Brad Stevens has deleted his Instagram account
He shut down his Instagram account after everything that went on today. I gotta wonder what he expected after this trade
Breaking news: His instagram account was hacked, the trade was done via DM to Phila’s GM.
Nico strikes again
They said ”was hacked”, not ”was a hack”.
ICE COLD
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It was Nico and the niners
I got blocked from his Instagram. And I’m proud of it.
Brad Stevens deleted his Instagram because he knew we’d all be looking for him. Boston just traded a Finals MVP in his prime for an aging, injury-prone Paul George. Unreal. I’m devastated.
Aging is one way to say it i guess…
Bro is already at the age when a ton of players already retire
Don’t forget the two first-rounders. Wasn’t a straight up swap.
Those picks will be 20 something. They’re worthless
Doubt the 2028 clippers pick will be in the 20s but still a bad trade.
That’s not true. Clippers 2028 will probably be top 5. Philly’s 2028 is only on the table if it’s top 8 and a better pick than the Clippers.
https://streamable.com/lsjgk
I’ve finally found the perfect situation for this clip reply. Fucking. Perfect.
Truly immaculate lmao
The whole thing was so weird. Ever since the draft and approaching trade window, suddenly JB is on the trading block. Draft passes and there are still stories about Boston shopping JB around, like they were hell bent on getting him out of there. They just persisted until it finally happened. Given that so far it looks like an imbalance in Philly’s favor, the whole thing stinks of something going down between JB and the Celtics that makes me thing the Celtics just wanted to usher him out as soon as possible.
I mean he probably deleted it because he was getting death threats
That or his wife is asking why Dianna Russini is in his DMs.
“She doesn’t even cover basketball Brad!”
This was a normal trade, move on, find a new slant
Yeah, okay.
Big collars is that you?
Bryan Colangelo strikes again
Can’t imagine how ugly his DM’s prob got today
Lots of death threats i reckon
Definitely a few from Simmons.
Simmons going ham on his burners probably
Also from Phil Timmons and Gil Quimmans.
Pretty much guaranteed to be true, unfortunately.
Probably lots of n words too, weirdly
Nico?
oof, we don’t say his name out loud
He would have asked for Embiid and included a second rounder.
But how many n words per 36 are there?
We have to put things into analytics or else nobody will know whats going on.
Analytically, the racists won 2 of 3 games
Oh how the mighty has fallen
Now prestis turn
Presti already had his turn with the Harden trade.
At least that was because his owner refused to pay up rather than him just deciding he wanted Harden gone.
And he tried to flip Harden for both Beal and Klay, both of which would have been good enough returns if the Wizards or Warriors had agreed.
Every single part of this Celtics debacle is because his hand was forced by ownership, too.
They never had any real intention of trading for Giannis because they didn’t want to pay him moving forward. They acted like it was real in order to appease the fanbase, but they never wanted to actually acquire Giannis.
They traded Jaylen Brown so they don’t have to pay him $70M a year moving forward. This is a cost cutting maneuver, plain and simple.
Finance bros.
This is smart cope. Blame the worst people on earth instead of admit that your guy can make a mistake.
They could have found other ways to duck the apron. Hell, if all you wanted to do was get off his contract, there were better ways to do this. I doubt the “Finance Bros” are going to be thrilled when PG picks up his option next year. This was a bad trade, Brad fucked up.
People blaming this on PE are losing the plot. Yes, PE is bad. PE shouldn’t own any stakes in sports team ownership. PE bad.
But if PE so bad and wanted to save money, why trade for a guy who basically has the same contract as Jaylen for the next two years? The $70M a year wouldn’t kick in until the 2029-2030 season. You don’t trade a guy today because of what his salary will be in three years.
They wanted to mix up their core. They wanted Giannis. They missed out. JB got upset that he was yet again publicly included in trade talks. He was liking shit on instagram about “getting traded to a city that respects” him. Brad obliged. Market was worse than they thought it’d be. Getting PG + some meh picks was the best they could do to remain competitive (Celtics will basically run last year back but with JT instead of JB… plus PG and Mitchell Robinson).
I also think that ducking the tax for a second consecutive year to dodge the repeater tax plays a big role here. We were never going to go “all in” this year. I think they go back to pushing their chips in next summer. PG can pick up his player option and now the Celtics have a $56M expiring salary to ship out along with a slew of draft picks.
