i guess it’s like how they traded Pascal for Bruce Brown just because he’s GOTTA be traded.

Brad didn’t want to spend 3 hours in a private room at Toscano’s

Things apparently went sideways between Jaylen and the power brokers in the Celtics organization.

And Windy said the Celtics felt White had a better season than Jaylen! Mentioned on/off numbers.

probably not

Yes he was under contract for a few more years lol.

I believe so. He would have been mad, but there’s no way I’m doing that trade with the Sixers.

Right? My exact thought, no hand was forced.

Truly an interesting move, especially trading him to the team that just beat you in the playoffs.

He must’ve been toxic

that’s where the “under duress” part comes in. Whether it was ownership or JB himself, someone forced the Front Office to pull the trigger

I am also asking!

Getting Jrue wouldve been more palatable for Celtics fans lol

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probably Jrue and a pick, Blazers FO doesnt really seem like they do big swings that cost a lot

They clearly didn’t want JB that badly. It was probably Jerami Grant and some protected firsts.

Could’ve also been the Celtics were dug in on clingan and the blazers said hard no

And the Nuggets? Ik Denver ain’t have no picks but wtf

I legit bet it was the cheap ass owner not wanting to have to extend him

MacMahon said they struggled to get the Blazers interested. Bucks turned the Celtics down too.

I really wanna know cause how tf do we not get this done

Well if we’re going by their metrics it might not actually have been worse at all.

Something is going on, people say the Celtics got fleeced - but they were shopping him everywhere. That means that 28 other teams wouldn’t offer more than Paul George and a few picks. If people think the Celtics got fleeced, you should ask why your own team did not beat the 6ers offer. The Celtics trading with their division rival is likely close to their last choice.

Didn’t he just get locked up by the corpse of Paul George

Especially to another playoff team in the same fucking conference. It’d be one thing if he got traded to a Western team 1:1 (which is still a bad trade) but to another RIVAL in the same conference?? Baffling.

The corpse of Paul George becomes Paul George’s Expiring Contract next year.

Paul George’s Expiring Contract + the extra picks they just received could be flipped for a star player next year.

My guess is this trade will be viewed very harshly for this season and then it will all make sense the following season.

Clippers going to get that much better with BI?

I don’t. I know like three days ago everyone was shitting on the analytics bros but it’s incredibly rare to have a great player like Jaylen have such bad analytics for such a long period of time.

Obviously he’s not the 7th best player on a team (and the trade does back that up), to be clear.

Why? Why would they take a worse deal?

Shams said they were talking to 10 teams

I mean does this trade not confirm this? If they could’ve gotten more than Playoff P they would have

Ding ding ding. Franchises can’t give players like Jaylen Brown >35% of their cap space and expect to succeed.

Giannis’ trade return was terrible? It looked like they took everything Miami had except Bam.

Or the definition of “star” players have changed 

We won’t see any true blockbuster star trades the way we used to. The new CBA has completely changed the landscape for roster building and GMs are realizing you can’t just keep maxing guys or having more than 1 supermax slot on the team. No one wants to take on long term money in trades now because of how crippling it is.

The only terrible return for these star players was for Brown imo

Nah this is just a dumb trade

A good player is always better than cap space

They won a title with tatum and Brown, it’s not like this duo didn’t have success

Nba front offices are just dumb

Yang bout to pop off tho’

No, it says target opponent

Who says that was on the table?

nuggets prolly didnt offer murray

I’m 99.9% certain that was never on the table from the Nuggets.

As much as Bill Simmons tried to podcast that into existence there’s no way that offer was on the table if this is the best package they had

But almost certainly wasn’t offered.

Yea, that’s what makes this so dumb, just keep him until someone else gets desperate, which happens every year.

Difference is perceived value. Walker at 35 million for 4 years is a much better value than Jaylen Brown at $61 million for 3 years.

Brad probably knows something y’all don’t. He’s not Nico lol.

I mean if there was a better offer, they would have taken it.

Why? It’s the obvious conclusion here.

For real. I didn’t want them to add a lot to Brown because I thought they valued Brown, and an offer centered around Brown already provided a lot of value.

But is THIS is all Boston valued Brown at, their Giannis offer wasn’t even serious. You need to give up value to get a top-5 player. Add Hugo and 3 FRPs if all you think Brown is worth is Paul George (a negative asset) and 2 FRPs.

Don’t we constantly have evidence that ~80% of the teams in the league are actually dogshit at evaluating talent?

I think what happened is that they overplayed their hand and every team that was offering more already pivoted and made other moves that took them out of the Jaylen Brown market.