VanVleet INJURED | Is there a TRADE for Celtics and Rockets possible?

VanVleet INJURED | Is there a TRADE for Celtics and Rockets possible?

Does the Fred Van Vleet injury open up an opportunity to trade Anthony Simons? Plus, I get an inside look at NBA officiating. It’s all right now on the Lockown Celtics podcast. Uh-huh. Yuck. Be ready. It’s the season. Who else could it be? What they going to say now? Screaming like JT Cares. We kept the madness every game, every practice. Prime time Deon D White on the sideline rece how we started raising business how we finish locked on selfish spot home of the winners baby welcome back to the lockdown self podcast right we’re here on the lockdown podcast network where is your team every day your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them Monday through Friday for free right here on this podcast that is available everywhere podcast exists it’s on YouTube get into the comment section share your thoughts with your fellow everydayers people who are with me every Monday through Friday plus when the regular season starts. Bonus podcasts when they play every day. So, uh, check that out. I’m John Carales, by the way. I’m the host of this show covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal. Been doing a version of this job for about 20 years now. I’ve also written a couple of books about the Boston Celtics. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. Make your first $5 bet if you’re a new customer, and if you win, you get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. So check that out uh at fanduel.com. Uh a couple different topics today. Later on we’ll talk about Jaylen Brown talk. You know he’s on his Twitch. He’s he’s a streamer now. He’s all over the place. Interesting dynamic here for Jaylen. I’ll talk about that in the third segment. In the second segment I’ll I’ll talk about the uh the reason why I’m on the road before the season starts. I I got an inside look at NBA officiating at their uh annual camp. Right. there. There’s a training camp opening up for all of these teams. There’s a referee camp that opens up ahead of the season, 5-day intense camp that uh I got to uh be a part of for a day. Uh that’s in the second segment. But let’s just start with the big news in the NBA, which is Fred Van Vleet’s uh injury. This is an incredible offseason. Honestly, I I’ve never seen anything like this. We always talk about like, oh god, I don’t want this guy to play in international competition. and he’s going to get hurt this and that. Guys have been getting hurt in their offseason workouts, their their pre-amp workouts, their just on their own. Fred Van Lee tore his ACL just in a regular old workout. So, um we’ve seen I don’t know five, six injury. Guys have had surgery. Uh this this has been an incredible pre-season pre-season for guys getting hurt getting ready for the season. I don’t know what to make of it. It’s just probably just more of a quirk than anything, but it’s still kind of wild to see all of these injuries happening in controlled situations. So, you don’t you never know when a guy’s going to get hurt. Vanley tore his ACL, which puts the Houston Rockets in a in a jam. And listen, go listen to Lockdown Rockets to see exactly, you know, the the um Aman Thompson, Reed Shepard, you know, they’re going to rely on those guys. But a thing that’s come up now, it’s like, well, hey, we’ve got an extra guard here in Boston. Is there anything the Celtics can do to send Anthony Simons or somebody over to Houston and getting, you know, look, you don’t root for injuries, but they happen. This is the situation that Houston is in. What do the Celtics do? Can they take advantage of the situation? I know it sounds gross, but this is like you you wish the guy well. Uh, again, you never root for any injuries, but people come up say, “Hey, all right. Well, here here’s the situation.” Uh, and the short answer is no. The Celtics are not going to get involved uh right away in this because the Rockets are hardcapped at the First Apron. Not only that, and this is the the real difficult part about team building in this new era. We talk about second apron and all of that, but there are first aprons, right? you know, getting Kevin Durant and and some of the moves they’ve made in the offseason, hard cap them at the first apron and have only given them $1.25 million of room before you reach that hard cap. And when we say hard cap, they are they cannot under any circumstances surpass that. Not an injury, not nothing. Like this is this is the real danger of making certain moves under this new collective bargaining agreement. The the Rockets thought like, hey, we’re set. We’ve got everything. We we can we can hardcap ourselves at the First Apron. It’s okay because we we’ve got our team and you just hope for the best, right? and you know that an injury is something you’d have to figure out uh if if you get to that point. Well, that injury came in the middle of September, not November, December or anything like that. And it really has kind of like handcuffed the Rockets. They they can’t go and sign they can’t even sign like a Markeel Fools. can’t even sign a Ben Simmons because that minimum contract takes them beyond that hard cap. You just you can’t be a penny over that. So, they aren’t signing one of the available guards the trades. So, that that limits who they can trade and a lot of these guys that might be moved aren’t eligible to be moved until December 15th. So that puts them in a buy. This is this is why everybody’s talking about Aman Thompson and Reed Shepard and and and those guys because the the Rockets don’t have any other options. This is going to be who they go to. Um they’re