Chris Russell is on the air from 1-4 p.m. on The Team 980, so quite often, he crosses paths with BMitch & Finlay in our Audacy studios right before he goes on air – often to hilarious (or disastrous) results for one or both entities!
Well, Monday was no different, because Rooster was crowin’ in our newsroom about the Bradley Beal situation, and after JP said “shocker, Rooster is here and he’s pissing everyone off,” and it wasn’t about the “free food” that Finlay actually paid for to feed his crew today.
But really, Landfill asked Russell for his hot take on the Bradley Beal deal, and well, here it is:
“I mentioned that I understand they screwed up the whole entire process, but my thing is to everyone saying they should’ve traded him years ago – people would’ve killed the organization for being cheap, not rewarding their own, and not keeping their best players,” Russell said. “I understand they got screwed, and got nowhere near the return they should’ve for Beal, because they screwed up with the max contract and the no-trade clause, but I don’t get the revisionist history thing.”
“When were they in the playoffs last?” BMitch replied, to which Russell could only muster “fair point” before the guys debated that entire notion of killing the organization and Brian went all in:
“You make a trade when the player is the most valuable, and they didn’t do that,” BMitch said, “and if they had let Brad go two years ago, the people who were talking, I’d ask them if the team had been winning and in the playoffs consistently. We blame the owners, but we as the media, and fans in this town, are as guilty as anyone, because we get happy about individuals, and the team sucks. I don’t care if a guy scores 30 a night and they lose by 10, I’m looking for the team to go to the playoffs consistently.”
Rooster then admitted they didn’t have the right supporting cast, so they dealt for Kyle Kuzma and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to re-tool, and then added Porzingis – but “nobody in that front office, and no one in the fan base, should’ve been expecting this team to win 35 games in back-to-back years, but the only reason they did is because they had three guys who can’t stay on the court!”
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JP deadpanned “all those guys are gone,” referencing the old front office that did it all, and BMitch could only say “nothing that went down didn’t happen without Ted (Leonsis).”
Listen to the whole exchange above!
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