Does it feel great right now? Of course not. But I trust Brad to figure it out.
Cost cutting? They dont save much with PG’s contract and option.
Oh how the turntables
Take that name out of your mouth!
He has to have that turned off. He can’t be that dumb. He probably knows its not worth it to be online at the moment
Yeah there’s one reason why players leave their DMs open, but I doubt Brad is in the same boat
LOL, but you aren’t wrong
I heard Nico sent him some heartwarming DM
He deserves Nico level of blame.
Today I learned he had an IG?
Probably just some regular dude named Brad Stevens
Poor Brad, he works with me at the 7-11. Nice guy, Brad.
Bad Luck Brad
Considering how many Brad Stevens there are out there, a few of them probably gotten some nasty dms for no reason today
“Man I love Culver’s.”
Comments:
“You stupid fuck!!!!”
Now now now, let’s not bring Culver’s into this.
He doesn’t (didn’t) use it hardly at all and barely any of what he had posted was NBA related, it was just boring 40+ y/o white dude stuff. The kind of stuff your uncle or dad posts on Facebook.
The last time he posted anything was when they won the finals and he only had like 6k followers lol.
Wasn’t for the trade his wife caught him in some dms.
Only because Paul George mistook Brad for Roy Hibbert & proceeded to fuck his wife. Brad was just getting revenge any way he could. Only option was to cheat on his wife bc ownership keeps PG untouchable.
lol, did that ever come out confirmed?
nah I think it was fake.
Tangentially, I ran into Roy Hibbert and his wife Downtown when they were back in town a couple years ago. Short interaction, but they seem to be doing well.
Roy Hibbert man what a guy eh
That playoff series really killed his career
At least he’s tall
V E R T I C A L I T Y
I miss game of zones so much, I remember Roy Hibbert showing up like a Pokémon saying “verticality” lol
Damn he must have got so much Hibbertcoin
paul George joining the long list of Boston sports perverts PED users and cheaters. Move over vrabel, kraft, ortiz, brady, udoka, and belichek it’s St Paddy P’s time to shine. Still more likeable than Alex Cora at least. WAIT HE CHEATED TOO HOLY SHIT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT CITY
His wife caught Brown in his dms that’s why he was traded in the first place
his wife caught Jaylen Brown going into BRAD’S DM’s and Brad had to trade him to avoid questions about his sexuality
YA WOIFES IN ME DE EMS!
Doctah stoppage!
THERE WERE NO CHECKS!!
Dude and his family are getting harassed and possibly threatened and this sub is making false jokes about him.
did you come to this sub for mature discourse?
First time?
Udoka 2.0
Proof
its in the pudding
Social media and gambling has ruined humanity.
Damn humans, they ruined humanity!
Humanity wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for all the humans
“Hell is other people” - Sartre
Humans sure are a contentious bunch
YOU’VE JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE
It was fine when it was just message boards and you had to access it from a computer. The 24⁄7 anywhere access is toxic as hell.
Lax moderation on the major social media outlets is a HUGE issue too. Like shit like this should 1000% result in a permaban from any social media, but it just doesn’t.
If these networks actually permabanned people from behavior like this, it wouldn’t exist as much.
What’s the matter, not a fan of kalshi culture?
Social media specifically. I watch videos of concerts from the 80s-90s and long for the crowds of people all there in the moment with each other.
Someone posted Mazzy Star singing Fade Into You yesterday on r/oldschoolcool and I melted, then despaired that those times are gone.
I took 4 shits today
Makes sense, what else is there to do is Sacramento?
Bowl games bound, with a constant kiss of Poseidon
Drive around cause I’m in California with nearly everything to do
You mean sit on traffic?
or even in it sometimes
One does not sit in traffic, one is traffic
Cool railroad museum.
Do you actually know anything about Sacramento besides the fact that the Kings suck? Lmao
He can go to As games after they moved to Sacramento
I’m about to take #4
Rookie numbers
I’m on west coast time, still a long night
I believe in you champ 💪
inspiring
Only 4?
