seventh biggest basketball podcast in America. And the only people that were beating me was my other podcast through the wire, a Sixers pod, Paul George, the athletic, all the smoking club, Shay, Shay. So shedding sharp, I'm coming for that number one spot, but I can't get the number one spot if y'all are going to go download and watch the episode. So shout out to everybody that's already been supported. But I just need to plug it as much as I can, y'all. All right, let's talk about the trade. Drew Holiday is a Boston Celtic in exchange for Robert Williams, Malcolm Brogdon, two first round picks, one of them being from the Warriors that is heavily protected for 2024. And then another first round pick that's like down in the line, unprotected from the Boston Celtics. And boom, now the Boston Celtics have the best top six rotation in all the basketball. I don't know who they starting lineup can look like. There's a couple of different variations. There's a small ball variation that has Derek White and Drew Holiday going to be probably the best defensive backcourt in all the basketball. It has the Jayce, that's two all NBA players and poor Zingas who had an all star caliber season last year, his first season being completely healthy. And then Al Horford is 37, shot 44% from three last year and was pretty good. That is the top six that you could change at the lineup. Maybe Derek White comes off the bench sometimes and they put the two bigs in the lineup. I don't know, but this trade, in my opinion, is a no-brainer. Now, a couple of days before this, I put together a mock trade on Twitter where I had this exact same trade package going out in exchange for Drew Holiday. And there were some Celtics fans like Kenny. There's a 0% chance we trade Robert Williams in exchange for Drew Holiday and then a day game. And that's exactly what they did. And I understand it, man. When you see a player that you drafted that turned into a player that could make all defensive teams, if he stayed healthy, a player that could be in DPOY conversations when he's healthy, you see him get traded away. You're going to go through all of the stages of grief, especially when you found him diamond in a rough situation. So at first it was the Nio, then it was some anger, it was subarguing. Whatever the stages of grief is, I think some Celtics fans went through all of that. But in my opinion, this is a worthy chance if you are Brad Stevens. Because as good as Robert Williams has been or can be, we all know that he struggles with staying on the floor. Just this last season, just 35 games, and he was relatively healthy. Come playoff time, healthy enough to at least suit up. And in a series that they lost against the Miami Heat, the brother played at the max 25 minutes in game one. And then we saw his minutes grow down and down and down to the point where in this game seven, where, well, I guess a lot of people didn't play because it was out below out, he only ended up playing about 14 total minutes. So the conversations you need to have as a front office when you have Jason Tatum who's a top 10 player in basketball, Jaylen Brown, who just gave all his money and just made an all NBA team. You just traded for poor Zingas. You need to figure out is it worth going all in? And in their mind, it was. Because I couldn't imagine you decided to go against this trade. We're like, nah, that's a little bit too much. We won't rob. And letting Rob's health really determine whether or not we are conference finals team, which they've been able to do almost every single season over the last 100 years, it feels like, or a championship quality team. Robert Williams's health. Do we really want the franchise to be in his hands or his legs or his feet? No. So we're going to go get a guy who has made an all star game this season. Always an all defensive player is a guy that we saw be a point guard on the championship team just a few years ago, even though he struggled shooting the ball in the playoffs. This is Drew Holiday. We're talking about would he rather have Drew Holiday or Robert Williams plain and simple because that Warriors first round pick that you gave up is not valuable. The Warriors will be good and it is heavily protected. The one pick down the line. I mean the way the NBA has changed. You don't really know if that pick is going to be valuable. But again, you have the Jays who are young and maybe not even in their prime just yet. I'm okay with giving up that first round pick. So the end of the day is it would rather have Rob to help have a bench or I'm sorry big man depth or we rather have Drew Holiday in a position of need because we traded away Marcus Smart a couple months ago. This is a no brainer and reality is I keep seeing people said man, they gave up a lot. They gave up a lot. Maybe they did but they were also competing with other team. This is the thing that I don't understand that fans don't understand. Drew