going to have to find their their answer in house. So, the Celtics can’t, you know, I’m sure the Rockets would love to be like, “Hey, you we can talk about Anthony Simons.” Sure. But that won’t happen until the middle of December. By then, we might know if any of the stop gap measures are actually good. And by then, other things might have happened. And you just don’t know what the the market’s going to look like in, you know, the middle of December or what the Rockets are going to look like. If you Yeah, I’m not going to say that losing Fred Van Vleet is going to make them fall apart. But that’s a it’s a pretty major piece and and who knows? Who knows? May May maybe they’re fine. Maybe they’re just fine. They go, “Oh, no. You know, we we can we can handle this. We’re good.” So, any thought of the the Celtics getting involved now and being like, “Hey, we got Anthony Simons here for you.” And maybe taking advantage of giving them a player of need. They they’re in a win now situation. And I understand the mentality. Absolutely. I mean, it it makes perfect sense. They want to win now. The Celtics aren’t necessarily in a win now situation. So, why wouldn’t you think to to make that move? The Rockets just can’t. They can’t. They’re they’re stuck for the next few months. They have no choice but to see if any of these internal candidates are going to be answers for what they’re looking for. But I think it highlights the bigger picture of how willing are teams going to be to do things that hardcap them at certain levels. And you know there’s uh you know you offer the full foot full midlevel exception to somebody and that hardcaps you at the first apron. Now some teams might say we’re not even close so it doesn’t matter. Some teams might like the Rockets say we’re close but we don’t care. This is our best chance. But I think we’re starting to see these little things that will give teams pause to do some of these big things and and spend their money. And I think that’s exactly what the league wanted. The league wanted teams to be cautious about spending their money. There was never going to be an actual hard cap of whatever whatever number even at the second apron, but they could and they did implement these hard cap triggers to, you know, if you give the players certain things in other spots of the CBA, these triggers made it in and it it’s not a fullon hard cap, but it is making teams like it is hard capping teams for at least a year here, a year there. So, I think that we’re we’re really starting to get into the meat of like, oh man, maybe we don’t want to do these certain things and it is going to hold some of the spending down. And that’s kind of what the league has always been looking for, holding the spending down so teams aren’t going way way or specific teams aren’t going way way over. And yeah, great. They’re taxpayers, but they want everybody to control their spending, be in a certain area. I think I’ve said this before on the podcast, but I think what’s going to end up happening ultimately when this all we get to the end of the figuring out process and we just get into the mundane nitty-gritty. We’ve been in the CBA for a long time and I think everybody settles somewhere in this middle ground where you have a couple of teams, two, three teams that are bad and rebuilding and are going to be at the low end and a couple of teams are like, “Okay, this is our time to go for it.” and you had a couple of second apron teams, but I think most teams are going to hover right around this spot where Houston is. And hard cap or not, they’re not going to want to go over that uh for a variety of reasons. So, uh I I I think this is just the beginning. But we’ll save that for bigger talk, lockdown NBA talk or whatever. Uh, but the Celtics cannot get into the Fred Van Vleet uh, solution business, at least not until the middle of December. And who knows what it’s going to be at that point. All right, let’s come back with the NBA officials camp. I got an inside look at NBA officiating, what what they’re ramping up to do. Uh, really enlightening stuff. Uh, that’s coming up next. Today’s show is brought to you by Monarch Money. There’s a good chance that you have a bunch of investments, especially if you’re a grownup like me, and you probably can’t name all of the places where your money is off the top of your head. Uh, you need one place, one centralized location, and Monarch Money is going to help you do that. You don’t want to leave money on the table because you don’t have your full financial picture. Monarch Money has an easy to use interface. Uh, you can use it on your laptop or your phone. It’s built for people like you with busy lives. If you’ve put off organizing your finances, Monarch can do the heavy lifting for you. You just take one moment to link all your accounts. You can get those clear data visuals. 