Bill Simmons: Jaylen Brown wants to be traded to Houston?

Ok, now I'm intrigued. I really don't want to add any bloated contract with aging and/or injured guys, but Derrick White would fit like a glove in our backcourt. Looking at his contract, it's reasonable and takes him through age 34 season if he opts into player option in year 4... https://www.spotrac.com/nba/player/_/id/23624/derrick-white

The question is what would it take to get him?

 

28yo, a 21-25 ranked player in the NBA at his absolute peak, due for $236 million in the next four years...

This is like the John Wall contract of the 2020's. If you can't win a championship around your #1 guy while paying him like a top 10 player in the league, what are you even doing? There's a reason Boston is making him available this offseason.

 

Adding Brown and White while keeping Amen and Sengun would be great.

I’d do Green, Brooks, Cam, Tari and the PHX picks.

FVV/Reed
White
Brown
Amen/Bari
Sengun

 

Green + Brooks + Cam + Landale + both PHX picks for White + Brown + Hauser (what if his last name was black... haha!)

FVV (new deal at 3/99) - Reed
White - Hauser
Brown - Tari
Amen - Bari
Sengun - Adams (2/30)

Slow squad: FVV - Hauser - Brown - Sengun - Adams

Uptempo / Run & Fun: Reed - White - Tari - Amen - Bari

 

Jb pulled a tmac . He's getting knee surgery

 

I would love for us to trade for Brown, we just have to get the Celtics to agree to eat at least 30-40% of that salary.

Oh wait that's baseball, we can't do that in basketball. The absolute worst contracts in basketball are players in the 15-35 range getting paid like players in the 1-15 range because the salary cap is preventing guys like Jokic, Giannis, and Luka from making 100-150M per year.

So I guess I would not love for us to trade for Brown after all.

 

Brown is a nice player but very expensive. I think he fits ok.

FVV/Brooks/Landale/Holiday/Jalen Green for Brown/White/Holiday and a 2031 swap option

Sengun/Adams
Smith/Tari
Brown/Cam
White/Reed
Amen/Holiday