
Jaylen Brown’s All-Star weekend showcased both on-court firepower and off-court drama. He had a great early run in the tournament, but tailed off in the final two games. The bigger story might be a run-in with the Beverly Hills PD, derailing his 741 event—costing him $300,000 and raising questions about celebrity athlete treatment. Jayson Tatum drops a teaser for his anticipated five-part docuseries chronicling his recovery and planned return, while Derrick White owns his “All-Star impact,” sparking debates about recognition versus real influence in the Boston Celtics’ lineup. John Karalis of Celtics On SI breaks down Brown’s All-Star performance, and also has a candid take on the NBA’s tanking controversy, questioning if outrage is genuine or just fleeting fandom. Key highlights include Victor Wembanyama’s rising stardom, formats that reinvigorate All-Star games, and why strategic tanking remains a polarizing, yet often celebrated, path to team greatness. Don’t miss this rapid-...
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Now on the locked on celtics podcast, jalen brown's all star weekend. Pretty good except for a run in with the beverly hills pd and derrick white's all star impact. Hey there. Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast network where it's your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them Monday through Friday, weekends, maybe twice a day. Who knows whenever I decide to talk about them. Bonus podcasts all over the place. So subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Watch a show on YouTube and just enjoy it. I hope you enjoy it. That's the most important thing. I'm John Corrales. I'm a beat writer covering the Celtics for Sports Illustrated's Celtics on si. I've been doing a version of this job for about 20 years now, this podcast for 10, and I have a couple of books about the Boston Celtics as well. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. Use your profit boost for an NBA future and get entered for your chance to win a trip to the NBA Finals. Play your game with FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Coming up later on, just a few words about tanking because it was the big thing about an All Star weekend. It's been a big thing. People are losing their minds over it. I just want a place to kind of say my piece. That's coming up later on Derek White, his All Star impact. We'll get to that in the second segment. Also like Jason Tatums. So that's a kind of a catch all second segment with D. White, Jason Tatum's five, five part docu series about his return. We'll get into that in there as well. But first, Jalen Brown and the All Star Game. Jalen did not. Hold on one second here. I got my light. Let me just turn my light back on here because that went off. There we go. Now I can see myself. I, I hate doing that. I'm sorry. For people who are on the audio side, audio only. But I had a light go out and had to turn it back on. Jalen Brown at the All Star Game. For a second, for a hot minute, I thought, oh, Jalen might be the MVP of this thing because in the first game he played, he, he scored 11 points. He had 11, 11 points, three rebounds. He shot five of nine. And the way they did this round robin thing, it was USA versus the world. Two USA teams. USA Stars, USA Stripes and the World Team. The World team lost both of their games. So it was USA versus usa And Jalen in the first game looked really good. He had that 11 point game and I think, oh, okay, Jalen's gonna have this, this, you know, he might have a chance at, at the MVP here. And then in the second game, didn't really do much. In the third game he shot 2 of 10 and it was all about Kawhi. And then it was, you know, the, the third game was just a blowout and Anthony Edwards was doing all of in. In. Edwards was the mvp, but Jalen had a, a pretty nice day. I can't say game. It's a series of games. Ultimately 15 points, but nice night for, for Jalen Brown. I thought he, I thought he played well. I, I think he might have run out of gas a little bit because he, if you watched his stream earlier in the day, he ran a mile and a half for some, some event he was doing and he was out there talking about his, his event that was shut down by the Beverly Hills pd And part of the, part of the whole event, the 741 event, was running a mile and a half. And so he was like running and talking and I'm like, okay, this, this is, I mean, great. It's All Star weekend. Who cares? I was like, this, this might not go well for him later in the day. And I think like he came out strong, but at. At the end was probably just a little bit, maybe a little bit tired. Maybe the legs weren't exactly there for him at the end. And you know, it didn't. He. He didn't perform his best in that last game. Maybe is unrelated, I don't know. But generally speaking, I thought Jalen had a, a nice night. And yeah, I thought, I thought the