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When the season starts, we will be uh covering all of the games. Uh, but until then, we’re just covering the big stories in the league. The Fred Van Vleet injury is going to be big. That’s part of the lockdown NBA and Lockdown NBA game night. Two podcasts on the same feed. Wherever you found this one, uh, I was, and you know, I mentioned I was, you know, I’m podcasting from hotels right now because I’ve gone to New York uh, for the NBA’s uh, officiate officiating camp. like they they take 5 days in New York all the officials uh some prospective officials. It’s it’s a lot of people. Uh they they spend five days pouring through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of plays and points of emphasis and things that you know it it’s kind of an incredible detailed view and and if you’re a regular listener, you know that I’m not I don’t harp on officiating. I I tend to get away stay away from that knowing that some you know obviously officials impact plays but the when you see the depth of everything that they are looking at uh from their positioning on the floor, how they interact with one another, what their responsibilities are. Uh they have very specific ways to watch the game and you know you you see like they showed how you get into like a blown call and you know specific plays that you know high-profile plays where they say well the referee wasn’t looking you know at where he was supposed to look and if he was looking where he was supposed to look he wouldn’t have missed this call and these types of things are like very very enlightening. So, we got a little look at their points of emphasis. So, we’re going to start seeing there’s a couple of things that I think are interesting. One is you’re going to see uh a lot of calls being made after the ball is released. So, there’s a very well-known rule like where the it’s called the high- five rule where once you release the ball, guys have just been able to like slap the the shooter’s hand and be like, “It’s not really a foul because the ball is released. This doesn’t impact the play.” And guys have started to like take advantage of that, really push the envelope and initiate contact like the ball is gone and they’ll initiate contact just to send messages to that shooter being like, “Hey, every time you shoot the ball, I’m going to hear I’m going to be here to slap you on the wrist.” So if you’re sick of getting slapped on the wrist, don’t shoot the ball. You know, those types of things. And the they’re going to start calling that now. anything that’s a little unnatural, any of those kind of things. So, you’re going to see a lot more fouls on jump shots, which is going to be interesting because the Celtics are going to be a very jump shot heavy team. And I wonder like early on in the season if this point of emphasis is going to be something the Celtics can benefit from. Uh, and it’s is a little quirk. It’s a little thing and it’s not going to last forever because once once those calls start happening, guys will get used to how the game is being called and those calls will start to go away. But for a jump shooting team still trying to figure things out, you know, I’ve talked about how tough the early part of the schedule is. If there’s anything like that that can give the Celtics a couple extra free throws, two, four, six extra free throws depending on the game, maybe a couple of these games swing on a call that that we weren’t used to seeing. So uh and there are other points of emphasis that at some point it’s going to be you know put out publicly like these are the things that we’re looking at and they do a very good job of explaining everything. Um, I asked them specifically about technical files because emphasis is on like the rules and the you know there are there’s guidance for technical files and there’s certain things that are you know automatic triggers and you know you think about an automatic trigger for a technical file and you get that Jason Tatum wave off and that’s always been like an automatic tech. I think the message that I got here is not necessarily specifically for the wave off, the Jason Tatum wave off, but they are the officials are going to get a little bit more leeway this year that some of these things and I think I think the Tatum kind of wave off is going to be in that mix. they’re gonna have a little bit more leeway to let guys kind of blow off a little steam. And so Tatum is like he’s never been in danger of a suspension. Uh he knows how how much how much he can get away with. And you know, he might be pushing 14 15 texts anyway, no matter what. If he wants to make a point, he’ll make his point. Uh so he might save a couple of technical file fines, which are I forget what they are, a few thousand dollars or whatever. Nothing. nothing of any consequence to Jason Tatum. Uh so a couple of those wave offs might might get let go. Uh but I’m sure he can earn attack somewhere else along the way. So um but I think there there’s going to be um I think the league is trying to just first of all just make things a little bit more equitable. just treat players maybe a little bit more kind of evenly. So, we might see some guys get texts that don’t normally uh or or some behavior that was kind of like tolerated might get a little and then we might see some of the the automatic triggers that used to be a tech kind of be like you get a little bit so a little bit of leeway I should say. So, I think that’s going to be um I think that’s going to be an important part of now obviously Tatum is uh out for most of the season, if not all of the season, but I think it’s going to be an important part of officiating him moving forward. And the last thing that it seems like that I I think they’re going to try to do is just speed up what’s called like the administration of the game, which means free throws. I’m very curious to see and this was not addressed specifically uh but like the Giannis and Tentacmpo taking 10 seconds to mimic his shot like and they just wait like I think they’re going to like from what I understand they might start like just say hey here’s the ball shoot it and you got 10 seconds to shoot it. So like Giannis has to figure that part out. Um, but they’re not going to they’re not going to like sit around and wait to see if you know a team’s going to challenge anything. You know those moments where Al Horford is always like inbound the ball. I’m here. I’m here. I’m ready. I’m ready. I think those moments are actually going to move to what Al Horford