Charles Barkley on Jaylen Brown trade: “The Sixers just got away with murder”
The entire league “there’s no possible way you could win with JB on your roster at his price point, Celtics had to dump him”
Also the entire league “I can’t believe 76ers got JB for so little! They fleeced Celtics! They’re the favorites now!”
But *checks notes*
He did win games lol
The Celtics are about winning titles.
Think he could ever be a conference finals MVP or even FMVP?
Not on a 35% max.
Yeah, like last season.
Wait.
But u did win in 24 😂😂😂
When Tatum and Brown were making under 50% of the salary cap
Paul George and Jayson Tatum combine for about 70% of the cap btw
PG’s contract ends sooner and he doesn’t expect a max extension.
Punting on 2 years of Tatum’s prime has a significant opportunity cost that people parroting what you’re saying tend to ignore
Yeah the move only makes sense if you think Brown isn’t actually an elite player. It’s clear guys like Chuck and guys like Brad put different value in his production
1 year they will attempt to trade PG plus their picks for the next disgruntled star.
Maybe they could go after Jaylen Brown?
No deal if Hugo Gonzalez isn’t in the deal.
But Hugo could be anything he could even be Giannis you know how much they wanted one of those.
And who would the star be
Whoever is next disgruntled who knows
PG shut down Jaylen in the Sixers series. Brown is better but I expect the team defense to improve and better ball movement.
Also think PG is one year experiment until they flip him with picks for a better 2. With three coaches we’ve seen the duo underperform in the playoffs. It was time for a change and they’re still competitive
I mean if it’s really not possible for Brown and Tatum to win while getting paid 70% of the salary cap, the alternative is basically punting the rest of his career.
Their mistake was not punting last season instead but they probably didn’t make up their minds until they saw them blow a 3-1 lead.
thats where you couldnt be more wrong thinking they are punting 2 years
Not sure where you got two years from. PG becomes movable once he’s an expiring deal. And they didn’t think they were a contender with Brown so what’s the opportunity cost?
Does he though? I feel like so many people overrate large expiring contracts these days, in large part because almost every team has a large expiring contract.
Strong likelihood that he plays out both years with Boston.
Even in the scenario where they can’t move him, they still get out of an underwater max a year earlier.
2 years of Paul George vs 3 years of JB, y’all are overthinking this way too much y’all got fleeced
Which is a pittance compared to the opportunity cost of losing 3 years of your championship contention window.
And also they couldn’t just let the JB contract ride off into the sunset. JB would demand an extension or ruin the vibes. PG of course doesn’t expect an extension. It’s a good move
They didn’t think they were a contender with Brown so what’s the opportunity cost?
Maybe not favorites, but I think most people would agree they were strong contenders with Brown. They were considered contenders this year with Tatum coming off the injury.
PG becomes movable once he’s an expiring deal.
Does moving Paul George make them a title contender again? Probably not, so it’s basically punting 2 years (minimum).
They were considered a contender and then they lost in the first round to a team that was nothing special, their second straight earlier than anticipated playoff exit.
Does moving Paul George make them a title contender again?
Depends what they get. In the meantime, I really don’t think they’re much worse than they were.
In a spectacular case of positive injury variance for the Sixers and negative injury variance for the Celtics. The Sixers caught lightning in a bottle for the three games that mattered most for that series before instantly collapsing in the next round.
And I thought everyone trusted the wisdom of analytics which would have told you the Celtics were the better team before the playoffs and even expected potentially to come out of the East. Overreacting to the variance of a single playoff round would be disregarding analytics.
they are unquestionably better. tatum instead of brown, who is better in every way. in addition, paul george, mitch, and mike conley, with an additional year of development on all the younger guys. might not be a championship team, but are also a better team than last year.
how could you possibly know exactly whether a PG move puts us in contention or not? did you predict we’d trade JB for PG? probably not
Of course few people predicted you’d be dumb enough to flip JB for PG
Who is punting anything? Celtics are going to be very good, and will contend.
They have the 4th highest Vegas odds to win it all right now.
Feels like they have those odds because of the expectation there’s another move coming.
I can’t imagine the roster as currently constructed actually having the 4th best odds if they stick with it.
Why not? Fourth isn’t very high because a ton of the odds are eaten up by SAS and OKC. The Knicks are good but not unbeatable, and the Celtics are positioned to win a ton of regular season games and have a good seed. They’ve got a very good team in a somewhat murky East, and all of the other non-Knicks contenders have serious questions – Miami’s spacing, Indy integrating a returning Haliburton, Philly integrating Jaylen
They used the MLE on Mitch, which means they’re hard capped at the first apron. There are no more moves of any significance possible.