Celtics were well represented with him and Ron Harper Jr. At the, the skills. That was not. Not skills. It was the Shooting Stars and then the Rising Stars game. He didn't do a ton either. But it was cool to see him out there with his dad and his brother. I mean, Ron Harper, Ron Harper Jr. Dylan Harper out there just doing their thing. That's got to be a cool moment to be an All Star Saturday with your dad and your brother. And even if you didn't win, that's just gonna be a cool moment. But I don't know what else to say about Jalen at the All Star Game. I will say that the All Star game or games plural, were good. And let me just back up a little sec a little bit. I thought the games last year were good too, and I didn't even Go back and look at my podcast from last year. But I know that I was pissed at the TNT broadcast last year because the TNT broadcast last year was fawning all over itself and they, they had these massive delays between games and they took away from the product on the floor and it was just this big self congratulatory thing and, and it took away from the actual basketball. I thought last year's All Star game was actually good and this year's All Star game was also good. The, the format worked. The three team format. You want to do us versus the world, fine. You want to do us or, or just All Stars versus and they had like a G league team last year. Didn't bother me. The, whatever the format is, this round robin short game format is good. I think it works. I think the, the competitiveness is there and it just takes one or two guys to go in there and be like, no, I actually want to win this. And you know, if everybody agrees, hey, we're all going to not play hard, then you have the All Star games of the past. If one or two guys say oh no, actually we're going to play hard, then the competitive nature of everybody else kicks in and they actually play some decent basketball. And the short bursts actually is something that works. So last year's format, this year's format, similar, similar, kind of just nuts and bolts, round robin style basketball. However you want to do the three teams is fine with me. I think you expand it out, you make it 15 all stars on each side. You can do 30 total players, 15 east, 15 west. And you can, you can split that up into or, or make it, I don't know, add a wild card and you can split it up into four teams. And however you want to do it, you, you can, you can do a round robin and make it work. And I think this was proof of concept. So I, I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it last year. But again, the TNT broadcast last year was so bad, so awful, it bothers, it still bothers me to this day because it was so self serving and that's not what the media is supposed to be. We're supposed to be observers and documenting and not be all about ourselves. But obviously a lot of people make it about themselves. So I'm glad to see the, the effort in there this year. Victor Wembanyama was incredible. I mean he was doing some things where I was watching. I'm like, oh, oh, oh. It was really fun watching Wemby out there. That moment that the viral moment was where I forget who hit the shot? Damn. Uh, but Carl Anthony Towns, kind of like Wimby went Adam and. And then Carlton. The town's just kind of like. And they hit. They hit that big shot. And like, Wemby was just so angry. He was angry that that shot went in. I like that. I like that competitive spirit. I like that competitive nature. So a good. A good All Star Sunday, which was the best part of All Star Weekend. Normally it's the Saturday, but it was the Sunday. Good stuff. I think the NBA should be happy that they got that. Keep doing it. Make it USA versus the world if you want. Funny to see a lot of American players kind of in the world, but you know what, to be honest, if I was an NBA player and I could represent the world and represent Greece, I totally would do it. And so not the biggest deal, but just funny to see sometimes. But, yeah, I get it. So good times. Jalen was good. Good times. The Beverly Hills PD stuff, we're still kind of trying to figure that out. He had an event. It got shut down at like, he. As. According to Jalen, 7pm The Beverly Hills PD said the. They. They had a permit. They had applied for a permit that got denied. They did it anyway. After the. After the game, Jalen was like, no, we didn't apply for a permit. We didn't have to. The owner of Oakley basically let us use his house. I'm a brand partner with Oakley Oakley, and we use this house, and it should have been fine, and it wasn't. So Jalen is saying that he was targeted. I don't know. According to Jalen, his version of events made it makes it seem like there's more to the story. But that was. That was kind of like the interesting subplot. Jalen tweets out $300,000 down the drain because he had to play. He had to pay personally for a build out for a popup