wants to do. Like those those are just going to become inbounded. You know, they’re they’re not going to sit around and wait for challenges and stuff. So, I thought the the officiating stuff was super interesting. Um, the camera stuff. They have like a ton of new cameras, high-speed cameras that are going to be able to I think eventually you’re going to start seeing in the broadcasts, not quite like the Hawkeye tennis stuff, but you’re going to start to see like on goends, you’re going to see like visualizations during the broadcast of the ball like coming down. So, it is actually it is going to look a little bit like the Hawkeye-ish stuff. And they’re going to use some of that technology, that same technology, but uh a shot on the way down, like did the ball pass its apex, and you’re going to actually see a visualization of that on broadcasts, and I think that’s going to be like a cool little element to that. Um, and the league is eventually going to be working towards a lot more of that automation, you know, um, out- of-bounds calls, goalending calls. They’re going to be able to I don’t know how they’re going to do it, but they’re, you know, the way it was characterized to us was within like three to five years. is still a ways off, but they’re going to be they’re they’re hopefully going to be able to, you know, all of those offensive goalending calls that they miss the the or the goalending where the ball hits the backboard, uh where where the refs miss those a ton, like those are those are calls are going to be left up to the automation at some point. So, uh which will free up the officials to actually make the calls on the floor and focus on that stuff. they don’t have to follow the trajectory of the ball or whatever that that system will take care of that. So, the way the games officiate is going to change over time. Um, so I I thought it was really cool. Uh, and as the season progresses, I hope to apply some of like the little nuance stuff that makes for a crappy podcast, but is good for like explaining why certain calls were made. I hope to apply that to some of the stuff that we’re going to be talking about here over the course of the season. Why a call was made or missed or whatever. So hopefully my little day at officiating camp will uh benefit the podcast and your knowledge uh during the during the season this season and moving forward. So uh very cool of the NBA to to do that. I was very excited about that. Uh it’s going to wrap up the show with Jaylen Brown on his Twitch stream. 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First of all, cool to see him out there helping uh Bill Nye getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jaylen’s having his himself a nice little off season where, you know, he’s been around Boston schools. He’s he’s giving back to the community in a big way, which is really cool to see. uh he’s been, I think, more out there. I don’t know if this is, you know, part of him evolving as a player, as a person. I haven’t seen him streaming as much as he is now. He’s he’s kind of doing kind of I don’t know. He He’s always been a more I think private type of person, uh it seems. And now he’s kind of putting himself out there, which is super interesting to see. Uh so he was on Twitch uh and he was first of all he was calling uh people to see who would pick up. He didn’t have he had he has a new number so no one picked up. They didn’t recognize his number. Eventually he got through to Payton Pritchard which was cool. Uh but he said quote half the team is gone. I wish them the best. I appreciate them. They were great teammates. Uh but it’s a new era. Everything has kind of changed and shifted. Sticking with his energy has shifted thing. He continues to say that and yeah. Okay. Sure. Um, and I thought it was interesting because I was just asked a question in the yesterday’s mailbag about is this a new chapter, a new story, and you know, Jaylen’s looking at this as a new era because a few teammates are are gone. U, which I disagree with. As I said yesterday, I still think that Jaylen and Jason are the main characters and this is just an interesting kind of like twist to like the nearly end of their story. Uh, but I still think it’s the same story just with some new characters being involved uh at the end, right? Sometimes like think of Shaw Shank Redemption when uh they brought in that guy. Yeah, I forget what the the kid’s name was uh that couldn’t read and teaches him to read, but they ended up shooting him as part of the the plot. You needed to get Andy frustrated so he can finally escape. So, you bring in a new character and I think some of these are like new characters. So, uh, but it was interesting to hear him talk about this new era and and I think I think for Jaylen like this this is part of his new era. It’s very interesting for him to say it that way because to me it’s, you know, Jaylen is taking this turn, right? This is his last season in his 20s in the NBA. So, next season, the 26th, 27th, he’s going to be 30. And that that’s a big turning point in a player’s career. Even though at 30 you can still do a lot of the same stuff that you were doing at 27. It’s not like you can noticeably lose a step at 30. Uh but that three as that first number in your age at in the NBA level, that’s we’re we’re hitting retirement age, right? You you retire at 30 something. Now Jaylen is an elite player. He’s probably not going to retire until he’s, you know, 36, 37, 38 potentially depending on how he his career progresses and what he wants to do. But 30 something is going to is your retirement age unless you’re LeBron, right? Very select few get that four in their at the beginning beginning of their