Celtics trade Jaylen Brown to Philly for Paul George, 2 first round picks

Saying he's a negative player is silly, but saying he's a positive asset in terms of value vs cap hit is just as silly

 

Been saying this from the beginning:
JB was whining and pressuring them to offer the crazy extension.
Celtics had no intention of doing so, which was smart.
JB complaining publicly about "lack of respect" made it difficult on the Celtics to the point they couldn't keep him.
Being under duress collapsed the Celtics leverage in trade negotiations.
They end up trading JB for some paper clips, a couple rubber bands and a pack of chewing gum.
Then anonymous insiders start grotesquely piling on JB because he's made himself an easy target, which is his own fault.

JB should be the most motivated he's ever been, but he's on a new team with a different coach and several incumbent players with their own personal agendas. It's gonna be a long season.

 

Brad Stevens on why he traded Jaylen Brown: “The path looked a little bit more challenging to me with 70% of our cap and such a high usage into two players and the reality in this era and in this day and age in the NBA you have to do a great job in building depth”

[Jeff Teague] I talked to my boy yesterday, my boy JT (Jayson Tatum) motivated. It ain't no slight because he was legit like, "Damn can't believe that sh*t went down." He was just like, damn that's weird. I'm like, the pressure's on now killa

 

he traded for 2 years of Paul George making over 54 mil/yr

he missed out on Giannis because of Hugo Gonzales

Is the plan to just waste the next 2 seasons having Tatum play with Paul George and a bunch of guys?

Brad Stevens has been doing nothing but dismantling the team the past few seasons then wants to talk about how they can’t win

with the way they’re talking about Jaylen Brown, I have no idea how they managed to win 56 games with a negative player who’s not even top 50 in the league while Tatum was out most of the year

 

PG's contract is more toxic than JB's in terms of value, except that Boston can get out of it one year sooner. It's almost like the Westbrook-Wall trade, poison for poison.

 

Can someone explain why the NBA cap won't increase 10% each year during the new TV deal?

 

they're supposedly building "to win" and not to save money. So they don't care about PG's contract this year. What they care to do is to build depth and to keep winning culture, even if it means to have a temporarily set back in regular season record. Without the trade, they'd have dysfunctional locker room because certifiably outspoken Brown will be demanding respect and to be # 1 option on offense and to have his extension contract secured - all of the things that their front office supposedly doesn't want to do given the cap situation. They want it to be Tatum's team and they can't afford 70% of cap tied to 2 players where one of them already had an Achille's injury and the other one is going to be 30 soon.

Seems reasonable enough.

If the market is not there for Jaylen Brown, they have to weight dysfunction vs waiting for the market value of JB to improve despite JB being vocally annoyed at his treatment this offseason.

As far as contracts go, PG was able to play in playoffs and score at 60% TS% this offseason. It was higher than Brown's 55%. In fact, George had higher PER during that series than Brown. His contract is still toxic but if they're able to manage his minutes, maybe it's worth 1 FRP to offload making Jaylen Brown's contract be worth 1 FRP. It's not like Boston traded them in the middle of the night like Doncic. We could've probably had him for 1 FRP + DFS +FVV

 

This is so stupid. So what if they didn't mingle personally, doesn't mean anything once it comes to playing (working) together. How many of us work with people that we don't have personal relationships with? I imagine most of us. Doesn't mean we can't put a great product. I get that these individuals spend a ton of time together throughout a season and go through a lot of battles together, but at the end of the day it is a job, and you don't need to be mingling with them after work hours to be able to kill it when working together. Some teams are close, others aren't, yet if they can have chemistry on the court, then they can win.

 

It isn't stupid. Saying their personal relationship "was as close to non-existent as you could have" is significant and implies a lot more than just not mingling after work hours.

What exactly happened between them "over the last year or so" to sour the relationship is something we don't know.

 

The more Brown talks, the more I understand why the Celtics traded him. Then, he's one of those players that earns a super-max, but isn't a superstar. There are plenty in the NBA and most or their teams wish they could trade them. There needs to be a superstar level contract reserved for MVPs. That would mean like 4 or so players get them, which sounds about right.