at the event. And he said, you know, he put up $300,000. He apparently put up $300,000 of his own money, and that got, you know, shut down. So he wasted his own money, which sucks. I don't care how much money you make. $300,000 is a lot of money. So that. That's a. That's kind of like an ongoing saga. It's very interesting to see. I want to know how that kind of ends. But that was. There was a subplot throughout the whole thing that happened on Saturday, on Sunday, during his live stream, he was talking about it. He talked about it after the game. So maybe he moves on from that. But I'm sure as the, the days go on here and maybe as the road trip begins, because he's going to start his trip out there, I don't know if he's going to stay out west, just meet the guys in San Francisco, but there's going to be, there's going to be some sort of closure to this. So we'll see. All right, up next, Jason Tatum drops a teaser for his docu series on his recovery and Jalen and I'm sorry, Derek White talks about his All Star impact. Today's show is brought to you by fanduel. Ever wanted to experience the NBA Finals live and in person? FanDuel is giving you the chance to turn that dream into reality with their NBA Sweepstakes. Here's how it works. You use your profit boost on any NBA future and you'll automatically be entered for a shot to win the trip to the NBA Finals for two. That's right, flights, tickets, the whole experience. If you're already looking at the board and thinking about which team can make a deep run, this is the perfect time to lock it in. 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You have access to ad free audio for Lockdown Celtics compatible with Apple Podcasts, Spotify and every other major podcast app. You have access to the NB locked on every Dare Club Discord server, which includes a group chat for Lockdown Celtics listeners, NBA listeners and you have special all access episodes of Lockdown Celtics. So check it out. Lockdown Celtics supercast.com Lockdown celtics.supercast.com so Jason Tatum dropped a teaser trailer for his docu series, a five part docu series on his return. I knew that they were shot shooting a docu series about his return that's going to be coming out soon. It, it just chronicles everything and you know, it's kind of an interesting behind the scenes look of Tatum going through the injury. The initial diagnosis, you see him in the thing saying, I can't feel my leg, you know. You know, after the surgery, the him walking, you know, into the practice facility with a walker using like a walking stick to walk around the facility. It's, it's a really in depth kind of look at everything that he's been through over the past at this point, 40 weeks. But you don't drop a five part docu series on your recovery if you're just looking to. Hey, just, hey, everybody, look at, look at what it takes to come back. I'll be back in, you know, six months when the, the next NBA season kicks in. Don't worry about me now. I'll. No, he's coming back. He is coming back. I've said this on the podcast before. If you're new to the show, I want to reiterate, look at the difference between Jason Tatum and Tyrese Halliburton. Halliburton was on the Mind the Game podcast and talked about scrimmaging. Did he talk to the media? No, he did not talk to the media. Jason Tatum scrimmaged and practiced with the main Celtics and has been practicing on his own with, you know, with coaches and stuff. Once he had a practice with the, with players because league rules mandate when a player is coming back that season, if you're planning to play, then you have to talk to the media. He talked to the media. He had a media availability that is all part of him coming back to play. So there's still the matter of ramping up. So he's going to ramp up and there's always the possibility that something could happen during the ramp up that delays him and makes him not come back this year. So I'm not saying he's guaranteed to come back, but I'm telling you he's planning on coming back. The, the ramp up here is part of the plan to come back. The docu series is part of the triumphant return for him to come back. He is planning on coming back and unless something happens, he is coming back to play basketball. So just putting it out there just so everybody knows. Jayson Tatum is planning to come back and play basketball this season. It's very simple. It's not a statement. It's not an outside the, the box statement. He is planning on coming back to play basketball this season. Yeah, it's Obvious. He can say I might or might not. And that's true. He might or might not because you don't know how the actual ramp up is going to go. So we can't definitively say I am coming back on this day because you don't want to say that and then have it not happen. Because if it doesn't happen, then it becomes a setback and then people like me be like, you said March 4th and