age. So, it is a beginning of a new era for Jaylen. And not only is he leading this team, but this is a whole new potential chapter in his like you have three specific very specific kind of chapters in a player’s life. You got the young proving yourself kind of, you know, still trying to earn that big contract, still trying to prove that you’re an NBA, you know, player or an NBA star or whatever. Then you have like your prime, which Jaylen is firmly in. And it’s like, let’s rock, right? You’re doing things that you never thought that you could do before. You’re innovating your game. Jaylen’s developed that step through move, which is really good. You’re you’re really kind of like exploring the studio space, so to speak. And then you get your 30s, that next stage of like, you know, starting at I don’t know, like 32ish. It’s like, all right, we start talking about you in a different way. That that early 30s, you know, 27 is your prime. Say 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, you start to go like, okay, you were at the tail end of his prime. 32 you’re like, okay, people start to talk to you like you’re the vet. You’re the vet, right? You’re you’re the OG. And now we’re starting to talk about like when Jaylen’s 32 and Jason’s 31 and like okay that’s we’re going to start like really looking at the hard decisions that are going to start being made in team building. Every team has to face them when when their stars get to be in that in that area. You have hard decisions to make that are made harder by this new CBA. this chapter for for Jaylen, it’s not just a new era for for the Celtics, it’s a new era for him. Um, and I think I think all of this is part of it, you know, the the Twitch streaming, the the the stuff that he’s doing. Um, like yes, he’s promoting a brand. Um, he’s also promoting himself and he’s also I think you have to be a little bit more at ease with yourself to put yourself out there like that and feel like you can, you know, be like misinterpreted or misjudged and like not care. It’s I think I think Jaylen is is turning that corner which I think is great. uh it’s like a helpful kind of like if the the fewer uh Fs that you give in that regard, it shows up on the court, you know, and I so it’s interesting to see him do this. It’s interesting to see him be this kind of player, uh be this kind of person and to to hear him this like I’m going to be following him on Twitch. I’m going to see the, you know, the progression here, how he approaches certain things. Um, and look, he said he’s going to be watching film on there and he’s going to be like kind of breaking things down. So, I’m very very curious to see how he sees the game as well. So, that that’s going to be, you know, for him to be doing that openly. Talk about new era. This is a this is a new kind of version of Jaylen Brown. Uh, and I’m all for it. Like, I I think this I’m really looking forward to Jaylen Brown this season. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he does in this role, how he excels in this role, and what it means for him. I’ve talked about that a lot. Uh, but I loved the way he was able to handle those opportunities this past season. I thought this past season he was probably at his best as the the lone star on the team. like when Jason was out and Jaylen was there as the number one guy, I thought Jaylen really um really showed up and and played the right way. And I haven’t talked about Paul Pierce’s advice to Jaylen Brown where he talked about needing to be like more things to more of his teammates rather than just make up for Jason’s absence. Uh I thought we saw Jaylen doing that a lot last year. It didn’t didn’t work every game. Um, and I think, you know, the obviously the the the elimination game in New York, Jaylen was, you know, his knee was, you know, the meniscus was really hurting him, so that that almost doesn’t count. Uh, but anyway, I I just I loved how Jaylen handled that role last year. if he can take that next step forward, same type of attitude and just extrapolate that out for um 82 games or however many games he plays, it it really we talk about new era. It could be a new era for him. Uh so I’m very much looking forward to seeing that. All right, remember this week, I should have said this before, but uh Bill Chisum is speaking to the media this week. So that will be part of this show. Um, I think it’s happening on Thursday. So, uh, that would be the Friday show. So, we rearranging some things this week to accommodate the new Celtics owner. 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NBA shakeup: Fred VanVleet’s injury rocks Houston Rockets. Does this open up an opportunity for the Boston Celtics to trade Anfernee Simons?

John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down the ripple effects of VanVleet’s ACL tear on the Rockets’ roster and the league’s new CBA. Gain insider knowledge from an NBA officiating camp, exploring how refs are trained and upcoming tech advancements in the game. Plus, Jaylen Brown’s “new era” comments spark intrigue – is this a transformed Celtics star? Karalis analyzes Brown’s evolving role and what it means for Boston’s championship aspirations.

Tune in for expert analysis on these game-changing developments and their impact on the NBA landscape.

1:30 Intro: Fred VanVleet injury and Celtics trade options
5:06 Houston Rockets’ limited options after VanVleet injury
10:44 Inside look at NBA officiating training camp
16:22 Changes to technical foul calls this season
20:28 New camera technology for NBA broadcasts
24:33 Jaylen Brown’s offseason activities and Twitch streaming
29:08 Brown entering new era of his career

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