Raja Bell

I really don't want to do that.

Don't meddle with that, man.

Whatever you need to do to make this about competition and clean up the optics of that to the younger generations and to the people that aspire to be in your league one day, please do that.

I don't have the answer.

I'm...

I am a true lover of sport and a true lover of what sport can mean to young people in terms of teaching them life lessons and what type of thickness of skin and stick-to-itiveness and general competition can mean to them in their world, transcending sport, whether that's the business sector or the fine arts or what have you.

It is really important that we protect the essence of that, and you're fucking around and playing with it.

That bothers me, and I'm asking you as a league, whatever it is, figure out a way to protect that because that's important.

Otherwise, we're living in the WWE.

I was blessed not to sustain any real lower body catastrophic injuries.

Like I had a major like wrist surgery, but you know, that was something that when, when I came back from it, um,

I don't think the risk of re injuring it was as catastrophic as, as one, like an Achilles or an ACL or something like that.

So, you know, I'm not speaking from a place of experience with this.

I would just say to him or anyone, like, like they were my kids, like be, be patient with that.

They have, and he has Jason Tatum access to doctors and, you know, rehab technology that,

I'm not privy to so

if in fact the rehab and the timeline for return to play has shrunk significantly over the last couple years and he's being guaranteed that he's safe and his percent chance of re-injuring that is super, super low, then by all means, do your thing.

I love watching him play.

The Celtics are in an incredible spot right now with an opportunity in the Eastern Conference.

So maybe sneak into the finals in a way this year.