now it's March 5th and you didn't come back. Why? That's what, that's why. He's not going to say I'm coming back on this day. But because he's meeting with the media, he's putting out this stuff, he is planning on coming back. No matter what he said before about like, I'm not sure if I'm going to. He is planning on coming back to play basketball this year, End of story. That's a fact. Move on. So whenever he does, obviously that's going to be a big story, but we'll see how the ramp up goes. But he's ramping up. There's no more injury recovery, there's no more. None of that stuff. It's just ramping up, getting his cardio right. So while that's happening, we are waiting for the Celtics to come back. And I just thought it was an interesting thing for Derek White to mention on his podcast, the White Noise podcast. Him and Alex Welsh. Actually, Alex is the one who mentioned it. So Derek didn't make the All Star game, obviously, and his poor shooting was probably why he, he wasn't invited. You hear people like Zach Lowe say, I had him on my all star team. If Zach had him on his all star team, that probably means that there's some momentum in the league amongst coaches that, you know, if, if Zach has him on an all star team, there's going to be other people who have them on, on their all star team. And the shooting ended up in January being his worst shooting month. Historically, it is his worst shooting month and so he didn't make it. But if you listen to his podcast, which is always fun, I think it's, you know, an interesting kind of. You never hear extended conversation from Derrick White. So Alex was saying they have a group chat and they're all like complaining just like they do. Right? You know, a bunch of, a bunch of friends were complaining like, oh, man, you got snubbed. And Derek said, I don't have all star numbers, but I have all star impact. Which, boom, that's a great. That's a great line. It's perfect. And I think that I, I like that awareness. I like that understanding and it's absolutely true. Dark White has all star impact. He is a plus, almost a plus 10, you know, on, off like he's. The Celtics are 10 points better than their just average numbers when, when he's on the floor. And I really do think when you talk about Tatum coming back, Derek has the, he might have the most to gain from Tatum coming back because his shot profile is going to go from very heavy pick and roll creation to more spot up. His numbers have, have essentially flipped where the off the dribble kind of pick and roll ball handler stuff has been in the past like 20% of his shot diet. This year it was 34, 35% of his shot diet. And like last year it was the opposite. It was 20. It's 34% spot up this and 20, 20% pick and roll ball handler. So it flipped this year. Much more pick and roll ball handler. He's, he's good at it, but it's not quite one point per possession. Spot ups last year were like 1.3 points per possession, which is elite this year because of everything. I think that has dropped to an okay number, but not elite. What makes Derrick White so good was the, you know, he's elite at that spot up stuff. I'm looking forward to him not only having an all star impact, but having those all star numbers come back when Jason Tatum comes back. So I thought it was interesting that he talked about on his podcast the all star impact because he has had that. Obviously he's one of the best defensive players in the league. He might be one of the best, you know, one of the top two, three defensive guards in the league. He is elite, elite, elite at, you know, defensively at that position. So I'm looking forward to him having that offensive impact, that all star impact overall, including his offense when Tatum comes back. So I'm looking, I really am looking forward to that. All right, we'll discuss a lot of that as we move forward in the week. Some in more in depth conversations coming up this week. But before we wrap it up, I want to come back and talk about this tanking debate I wrote a column about. Was the first question asked to Adam Silver and I just think it's overblown. Like we're, we're going too far with the reactions to tanking. I'll explain that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by. Indeed. Workplace chaos, deadlines, stacking up inbox overflowing and the one position you have to fill is still sitting there open. 