Big Cat and PFT Commenter Caused Brad Stevens to Cut Off His Press Conference [UPDATE with Audio]
Big Cat and PFT Commenter, the co-hosts of Barstool’s Pardon My Take podcast, called into the Brad Stevens press conference today and asked a couple questions that either amused or annoyed Celtics beat writers, and caused Stevens to end the call:
Lol @BarstoolBigCat just asked Brad Stevens if he’s coaching for his job this postseason and Brad answered it like it was a totally normal question.
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 18, 2018
Someone on this Celtics conference call asked Brad Stevens if he was coaching for his job.
— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) May 18, 2018
Stevens literally didn’t miss a beat and just answered the question calmly.
More from today’s conference call:
— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) May 18, 2018
“Hey Brad, it’s @PFTCommenter from DraftJoshAllen dot net, can you tell us if you have any interest in signing LeBron James this summer?”
Brad: “I can’t answer that.”
A lengthy pause.
PFT: “Please?”
Ending a entire press confrence instead of answering this is major case of methinks the lady doth protest to much #lebrontoboston
— PFTCommenter(DC DEFENDERS2-0) (@PFTCommenter) May 18, 2018
Stevens call ends abruptly with a ill-suited and completely out of line question about whether he would be interested in LeBron James as a potential free agent this summer. It's COMPLETELY against NBA rules to comment on players currently under contract with another team.
— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) May 18, 2018
I feel really dumb not knowing this rule. Won’t happen again, that’s on us
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) May 18, 2018
Apparently this was Barstool. I thought it was the owner of some boutique website starving for attention.
— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) May 18, 2018
If anyone wants to be so kind as to provide us with audio, we will update this post.
[Update: here’s the audio of the relevant portions of the call: