Based on his Twitch and social media activities I fully believe he was doing passive aggressive shit so he could pull the “well actually..” card

JB: Does and says things to show clear disdain to the team he is with

Masses: So do you want to leave?

JB: No?? I never technically said that?? Smh

He may have never explicitly said “trade me” but heavily implied it would be in the celtics best interest

it’s probably a similar thing to Giannis. JB probably never officially requested a trade, but both him and Celtics knew he didn’t want to be there.

Sounds like Brown himself probably told Shams “I ever requested a trade” but his behavior had made it clear there was going to be a problem if he wasn’t traded, even though he never called up Brad Stevens and said “trade me”

I mean technically Giannis never requested a trade, but we all know he did many times over the last year.

Brad Stevens: Well, Jaylen, you’re still under contract for the next three years and we think with the right pieces around you, we really have a shot at another–

Jaylen Brown: Trades. Nobody you get in return is going to play better than me. You think you can find someone who does, you have my blessing. But I think we all know that person isn’t going to represent you as well as I can.

Brad Stevens: Jaylen, we value your efforts. You’re making sixty million a ye–

Jaylen Brown: Tra-ades! Trades.

Brad Stevens: You want us to trade you right now?

Jaylen Brown: Woah-ho-ho, easy, I didn’t say that. Allegedly, your situation, for you, would be concurrently improved if you had a handful of draft picks and I was somewhere else.

Brad Stevens: I don’t think I… Mike?

Mike Zarren: The Sixers called earlier.

Brad Stevens: Philly?

Jaylen: I’ll tell you something. You’re suspect. Yeah, you. I don’t know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today, you can bet I’ll be looking into you. Now the business we had heretofore you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day gentlemen and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone.

The trade looks like an obvious win for Philly, but one of the talking points by pundits like Simmons has been Brown wanting his own team. That obviously would have been the case for the Bucks, but for the 76ers I think you can make a case he’s the third guy, given Embiid’s prior accolades and how beloved Maxey is.

If he did have concerns, and obviously that’s a massive if, with Boston being “Tatum’s team”, I wonder how accepting he’ll be in this new spot.

He didn’t specifically request a trade in the same way your fuccboi boyfriend didn’t specifically dump you in spite of DMing ²⁴⁄₇ every Only Fans model who lives in your city

What genuinely confuses me was when Brad saw he wasn’t getting Edge plus additional picks back earlier in the day. Why not flip brown for Duren. Detroit don’t want to pay him would’ve been better off than PG $ and then there’s no need to try and play Mitch starter minutes and watch him breakdown.

You’ll be picking in the T5 in 2028, write this in. That pick is tremendously underrated

Similar to the Kyrie trade. An attempt to get the best of both ends up with an underwhelming trade package.

Do you fr think they didn’t consider that? They need time to make moves between now and then, there would be issues within the season, and it’s not likely they could get much more for him considering the contract

Philly trading VJ for Jaylen and that canyon sized cap figure would be malpractice. Philon fell a lot in the draft which makes me wonder if GMs saw something we didn’t.

thinking VJ was ever on the table at all is even more wild

Feels like they didn’t actually want Philon

I’m shocked we didn’t give them philon at the minimum

If it’s easy to get off a player making 50+ a season, why haven’t the kings traded lavine yet?

I think it’s simply they didn’t think he was worth the investment going forward.

It’s so annoying and they’re going to disappear when this trade works out for Boston

I’m actually not basing it on box score stats, I’m basing it on actually watching basketball games; I know that’s a foreign concept these days

I guess we’ll see who’s right and who’s smarter than who, I’ll confidently stick out my neck and say I’m right and they’re wrong, the Celtics will absolutely not win a championship or even make another finals for the rest of the Tatum era and this will be proven as an awful move as time goes on. I’ll make that take 1000x over

Right, well enjoy never competing for a title again for the rest of Tatum’s time in Boston! But hey at least you’ll have that Brad Steven’s jersey you can snuggle every night to give you comfort

Great, the offers can be as awful as they want, wanna know how I’d combat that?

Not trade Jaylen brown

Hope this helps

We don’t even know if that’s true. The rumor is they wanted additional picks and young players on top of what they offered.

There’s only so much most teams can take losing. The Celtics just being bad for the whole year and then getting back to full strength the next season is a lot different than a team like the wizards who haven’t been good since John Wall got injured

If that was the plan, then they would have just played the good players fewer minutes and the lesser ones more minutes and stealth tanked.

They clearly tried to win games.

The roster was reset due to the CBA, but not to tank.

Yeah Ja has that slash and mid range scoring capacity. We got him at a bargain price too. Makes more sense not to waste our picks and young prospects despite JB being obviously better. I’m sure the Celtics wanted four picks and probably Sharpe + Scoot (not to mention Toumani and Clingan who were never available). Our picks, especially the Bucks pick and swaps are extremely valuable too.

Play games, play button on the podcast. He’s versatile

In PG’s defense most of his missed games last season were a 25 game suspension

Reminds me of the time I turned away from the urinal in the church bathroom, sprained my ankle, and couldn’t play for three weeks.

Stop it. Clippers will be a lottery team for the foreseeable after unloading Kawhi

Lmao clippers are going to be mega ass

Meh, he has the second biggest contract in the entire league, thats the ultimate respect IMO.

Celtics? Or the media trying to force a divide between tatum and brown before they won the title?

Gave him a record breaking contract that every other team took turns shitting on.

They hadn’t talked about trading him since summer of 2022.

Sorry to be pedantic but two guards and a forward is not a front court

The Bucks would probably take PG and a pick for Herro!

i’d rather be able to sign free agents next year and allow the team to actually perform their positions which wouldn’t be possible with brown