Banger start to the off-season

Jaylen Brown to the Pelicans incoming

How are the Celtics gonna be competitive against the Naz Reid Hornets? Definitely not with Jalen Brown.

LaMelo hasn’t actually produced playoff success and proven he can - JB and Giannis are winners

Charlotte did just get some fancy new draft picks

I think it’s more than hurt feelings.

Jaylen has thought for awhile he’s a 1A superstar, and now he’s had a season where he feels he’s proven that.

He knows Tatum — if healthy — will always be Boston’s 1A, and he won’t get that opportunity again unless he’s somewhere else.

Boston knew that this has been coming to a head, and Giannis was Plan A to get value for Jaylen.

Yeah, to me this is a total overreaction to blowing the 3-1 lead

Keep in mind Tatum didn’t even play in that game 7

Exactly. If Brad can acquire a semi-competitive center, this roster is good enough to win, they just need to play smart

This isn’t the 1st year JB has been in trade talks. He knows its a business and his feeling weren’t hurt before. He’ll be fine, I think he stays.

The Tatum Brown duo is still elite. The problem is the rest of their roster.

The Celtics overachieving record wise this past season made things look a lot better than they are. The reality is the salary dumped 3 of their top 6 rotation players from the title team and they filled in those blanks with players who were not/are not very good.

Despite the drop off in talent they were able to win a ton of games last year, but as the playoffs showed us their record was largely a product of being well coached, well prepared, and actually trying to win in a league where a third of the teams were tanking instead of actually having the talent to win in the post season.

Because of this they know they need to get better across the roster and when you need to improve across the board it doesn’t make sense to have the overwhelming majority of your payroll concentrated on two guys who do the same things when you could sell off one and ultimately bring in a collection of guys who individually aren’t as good but do different things that compliment eachother and Tatum.

That’s on the coach to get them to stop chucking 3’s but he doesn’t seem to want to do that.

Would also help to have a starting caliber big

The big problem with him is in our playoff series he had 25 TOV to 23 assists, it’s hard to have a great offense with him handling the ball that much.

It was elite under the old CBA when you could afford to carry a third or sometimes even fourth max contract because it meant that you could have two versatile stars and still be able to complement them with elite size or quickness. The reason why they’ve chucked threes historically is because they’re really not different enough that they can run plays together that generate meaningful advantages beyond what they can do individually, and individually neither is good enough to get to the rim at will in a seven game series against either a team with an elite rim protector or a team that just totally loads up on defensive wings like the Knicks or the 22 Warriors.

I assume it’s more about balancing the roster than thinking the duo can’t work anymore.

Derrick White can’t win with these cats

Anytime teams wanna move on from players like this it makes us moving on from Brunson hurt slightly less bc maybe teams are just dumb as shit.

Yeah well what did he do last year? That’s right, 0 ECFMVP and 0 FMVP. Scrub.

Would u be comfortable giving 31 year old jaylen brown 70m? That’s wats happening here

It’s going to be Kawhi and it’s going to be funny.

Are the Mavs ready to tank again because it might be nice to bring Cooper Flagg a little closer to home? Just a thought.

Its Windhorst. He’s 90% opinion pieces

Doesn’t say anything definitive. Doesn’t offer proof. Doesn’t even say sources are telling him. Best reporter in the NBA.

Because that is now going to be the next storyline in the NBA.

Windhorst has zero sources for Boston. Always just guessing shit

Yeah, the headline to this post is misleading and should be taken down.

The only way for them to recover this

We need a POINT guard

Our teams basically play the same way anyway, so he’d fit right in lol. Both teams live and die by the 3.

That’s probably what will happen. Can the Hornets acquire both Brown and Ja? Assuming Miller goes to Boston in a Brown trade

Can they trade for Stephon Marbury to be a player coach?

Rare earth minerals and as much xiaolongbao as you can eat

jB for 128gb of ram

Everyone in the organization gets custom green and white Labubus holding mini Larry O’Brien trophies

Him saying “it was the best season of my career because Tatum wasn’t around” probably didn’t help lol

Yeah, I mean they tried to trade him for KD years ago. But AFTER he won Finals MVP, they publicly made a big deal of trying to beat the Heat’s offer for Giannis, after he led them to the 2nd seed largely without Tatum last year. And knowing Brown’s personality, that relationship might be irreparable.

Bruh nothing has even happened

This info from windhorst makes no sense 

Yes but since then they traded away huge pieces in Porzingis, Horford and Jrue and exchanged them for young, unknown rookies and Vuc on his last legs. They can obviously still be competitive but their current roster compared to their championship roster is miles different

Clerics are under the tax completely since the deadline

That first stream after he gets traded will hit like crack

Ill die on the hill that a 3 team trade sending Brown to Miami and Giannis to Boston would have left all 3 teams better off

Houston have the assets

Miles bridges, grant williams and 5 firsts 

New englander here, locally it sounds like they want to make a move with the pelicans for Herb and Trey

I’d be down for this. Use the trade exception to get him and I really like our team, even if I’m devastated by the LaMelo trade.

And people called it out at the time. Brown was the largest salary in the NBA at one point. 

Two wings on max deals is quite possibly the best combo you could have. The only other one is a wing plus a unicorn PG/center or two unicorns.     

They lost this year because their roster wasn’t intending to compete. They made it to the playoffs as a second team despite missing a max player and half a roster of prospects.        

Upgrading brown for Giannis is great. Trading brown for speculative pieces does nothing for them to improve. 

The Finals MVP is so overblown. He had 36% and 41% true shooting (25 and 30% FG) in the final two games and averaged 20 points for the series. He shot 23% from 3 for the series. He averaged 3 TO to 5 assists. He got lost on rotations defensively.

They had an incredible supporting cast and Tatum broke out as an S tier playmaker along with Jrue. They can’t build a team close to that again and he’s about to get $70m per year.

Why on earth would the Celtics do this after how horrific Fox has looked

Zero percent change it’s with San Antonio unless one of Harper or Castle are involved

That’s because it’s probably coming from his camp.

He’s been trying since the 2018 playoffs so it had to happen eventually

You don’t need a source to comment on your personal opinion about the optics of trade discussions that became relatively public. This is just a strategy to fill airtime with topics that can get people watching content that ESPN makes money from since Fox owns the World Cup.

i’m a c’s fan so grain of salt. stuff doesn’t usually get out of the c’s org, so it’s hard to tell what of the media narratives right now is just narrative and what’s true. definitely seems like he’s on the trading block, but all this smoke around it might not be what the media is using to spin zone story after story to keep it relevant. my big brain conspiracy is jaylen is saying a bunch of anti-espn stuff right now too, and espn is driving a lot of this narrative so there’s something non-c’s related going on between the two parties.