Besides, the O/U on this team is currently 52.5 wins. If you don’t believe in the roster, go win yourself a shitload of money as that O/U would be extremely high for a team that you think is supposedly “punting”.
But I don’t know why you wouldn’t think this roster is good enough? They just won 56 games, almost entirely without Tatum. That means this year is the same team except JB out, with Tatum, Mitch, and Paul George in. Plus all the young guys had a massive development year last season.
This team is deep, balanced, and well coached. They will lead the league in defense again, as they only got much better on that side of the ball. Offensively they should be more efficient and have their true #1 scorer back to carry the load.
“Over the last 4 season Jayson Tatum has played a total of 287 games. (Regular/Post Season)
Out of the 287 games, Tatum has seen a usage rate of at least 33% a total of 85 times (29.6%). In those 85 times the Boston Celtics have a record of 76-9 (89% W%).”
It’s the same team from last year that won 56 games, but now with a better player leading the charge, development from the young guys from the bench that killed it, an old but elite 3&D guy and one of the best offensive rebounders ever. The math is not difficult lol.
A great reason to keep one of your best players
Edit: Also, anytime I talk about the JB trade on here is a 50⁄50 chance that people will tell me the Celtics are definitely clearly competing still or that their contention window has obviously closed. And somehow both are the key insight that justifies the trade. Flip a coin and the answer is different every time.
If they kept Brown their odds would be better btw
You’re only punting if you think you are actually a contender with Brown and Tatum making 70% of the cap
Why can’t people understand this?
Him becoming an expiring lines up with the Celtics no longer needing to duck the tax.
Because someone said it wasn’t about the money, despite everyone else saying it was.
Theres some context missing. Theres a ton of articles out there like “The CBA is forcing home grown stars to not get kept by their team, it’s too restrictive!” When the reality is they would have happily traded and paid more for Giannis. It doesn’t have to do with the money alone, it has to do with them not thinking Brown was worth that money.
I think a lot of teams in the league would have happily paid Brown that money, and I think they could have gotten more for him if they had drawn it out a bit more.
Mate your own team didn’t want to pay him.
Latest from Amick is he told Portland he didn’t want to play there so they were reluctant to trade more for him.
Because people just want to make fun of the Celtics.
How well this trade ends up working out remains to be seen over the next couple of years. But it’s so obvious what Boston’s reasoning was for it. Anybody who doesn’t get it is either dense or just trolling.
yeah it’s just this lol. i see the same braindead arguments and gotcha attempts over and over to where I feel like I’m in an endless loop of stupidity and then I remind myself what sub I’m in and it makes sense
If you want sympathy and understanding my suggestion would be to pick a team that isn’t so lame and hateable
Edit: How I feel getting downvoted despite being right
lmao
Hang it in the rafters
Seems like a steep price to pay just to get off of 1 year of Jaylen. I feel like his trade value with 2 years left on his deal would be similar to a 38 years old PG on an expiring
This trade’s exposed how clueless most NBA fans are about anything to do with this new CBA or roster construction, not that they’re much savvier when it comes to analyzing on-court stuff either. I’m sure there are some people who do get why this happened but are just enjoying an opportunity to troll the Celtics, that’s fair, but a whole lotta people genuinely can’t wrap their heads around the simple and objective reasons for the transaction.
I’m not even a Celtics fan but it’s kinda crazy to me how many people aren’t even considering the possibility that the numbers aren’t lying. I’m not saying blindly follow analytics but people aren’t even considering that the best available evidence is accurate. It kinda reminds me of when you look at your bank balance and conclude “something is wrong there’s no way I spent this much money”
The eye test supports the numbers. Brown’s not a very efficient scorer, he doesn’t pass or playmake well, and his team defense is bad.
Yes that’s true. I think he’s decently good at soaking up possessions, but that’s not really something elite teams want to build around. Would be good for a bad team though.
Because they don’t think about anything besides the here and now
Then don’t extend him? Are you going to extend Paul George? If not, that’s irrelevant.
You basically traded JB for 2 bad first round picks, AND you took on one of the worst contracts in the league.
If you told me the sixers could have traded PG and 2 1st rounders for literally an expiring contract (essentially for nothing), I would have probably said that’s fair. We get JB instead.
