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00:00Do you think we properly appreciate Jason Tatum in this town?
00:04No, I kind of don't.
00:06And so one way to look at it would be, and this is just for me, right?
00:11I can't speak for everybody, but I love Paul Pierce.
00:16Like Paul Pierce is one of my favorite basketball players of all time.
00:19I look at him as like one of the great Celtics of all time.
00:23And he was certainly a guy that never won a league MVP or was sniffing a league MVP.
00:28But I just loved Pierce.
00:29I remember when he was on some bad teams.
00:32I remember, you know, when he and Antoine Walker against all odds got to a conference finals.
00:36And then, of course, when he teamed up with Garnett and Allen and then them winning the title.
00:40But he won one title.
00:42He was never first team all NBA.
00:44Like Jason Tatum, as much as it pains me to say it, is a far better player than Paul Pierce ever was.
00:50Now, Paul Pierce has hit some clutch shots.
00:52We've questioned, you know, how clutch Tatum can be.
00:55He's hit some, right?
00:56But, you know, maybe he needs a few more of those signature moments to really stand out.
01:01He truly is one of the best players in the league.
01:04Like he's not, he's not Jokic.
01:06And he didn't have the season that Shea Gildress Alexander had.
01:10But he has now, for what, four straight seasons been a consensus top five player?
01:18Pierce was never that.
01:19Garnett was awesome the one year, his first year when he was healthy.
01:24He was first team all NBA.
01:25But he didn't have back-to-back all NBAs.
01:27Without looking it up, you've got to go back to probably Burt for a guy to be consecutive all NBA first teams on the Celtics, right?
01:34I can't think of anybody else.
01:35Even two in a row?
01:36Yeah, probably, let alone what he's on right now.
01:39Are we sure Garnett didn't do it that year?
01:41No, Garnett did it one year.
01:43No, I'm saying he didn't follow it up with all NBA the next year?
01:45All NBA first team, he said?
01:46I think he was hurt, right?
01:47Okay, well, he got hurt late.
01:48I actually don't remember.
01:49I'll look it up.
01:49No, he wasn't.
01:50He was all defensive first team both years.
01:52But I think he was only all NBA one year with the Celtics.
01:56Okay.
01:56I don't know if we take him for granted or I don't know if it was all the conversation when they were young and they weren't winning and we were putting that on him even though he was in his early 20s.
02:08But I think if you really stop and think about it and you look at the player that he is, I think he is underappreciated.
02:12He's truly one of the great players in the league, has been for a while, and it seems like he will be for a number of years going forward.