But did you give any
Where’s the meth
sounds like someone needs to book an appointment with their gastroenterologist
He should’ve taken Kawhi and picks instead 😭 Clippers fan here lol
Kawhi didn’t want to go to Boston. Reportedly the only teams on his list were the Spurs and Raptors
Kawhi leaving after a season would’ve still been better for Boston than having to pay 37 year old Paul George 56 million for another year.
My thoughts exactly lol
It’s possible Kawhi had other leverage and incentives for trading him where he wants to go lol. I guess not ones that wouldn’t hurt his own reputation too though.
Kawhi doesn’t go where Kawhi doesn’t want to go. That’s for sure.
First post back will be about him taking a college coaching job
He’s gonna announce that he’s joining the Pacers as an assistant during the NBA cup, which will be held at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
It’s already baked into the script.
He know he fucked up
I seriously doubt he decided this.
but he could certainly steer the trade for another player besides PG?
I mean when you have a headcase like JB who nobody else wanted, what are you supposed to do?
Trade the farm for Giannis like they were supposed to in the first place
He went to a farm downstate, for a better life. Also he gets to run freely through the tan booty cheek filled meadows of Miami now.
I think y’all are crazy. They weren’t winning with either player, and PG is cheaper with a shorter contract compared to JB and Giannis.
If you noticed, the Celtics self-combusted every time they didn’t have KP or Horford as unicorn big men. They shot themselves out of games - JB mostly. That’s why the Heat kept getting the better of them, for one thing. Yes, Giannis could have been that guy.
Everyone thinks they have a shot with Giannis, but when’s the last time he made it through the playoffs? How much of a headache has he become?
Maybe everyone else is right, but I don’t buy it. Everyone believed in Ja past his expiration date, too. Just look around the league, and there’s so much talent and the hard cap means no room for old men. Look at the last two Finals.
Maybe look at the last 3 finals instead.
They had a shot with Giannis. Especially if Hugo was all they had to include, their supporting cast would’ve been fucking awesome with JT and Giannis
What I find crazy is if Hugo and maybe Schierman were really what held up the Giannis trade did the Bucks say no to Jaylen for other stuff. You would think they would have done like Herro and Turner for Jaylen. I would rather have that than PG and picks from a team that will probably be in the playoffs.
trey murphy or mpj or fucking aaron gordon 😂 anything better
Trading JB for MPJ would be swapping an all nba PR nightmare for an all star PR nightmare.
podcast boys, love it they can hop on a stream with kyrie too
People are suggesting that this was genuinely the best offer that the Celtics got, and if thats true, first off insane, but secondly that could only be the case if the Celtics were calling around so desperate to move JB that all 29 other teams thought they could get away with their own highway robberies
It was very well known they were trading him and the teams that wanted to add him have to not only give up players and capital but also pay him 70 mil a year which he isn’t worth.
Like at what point does this subreddit realize that the contract is where the value is, not necessarily their on court production. Like if a player averages 40 points a game and is the best player in nba history you going to pay him 200 mil a season and surround him with vet mins? You expect to win?
Give Milwaukee Hugo.
I mean Jb has been acting like a big baby lately so that makes since
trade him to portland for scraps
JB for Timelord, straight up
Take Jimmy and much better picks.
Mdj is an idiot who doesn’t know trades, so Stevens will have to offer it on a plate to him though
He should also stay away from Jaylen’s Twitch chat.
Watch his first post back be thanking the city of Boston for accepting him as both HC and the President of the team
He’ll then say he’s thankful for the opportunity and will be returning to College basketball as a coach or program head
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There’s no way Brad ‘Executive of the Year’ Stevens does this trade without a gun to his head from the higher-ups, right?
Isn’t EotY another cursed slim reaper award after which you get fired, like CotY?
I think he had a gun to his head in terms of trading Jaylen.
I don’t think ownership said “yeah flip him to philly for nothing”
The directive was handed down to him to trade Jaylen and get his contract off the books, but Brad’s job is to evaluate offers and get the best possible return. It was his decision to ship him to our rival who just punked us in the playoffs for basically nothing
Whether Brad agreed about trading him we’ll probably never know
Brad Stevens had an Instagram account?
How much is probably on him vs other staff/owner? With these bad trades im always skeptical that the backlash is a surprise
It’s always the owner. The GM is just the fall guy
That would make sense if Paul George didn’t cost as much as Brown
i thought PG doesn’t cost as much as JB because his contract ends a year earlier?