Holiday is a commodity across the Association. They were not bidding against themselves. They were bidding against other teams that would like Drew Holiday services and maybe one day we'll figure out what those other teams were or other trade offers were. But you don't throw two first round pitch plus Rob was plus Malcolm Brogdon if there's nobody else really competing for the player. So they wanted to have the best offer and they got that and now we can say for the most part the dust is settled on the Drew Holiday trade. I'm sorry on the Damian Lillitrade and I can say the Portland Trailblazers walk away and say hey we did the best we possibly could. We got a 25 year old to 25 year old centers. One of them being a former first overall pick. We got a slew of draft capital and a lot of them being down the line and we feel good about it. So you know who who feels good but maybe not great. The Milwaukee Bucks. Of course they they're happy with Damian Lillitrade. Damian Lillitrade is that good when they're happy with Damian Lillitrade but probably the last thing they wanted was to see Drew Holiday end up on one of the two teams that they have to go through to win that championship because again we're talking about the best top six in basketball in my personal opinion. Drew Holiday in a playoff series that he saw Damian Lillitrade, granted it was six years ago. Head Damian Lillitrade on lock and I'm not saying that's the case now because Drew Holiday is good if a defender he is. Offense wins at the end of that. We just saw Jimmy Butler give Drew Holiday the work for an entire series and it's not that Drew Holiday played bad defense. Offense just overpowers defense at times. But they have the opportunity to be such a lethal defensive team. The backcourt both being all defensive caliber players. Jalen Brown is a good defender. Maybe not as good as he was maybe three to four years ago with his offensive intake going up but we know he can sit in that chair. And Jason Tatum is one of the better two way forwards in basketball and we're getting poor Zingers was a shot blocker and then Al at 37. I don't know what to expect but if it's anything close to what last season is the defense is there. Now obviously you worry about the depth because you got rid of the Williams sis because Grant Williams went out earlier this off season. Marcus Smart went out so now you're requiring guys like Peyton Pritchard, Sam Houser, Luke Cornette to step up. Maybe Jordan Jarrah step up to play some real regular season minutes. But come post season we all know that a lot of the coaches shorten their rotation to seven to eight and if you're six is as good as theirs is they feel really good. I cannot express to you how excited I am about a potential let's say single game in the regular season all four of those games between Boston and Milwaukee should be bangers. And if we see that in the playoffs, it's ridiculous. The one thing they should worry about a little bit is the big man depth. Obviously again, Al Horford being 37 and Porzingis with his injury history. He already dealt with an injury this off season, but he's back on the court, which is great. That is the one thing that was the one saving grace of having Robert Williams in the back pocket. But again, we mentioned how many games play it's not like he's the savant when it comes to playing a bunch of games. So worst case scenario not going would Porzingis ends up with a nagging injury or Al Horford ends up with a nagging injury. It's just a it's a stretch to kind of feel those minutes. But the goal is to have it from April to June healthy basketball. And if you could do that and you were telling me that you believe that the Boston Celtics are the favorite to win the NBA championship. I can't be mad at you because that roster top six is just that good. This is a team that has been in the conference finals, conference finals, conference finals, one NBA finals appearance, but it felt like they were always missing something. And Drew Holiday might be one of those missing pieces. The best thing about having Drew Holiday, at least in this case, is that the best he's the third option on the best day or the fourth option on a bad day. You know, you're not you're not over taxing Drew Holiday. We're trying to be something that he's not and it could be the piece that makes it just better. We know he's a plug-and-play guy. He doesn't mind if he doesn't have to take a lot. They get to take a lot of shots. He wants to be a winner and that's why when he was asked what teams he's interested in playing in the Boston Celtics were number one on his list because he knows how good they are right now and how much he can provide for that team. Now, defensively, he can match everything that Marcus Smart day last season. Obviously, the impact on the the locker room stuff that Marcus Marbrough. I don't know if he can fill those shoes, but still just a basketball