Because they know he’s isn’t that good. Ime and Stone overrate him. They could have gotten Ayo with some effort at the February deadline and he went onto score 43 points and play good defense during the playoffs, while the Rockets were clearly struggling despite some improvement by Reed.
won’t trade for 24 y/o LaMelo won’t trade for 29 y/o Brown But this MFer Stone will trade for at the time a 36 y/o KD and then do basically nothing afterwards? somebody…anybody…make it make sense Why did we trade for KD? Why?!? What are we doing? What is the goal?
Man must be hard to be a celtic fan, but hey they did get a ring with them 2. The new owner must of got some negotation skills from Morey lol..
I get that this is a Rockets board so that our focus...but why did the entire NBA make the same choice that we did? He could have been had for a bag of doritos and everybody still said nah.
the Sixers didn’t say nah, and they just got a major upgrade for nothing there are a lot of teams content to just tread on by, the Rockets seem to be one of them
i think we are seeing a realignment on salary values given the CBA, specifically the supermax. That’s got to be a huge factor. You basically have to be a top 5 player for it to be worth it for a team. 35% of the cap has to be reserved for truly elite players. Jaylen Brown is an all star, but he’s not a top 5 player. It certainly doesn’t explain the process. One has to question Brad Stevens’ judgement, but I don’t think they wanted to pay JB mid-$60’s/low $70’s over the next 3 yrs. The new ownership group may have played a big role in this.
just recently he was the ecf mvp and he was rhe finals mvp just last year he carried his team to 2nd seed
1. Celtics Nation revolts on Brown's lack of return 2. Stevens is dismissed like Nico. 3. Patrick F. hires Brad as GM. 4. Brad lures Mazulla and Tatum to the Rockets. the end.
Sick of Stone with his head up his ass. All these "assets" just sitting there and we have our D**ks in our hands. The Rockets are old and are going to be hurt when the playoffs come along. KD will be gone too if we flop again this year.
Maybe he was thrashing his teammates on his burner account and got exposed... Oh wait that was our own culture builder, 10 years older, franchise killer that Stone just had a perfect opportunity to unload yet as always did nothing.
It seems like they could have pulled Brown for Jabari plus expirings (FVV and Capela?) and a pick maybe. I think I would have bitten on that personally. We'll have to wait and see if Stone was correct to stand pat this time around.
Brown went for a bag of chips. Stone is the only GM in the league that still believes we're headed to the finals next year.