You’re correct.
Yeah, our fanbase has gone rabid and forgotten that, although Brad steers the ship, he isn’t the sole decision-maker.
Brad Stevens: very happy to welcome PG to the Celtics
Owner: delete your fucking account
Im fairly certain it was ownership pulling the trigger
😂😂😂😂 not even Nico did that lol
Bro probably in hiding rn.
He shutdown his only fan? A lot of Mormon moms are gonna be devastated
He will get fired like nico
Matter of time
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copypasta or legit?
It’s an Obsession reference but with how crazy this off-season is I wouldn’t be surprised
Either way hilarious
Fans are just way too Obsessed with this trade.
Its in a recent movie. Obsession.
Legit unfortunately
why did the mods remove his comment then
I think they thought it was a copy pasta 😭
What did they say lol
supposedly this was Brad’s last post:
“The air was charged by the distant call of the night bird. His face was obscured, but I knew he was looking at my chest, each side stretching, recently matured to different sizes. “Hansel, come lay with me like the old woman taught us when we were children,” I said. He closed the door and leaned against it. “You’re not my wife, Gretel,” he said. “I’m more than your wife. I’m your sister!” Hansel flinched and reached for the door handle. I knew he would not leave this place. He would relent and choose to be inside me, like he had many nights before. If not, I would flay his meaty forearm, roll it like a stick of licorice, and insert the flesh between my legs. Hansel is my soul. A love only the branch of a willow tree could conjure. Brother, you will be inside me tonight.”
aint no way
Long ass obsession reference sounded emo lmao
It’s okay you can still get in touch with him on his other account @pete.Buttigieg
I’m just here to say that it’ll age better than this sub is expecting
JB is massively overvalued and his extension would be concrete boots for this team. We got genuinely good picks and can flip PG as an expiring later on when a good free agent becomes available
Will Brad be ostracized by the Boston fans like the Mavs fans did to Nico?
Will there be “fire Brad” chants in the garden when the season starts?
It was a bad trade, but the Celtics already won a ring with their core and Stevens managed to get two FRPs from Philly. This trade is closer to the Gasol trade to LA or KD trade to the Suns than the PG-SGA trade or Luka trade.
I’m too poor to go to games but I’ll be chanting it from my couch.
he won us a ring… so he likely has enough goodwill wher ewe give it until the end of the offseason to show if this is really it
I would have too
Nico was deemed an amazing, top tier GM as well, until.. he wasnt.
Dumbest trade
I can’t believe how badly he handled the whole JB trade situation. He definitely lost legacy points this offseason 💀
Couldn’t handle the hate like my goat nico harrison did
Everyone knows that Boston fans are dangerous when extremely angry
I’m sure this came from the new private equity ownership. If I was Brad Steven’s I would have refused and resigned over doing this idiotic trade.
Boston has a problem with shooting too many 3s so get rid of a guy with a midrange game that would drive the basket. The coach should have been fired and you continue to build around the Js.
It’s obvious to me the private equity ownership doesn’t want to pay.
Damn, guys are going dark out here
Cannot believe what he’s done it’s absolutely brainless.
Probably for the best right now.
Everyone should delete their instagram account.
Hoe ass. Couldn’t handle the smut from a terrible trade.
grown men probably was on there crying lol
Fuck Brad sevens
Why tf does he have an IG LOL
How big was JBs contract extension going to be?
From one perspective, it will be funny if celtics fans chase off their very accomplished executive that built their championship over trading a star player that didn’t want to be there and tanked his own value with his own words. However, the online death threat and harassment is just utter scumbag behavior, so I would say, please do better, Boston.
a star player that didn’t want to be there
There is no evidence that Jaylen wanted to leave or demanded a trade.
Brad made the move so Bill “Big Bill” Chisholm could acquire a few more yachts. It’s not that crazy when you understand wealth and yachts.
He must of been in a bad place to make this deal.
Might have to start making Brad say ‘Yes’ here pretty soon
This is almost as bad as the Luka trade
He’s gonna have to hire security for his family - Boston animals
Nico and Brad, man, Nico and Brad.
He’s meeting up with Nico :P