JK has always been good. We are so lucky to have him and Noa.

I’ve always liked Sam Packard from Still Poddable (formerly Anything is Poddable)

Hi John

Thank you Karalis can you do us a favor and please do something other than mailbags for four straight months for the love of god

as soon as he said during one of those early jaylen segments that he was just gonna wait and see what brad actually gave us i was locked in. that is absurdly rare in modern nba media where takes need to be atomically hot within 12 seconds of a woj bomb.

the bar is so low it is on the floor but still. he treats it like a job where you gather facts first which shouldnt be notable but here we are.

i do agree with the other comment that the mailbag episodes get a little repetitive. i usually skip those and just catch his solo game breakdowns. those are way more useful than anything coming out of the tv studio broadcasts.

John Karalis is an old school dude. No bullshit

I hate zannis but he’s the only one who actually understood what was happening in real time. Emotional and annoying for sure, but he got it. The rest of them on that show, Brad could answer a thousand questions about why it happened and they’d still be lost.

Karalis is fine but he was so adamant that it’s Jaylen for Giannis or no trade and he’s not going for pieces, it’ll be for a bigger star. Sometimes I feel like he doesn’t see a vision beyond his own and when something different happens, then he’ll entertain it. Karalis and Tom are a great pairing, I just can’t do solo pods with no real conversation being had

Karalis and Jay King have been doing god’s work for decades, since the Red’s Army days.

I’d add Noa as a solid objective perspective. Karalis is ok. I think zannis did ok too but definitely emotional. Bill Simmons was the ABSOLUTE worst . They should revoke his Celtics season tickets. Forsberg will never give you an unbiased opinion.
Karalis does a little too much crystal ball stuff for me. Tries to tell you what will happen which is not why I listen to him. Also, his production is, how do I say? not great, on his podcast. He should hire out.

I love days when John has Tom Westerholm on (like today)

I’ve been listening to John for almost ten years now. I like how he always comes off as just a real guy and how he’s able to take a step back to assess certain points.

I met him last year. Great guy

John Karalis is great! I don’t always agree with him, but but he comes across as genuine and his opinions are grounded. He’s a charismatic host too so easy to listen to

Don’t sleep on Karalis. Basketball knowledge and grounded coverage is very rare these days.

I love his podcast. It’s one of the ones that I listen daily. I do agree that on the offseason it’s hard to have topics but he keeps things entertained.

I agree. Their were a lot of people putting their emotions into podcasts after the JB trade.

I’ve been listening to Karalis for about a decade and fully appreciate his work!

Love John Karalis! Great at what he does. Noa of course too

Karalis does a phenomenal job. Not only is his analysis great but he’s done an excellent job of pivoting as the show has changed. Transitioning from The Rainin’ Js era withe the synergy he, Jay King and Packard had, to solo and now to including Tom has been a masterclass. Dude’s an all round pro and great to listen to.

Just listened to a couple episodes of his podcast on the way into work this morning. He and Tom are great together as well. Big fan.

I’ve never really followed Karalis but I listened to his pod like every day during the last couple series of the 2024 playoffs and he hit the nail on the head every time. Especially about the Mavs series, although it didn’t take a rocket scientist to say what he said.

He is my gold standard for Celtics analysis.

I agree with the assessment and I’m glad you included Forsberg. He has always been a biased homer and that was fine with me, since it was for the Celtics but he emotionally lost it on the JB trade. Even after we all had a master class in the new CBA, realized how the league FOs evaluated JB and understood there were few to no options, Forsberg never came back with a realistic view of the trade. Most fans were hyper-emotional even when it was being discussed for Giannis but anyone that still doesn’t “get it” is a total waste of my time.

Karalis’ pods are best when he has someone like Westerholm to talk to/bounce his ideas off. His solo pods are fine but the flow is just better when he doesn’t have to be on a monologue.

I was a mess after the JB trade but i knew Karalis was gonna be the one to pull me out by providing logic and reasoning. Best celts pod.

My kingdom for a Celtics podcast that doesn’t do Prize Picks ad reads 

What I appreciate about Karalis is how levelheaded he can be, especially when we needed it as fans. He seemed just as hurt as everyone else talking about I’m not sure how we move forward, but then he immediately is telling us why he thinks it was done and it all made sense.

His is the one daily podcast I can listen to every day.

A lot of media, including Boston media, had some terrible takes of the Jaylen Brown trade. They will not age well.

I’ll catch him on Big Jab radio occasionally. Solid interview segment every time.

I’ve been reading him since his RedsArmy days. Fantastic work, and nobody did the grind harder to get where he is.

Agree it’s the best Celtics Podcast and quality analysis. I’ve taken a break from Celtic stuff till the season starts.

Uhh how did Brad explain things in the presser?

I would always read the Morning Dump on Redsarmy

I would say first to the floor has these measured take with a good amounts of homerism. Spoony and Jake measured takes with Ben`s production work and they all love the celtics with good takes make me really appreciate them as well.

Karalis is pretty solid and I appreciate that he does his pod in the summer when there is nothing going on, but he isn’t always the smoothest talker in regards to expressing his thoughts.

He seems like a cool dude, though, so I’ll still put him on. I definitely prefer him over plenty of others, too

Kinda checked out after the trade. Forsberg didn’t take it well? I feel like he’s a pretty rational homer

Karalis is one of those dudes who threw a tantrum when Jaylen got traded too lol.

It wasn’t as bad as Washburn who was legit about to cry (jfl), but it was definitely wierd.

Unironically the best Celtics “analysis” outside of zannis comes from the annoying twitter trolls who post databallr screenshots.

So if you disagreed with the trade, you were acting emotionally? You couldn’t be unemotional and hate the trade? lol. The posts here are comical sometimes.

Zannis is a toolbag of the highest order

Jk is mid but it’s good he didn’t say mean words

JK has slurped brads dick his entire career in Boston. He is a green teamers green reamer

karalis slurps the team more than any other

I’m not a commentator or anything but fxck me if this trade didn’t break my heart a little bit. Reminds me of when I first started watching the Celtics and they traded Ricky Davis who was my favorite player at the time.

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Hahahaha what. John was absolutely embarrassing and is a massive Jaylen fan