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Emergency Jaylen Brown Trade Reaction + Timm Woods And The Return Of Dungeons And Dragons
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Jul 2, 2026
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Emergency Jaylen Brown Trade Reaction
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Big Cat ticks through the full litany of Hank's sports misery this year: the Patriots' Super Bowl loss, Live Golf's cancellation, Celtics losing to the Sixers in the playoffs while at Max's bachelor party, Duke's buzzer-beater loss, soccer becoming huge and the US beating Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Knicks title. Hank's list also includes being forced to golf as a lefty with a righty handicap and the USA beating the Dominican Republic. The crew wonders aloud if this Jaylen Brown trade is finally rock bottom — the only direction being up — but Hank refuses to commit because acknowledging a bottom might invite something worse. Big Cat offers increasingly bad spin zones about the wedding being easier now that everyone has one conversation topic, and about Paul George's infamous dog photo.
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100-to-1: The Most Shocking NBA Trade Ever
The Philadelphia 76ers had 100-to-1 odds on DraftKings Sportsbook to acquire Jaylen Brown — the worst odds of any team in the NBA. They landed him anyway, sending the Pardon My Take crew into full emergency podcast mode.
100-to-1 odds for Sixers to land Brown
DraftKings Sportsbook had the Philadelphia 76ers at 100-to-1 — the worst odds in the NBA — to acquire Jaylen Brown before the trade happened.
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