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Adam Silver talks. He talks at the NBA Finals. He talks about all at Allar Summer League when they go to Abu Dhabi for the preseason. He'll have like an availability every major event. And the first question, the most pressing question this time around was about tanking. And I wrote a column on Sports Illustrated on Celtics, on SI. Why the NBA's tanking discussion is overblown and disingenuous, which is getting some reaction. And I want to explain the disingenuous portion of it because it is overblown. I'm not saying that, that there isn't a problem because the Utah Jazz, which we're following in the, the the Toronto Raptors kind of footsteps last year, playing, playing their best players to start games and building leads and being okay and then not playing them down the stretch is, is a, it's a problem. There's no doubt that's a problem. And you do have to fix that because I think the best point the commissioner made was if teams are actively taking these steps to be bad, are are they really the worst teams? Like the, the system is designed to help. It's not reward. It's not reward the worst teams. It's help the worst teams get better by giving them access to the best incoming rookies. Right? That's. It's not, hey, congratulations, you were bad. Your reward is Cooper flag. That's not it. It's, oh my God, you've been bad. You've been terrible. Like, you've been a really bad team. We don't want you to be bad for long. We're going to help you out. Here's a good rookie and that I think is an important distinction. And if a team like Utah isn't really that bad, you say, well, okay, you shouldn't be rewarded with a good draft pick. And I get that. Totally understand that there is a problem with tanking. My issue is the hand wringing the pearl clutching the oh my God, won't someone think of the children when it comes to tanking? Like the, the discussion is so over the top sometimes and people go way Too far with it. Like, this is just. This is part of the. As long as there's a system of trying to help these bad teams, there's going to be a team or two or three that goes along, goes through and says, well, we have to take advantage of that system. We have to get into this so we can get the best possible rookie, and that's going to help us get to the next step. We're going to build our team with this great rookie and we're moving forward. Tanking just happens. And the disingenuous part is when it works for whichever team it works for. Doesn't always work. Doesn't work for everybody. But people were getting on the OKC Thunder for tanking, and they were compared to the process. They were compared to the process. Sixers for a couple years, they got a couple of players. They got Holmgren, they got Jalen Williams, they. They ended up obviously in the process getting Sheikh, Eldridge, Alexander, but they end up winning a championship. And now Sam Presti is a genius. He's the gold standard. The Thunder are the team that everybody looks at and says, oh, my God, look at all the picks they have. Look at how good they are. They're. They're just incredibly set up. What an amazing franchise. Well, how do you think they got all those picks? How do you think they got set up this way? Tanking. But once the tank works for a team, people are like, oh, we're very well. Very well done. Very well done. Congratulations. What a great front office. San Antonio spurs, very obviously tanking, got Victor Wembanyama. Boom, done. Now they're, you know, they also got Stefan Castle, they got Dylan Harper, they got a good kind of core around him. They got. Just because you've hit with the pick, you got to get the right pick. You get the right. Got to get the right player, you got to get the right players around them. But the tank worked for San Antonio. The tank has worked for multiple teams. Once that happens, people are like, wow, look at San Antonio, how good they are. No one cares that they tanked before. This is the disingenuous part. And this is where. This is where I have the problem. People go, oh, my God, this is so terrible. This is ruining the game. Oh, look at you. You got a great pick. Now Dallas, like, obviously Dallas is a little bit of a different story because of the Luka Doncic trade, but in a couple years when Cooper Flag leads them back to the playoffs, people are going to be like, wow, Cooper Flag is amazing. And whatever new front Office, the post, Nico Harrison, stuff like that stuff is going to hang over the team for a little while. The recovery from that is going to. They're going to move past it. They're going to move past it and it's just going to say, Cooper Flag is leading them. What a great team this is. And that's it. This year, whoever gets the top, the top pick or one of the top two, three, four picks, those teams have the potential to become great. And in a year, two, three, if it's Utah, if it's another team, people are gonna be like, wow, you know, hey, look, this, this worked. Look at how great they are now. Look at how good, like you have to make the next moves, the, the supporting moves and all of that. But you still, once that happens, everybody just kind of seems to forget. Everybody kind of seems to be like, oh, wow, well, they're good now. That's great. It's very Homer Simpson, like in the, you know, the Lord lad from the donut thing, he's like, oh, he came to life. Good for him. Like, that's, that's