Great Boston Celtics centric Lowe Post ft. Jackie MacMullan

[shut_the_gate]

Definitely worth a listen if you have a free hour or so. They talk about 80's Celtics stories, 08 Celtics team, Ray Allen's OCD and other fun facts from Jackie's journalism history

[Big333223]

MacMullan on the Kyrie trade:

That was a great trade. As much as I appreciate what Isaiah did for the city and everything he did, you and I both know if you put them side-by-side any GM would take Kyrie Irving over Isaiah Thomas. And that's no disrespect to Isaiah Thomas, who had an amazing year, and did some incredible things but nobody would choose him, head for head - and, of course, Cleveland didn't because they ended up getting a very high draft pick and Jae Crowder for him as well. I would do that deal 10 time our of 10 if I'm the Celtics.

[bdm860]

Listening to it now, about a half hour in and it's definitely great.

http://www.espn.com/espnradio/play?id=20696691

I liked this tidbit about Rondo, Ray, and KG:

Summarizing Jackie Mac:
Rondo was a young guy, wanted to be good and wanted to learn, and he latched on to Ray for a bit, but then they had some issues.  Some of it was on the court and some of it was off the court.  So what happened later was Rondo started following around Garnett instead, and then he started blowing off the media, then he got the edge.

Summarizing Lowe:
When Rondo was a star, if you got league officials together off the record, they would say we're not happy that Rondo and KG have gotten close, because KG has made him a mini-KG and it makes things difficult for the league.

A couple little stories about KG trying to bully Jackie Mac too.

[The One]

KG was a bully apparently.

[Donoghus]

KG was a bully apparently.

Would that really surprise anyone?

[JSD]

Oh, and Jackie has 6 toes on her left foot.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Oh, and Jackie has 6 toes on her left foot.

A foot fetishist's dream, that Jackie Mac. 

[manl_lui]

KG was a bully apparently.

Would that really surprise anyone?

**Surprise** lol

[Beat LA]

Oh, and Jackie has 6 toes on her left foot.

A foot fetishist's dream, that Jackie Mac.

Come on, man, I just had something to eat.

Listening to it now, about a half hour in and it's definitely great.

http://www.espn.com/espnradio/play?id=20696691

I liked this tidbit about Rondo, Ray, and KG:

Summarizing Jackie Mac:
Rondo was a young guy, wanted to be good and wanted to learn, and he latched on to Ray for a bit, but then they had some issues.  Some of it was on the court and some of it was off the court.  So what happened later was Rondo started following around Garnett instead, and then he started blowing off the media, then he got the edge.

Summarizing Lowe:
When Rondo was a star, if you got league officials together off the record, they would say we're not happy that Rondo and KG have gotten close, because KG has made him a mini-KG and it makes things difficult for the league.

A couple little stories about KG trying to bully Jackie Mac too.

Honestly, who cares what she has to say regarding Rondo?  She's had an almost Eddie20 to Triboy/rollie mass vendetta against him for years now because, why, he wouldn't give her an interview one time?  It's really quite childish on her part, imo, and her "expose" on Rondo's "birthday gate" was truly journalism at its finest , making Rondo sound like he was Dennis Rodman or something.  Oh no, a guy wanted to celebrate his birthday in LA, iirc, and didn't check with Ainge or Stevens?!  What a cancer! She, Brad, and Danny acted like a bunch of three-year-olds during that episode, imo. 

Plus, I came across Shaq's 2011 autobiography Shaq Uncut: My Story in Barnes and Noble once and, naturally, looked for the parts about his time with the Celtics as well as the year before and I came across this little gem:

"The Celtics were just smarter.  They knocked us out of the 2010 Eastern Conference Finals and they did a great job of loading up."



Yeah . I realize that she's not the editor, but she covered those teams and the book wasn't too far removed from that memorable series.  Idk, I guess that I just expect better, and more, from someone who received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame .

[IDreamCeltics]

MacMullan on the Kyrie trade:

That was a great trade. As much as I appreciate what Isaiah did for the city and everything he did, you and I both know if you put them side-by-side any GM would take Kyrie Irving over Isaiah Thomas. And that's no disrespect to Isaiah Thomas, who had an amazing year, and did some incredible things but nobody would choose him, head for head - and, of course, Cleveland didn't because they ended up getting a very high draft pick and Jae Crowder for him as well. I would do that deal 10 time our of 10 if I'm the Celtics.

Right, but upto this point, every GM who ever passed on Thomas in the draft, let him walk in Free Agency, or traded him has looked like a complete fool.  The only thing we know for sure about IT is that NBA GM's have yet to figure out how to accurately evaluate him.

Basketball skill wise the two players are extremely close it's all the intangibles that we don't know anything about with Kyrie.