in itself got that back plus some. It's an all-star. Now, he's older. Dave is older. And eventually, you look and say like, hey, when is the time going to come where they start to progress? But again, Drew Holiday just made his first all-star appearance in 10 years. Damian Lillard was an all-NBA player. Like, I don't think this is happening soon. So this, again, is a worthy trade, but it will be interesting to see how long it takes to jail because again, you kind of reformulated a bunch of your roster where like real rotational started pieces are completely gone. How long will it take for Drew Holiday and the Jays to get on the same pace? So you can ask the same thing about Damian and Giannis. And those are one of the things they mentioned in Media Day yesterday. Like, yeah, we're excited and we think we can win it all, but it might take a little bit of time for us to get used to each other. And that's just the reality of basketball. And that reality might determine who ends up winning an eventual series, right? Who can click the fastest in the postseason. These two teams have so many parallels. Now, I understand that Joe Missoula has won NBA season under his belt, but he is a second-year coach while Adrian Griffin is a first-year coach. Both of them have coaching staffs of players or coaches that have been a part of good organizations, been good coaches. Terry Stocks is here. Say it because Sayola is here and so on and so forth. They both have a front-court-ish player, a wing player, and Giannis of Jason Tatum who are widely considered top players of ball. Obviously, Giannis is no lord than the third-best-playing ball, and Jason Tatum is probably teetering on the back end of 10, but these are players that have made all NBA appearances time in and time out. They both have these stretch bigs that can block shots in Porta Zingas and Brooke Lopez. They both have these secondary bucket-getters and Chris Middleton and Jaylen Bryant. Like, the parallels are crazy between these two, and I don't know what I believe to be the better team at this moment. I don't know. I was so heavily on the game trade before Drew Holiday ended up here because the Celtics were already really good. Now, the good thing to say about the bucks over the Celtics is that they only have to incorporate really one piece and that's a big piece of Damian Lillard, but the rest of the team is pretty much intact while the Boston Celtics have to incorporate Porta Zingas and Drew Holiday. So maybe that is a little edge towards the Milwaukee Bucks, but even then, I don't really know. I love this trade for the Boston Celtics because even if it does not work, you can't just say that you didn't try. And I feel like a lot of organizations are afraid to take that chance. This is a worthy chance. You know, Robert Williams can turn out to be an all defensive player. This could be his first fully healthy season and you probably wouldn't look back because your holiday can provide what he can provide. You can't run your organization, your business, your establishment scared. They could have been complacent. Hey, we got the Jays. And the Jays are good enough to make it to the conference finals every year. But that's not what Brad Stevens is doing. He would take the risk of getting a 33-year-old Drew Holiday. Take the risk of giving up a 25-year-old promising player because the ceiling on one team seems higher. Even if that also means the floor is lower. They still have a ton of second round picks that they can use to establish some depth later down the season. But I'm super excited about this. And for Portland, they also get a really good gray because they still have a chance to trade Malcolm Brogdon for a bunch of seconds or a lot of protective firsts or whatever it may be. And they can look at themselves in the mirror and say, hey, we traded away one of the best players in our franchise history. And we got back things that we value. A lot of these big-time player moves like, oh, can they get a 21-year-old player who might be a superstar someday? Can they get Shay Gildes Alexander plus a bunch of draft capital? As you see, the other superstar trades over the years, that's not really the case all the time. Having a rant was like McKell Bridges and Cam Johnson. And a lot of people didn't expect McKell Bridges on the second half of the season to turn to an all-star caliber player and then they got the draft capital. On the surface level, the Rudy Gaubert trade was a Rudy Gaubert for a bunch of draft capital. Nobody expected Walker Kessler to turn into what he is, but that's what it ended up being. And we don't know what Deandra Aiden could look like with a new establishment. And Media Day, he looked amazing. He looked like he's about to have a ton of fun. Does fun equal good? I don't know. But I'm excited that we're here. Go watch, listen to the Kenny Beecham podcast because I got so much more to say, but we need more time.