what people end up being. We move past the animosity so quickly, but the anger at the tanking still there, just directed towards the next team that's doing it. But it's, it's disingenuous in that. It's like, well, we're angry at this team, then we're angry at that team. We're not angry at the team when they're good. But that's, that's the team that's benefited from the tank does. Again, it doesn't always work. Tanking sometimes doesn't work. And that's the risk you take. You put your jobs on the line, the franchise on the line, and if you're not good, you don't have a backup plan, then you risk losing your jobs. And that's a problem for the person who's losing their jobs. It's a problem for the fan base. But I just have a problem with all the hand wringing. And then when, when the tank is done and it's completed and it actually works for certain teams, people are just like, wow, what a great, what a great front office that team has. Like that part, that part just doesn't sit well with me because. What are you mad at? You. What are you mad at? You're mad in the moment, but then it work like people aren't still mad at. Ok, seek. Why? If you're mad at tanking, you should still be mad at OKC. Excuse me, but as soon as OKC1, it's like, wow, they're ahead of schedule. Look at Sam Presley being awesome. Look at all the picks they have. This is amazing. They are gonna buck the trend. They're. They're beating the system. What an amazing front office they have. They tanked and they tanked to get there. So I'm just saying keep it a buck. If you're angry at tanking, be angry at the team for their success through tanking. But people aren't. They're not. People just want to be mad at something. Oh, tanking is ruining things. Actually, it isn't. It isn't. Because the teams that are tanking, their fan base is generally like, yeah, you know, we got to do it. It's cool. We're okay. As long as it's not for five years. Then you become the Sacramento Kings. But what you don't want to be is the Chicago Bulls stuck in the playing tournament forever. I'm sure Chicago Bulls fans ask a Bulls fan how they feel about tanking. I'm sure a majority of them would be like, we should be tanking. We should have been tanking for a little while now. I don't understand why we're not. That's going to be the. That's going to be the pervasive. You do not want to be the Bulls. You do not want to be the Kings. But that's a whole other front office issue. You do not want to be the Bulls. Everybody clowns on the Bulls for being a perennial ninth seed. You do not want to be that. So just tank. And people will say that. Just tank. But then they'll get mad at the tank. No. Just. No, I'm done with that. I'm done with that. Okay? People like to be mad and. And complain about this, but the issue is, is with them. It's not with the Tank. There are problems for sure, and they need to be fixed. I think some of the protections on picks are part of the problem. The Utah Jazz are not a bottom team. They're not also the six worst team. Like, they shouldn't be the six worst team. But because their pick is protected, top eight, they don't want to give it to okc. Take the protections out. That's fine with me. Fix the system a little bit. That's fine. Absolutely. The system needs fixing, but I think we're actually in a good place. Some little tweaks, some little fixes. This whole. The whole thing needs to be fixed. The whole overhaul does not. Do not need an overhaul. Relax. Just relax, fix a couple of things, take the protections away, and I think the. The flattened dot. Everything's going to be okay. Just chill. It's okay. It's okay. All right. That's the podcast. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. I do appreciate you. I'll be back. You got full week of podcast bonus podcast coming up, so make sure you're subscribed wherever you podcast. Watch the show on YouTube. And now I would love it if you share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to you and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast network. 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Podcast: Locked On Celtics
Host: John Karalis
Date: February 16, 2026
Episode Theme: Recapping Jaylen Brown’s All-Star Weekend performance and incident involving the Beverly Hills PD shutting down his event; discussion on All-Star game format, updates on Celtics stars, Derek White’s “All-Star impact”, and John’s take on the NBA’s tanking debate.
John Karalis dives into Jaylen Brown’s eventful All-Star Weekend, discussing his on-court performance, the controversy around his Beverly Hills event being shut down, and how the Celtics were represented during the festivities. The episode unpacks Derek White’s quietly massive impact, previews Jayson Tatum’s return documentary, and ends with Karalis’ pointed take on the tanking debate dominating NBA discourse.
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