So again, this is basically getting rid of PG’s contract and getting JB completely for free as a throw in.
Obviously they worried that JB would be a malcontent about not getting extended, which PG won’t.
I don’t agree the first rounders are bad picks. The ‘28 Clippers pick looks spicy. And the ‘31 Sixers pick has big upside.
But most of you are also saying that this helps them extend their window and they’re not punting on Tatum’s prime (assuming he’s fully recovered). 2028 and 2031 doesn’t help you at all. I guess you could trade them for assets, but you’re stuck with PG’s contract which is the same as JB’s. So you’re still stuck with taking on salary.
Edit: So why not try to trade JB for someone who isn’t on one of the top 5 worst contracts in the league? Again, 2 firsts would be the costs for the Sixers to get off the PG contract and get nothing in return.
So which is it? Are you in win-now mode? If so, PG is the best you can do?
Are you shedding salary? I guess you shed 1 year of salary with this. The whole “we don’t want to extend JB” is irrelevant because you don’t want to extend PG anyway, so don’t do it.
Is this a punt until 2028 or 2031 move? You could say that’s valid, but who is saying that?
The best explanation for this move is that you get off the salary 1 year earlier, and you can either use what could be a good pick in 2028 or trade the future picks for a better asset.
Exactly.
Worried about players becoming malcontents 2 years from now is asinine. He’s under contract.
He would have been extension eligible at the end of July.
Exactly. And depending on which commenter you talk to the Celtics are either obviously not competing anymore or are obviously competing because analytics showed Brown is clearly worse (even though the Celtics have gone down in all the power rankings and the Sixers have gone up).
I think a good swath of /r/NBA nephews came down with a bad case of Reddit Contrarian Syndrome but the fever seems to be breaking now.
I don’t understand this logic of trading a 30 year old player for a 36 year old player, more injury prone players with a concern about an extension two years from now. Why not just trade JB in two years then?
Because he would get a lesser return then and might cause problems about his contract in the meantime.
Shorter contract that the Celtics got two picks to trade for btw
I think it was a dumb trade still for what it’s worth but the added flexibility & picks is obviously the difference maker, not just contract amount???
EDIT: plus whatever truth there is to the JB/Tatum beef plays a major role
Yeah and then Brad gave them both the supermax, now he’s lamenting that decision as if he wasn’t the one in charge of the FO when it was done.
Yea, and signing JB to that super Max without causing a fuss or risking any sort of tension got us a ring. He can be the one who made that call and also call out the current CBA for how it punishes teams for drafting and developing well.
Was JB going to underperform because he didn’t get the full supermax? No, according to the Celtics themselves, JB has always came in better the following year. In fact, it would have made JB more valuable in the eyes of everyone else(similar to the other JB on the Knicks), and it would made everything much clearer and save a lot of heartpain if the FO had taken a firm stance on the salary allocation and who was the only 1A being paid the most.
Instead, Brad kicked the can down the road, and now we can see the price being paid.
We also knew the CBA details BEFORE JB was given his supermax, many people were calling it insane if the Celtics really did that. If the average joe could see this coming, surely the Celtics FO would have as well but they didn’t adjust till it was too late.
I just find it really funny when people act like they know more about these superstars or what the locker room is like than the coaches and front office who are there every single day and actually see it.
The Celtics rewarded a homegrown star for their performance. They ended up winning a ring. That star’s development didn’t necessarily align with the kind of impact that it looks like the current CBA is requiring out of a super max, and thus makes having two of them untenable from a roster building perspective going forward. Brad clearly had no interest in signing JBs extension, so they ripped the band aid off early and before things had a chance to turn sour, for the best return the league was offering.
You brought up locker room vibes by using “kicking a fuss” and “tension” to describe the situation, you really shouldn’t be crying if people then offer an alternate explanation to the one-sided narrative that YOU started.
Gotta be fair to both side amrite?
If Brad doesn’t extend him, he asks for a trade. The extension bought them 2 years before it kicked in to stack the roster for the ring.
I know you guys have to find some way to spin this trade as reasonable. But it really isn’t working lmao
Oh I think the trade is complete garbage. If you couldn’t find fair value for him then keep him till the trade deadline at least. You don’t need to get under cap until then.
What if Brown has had enough and was using the bad press from not getting his extension now as a sign that they aren’t committed to him?
The way it happened after their meeting indicates either Stevens told him they wouldn’t pay for his Supermax/ needs to take a “paycut for the team” or Brown told them if he is still being shopped around after his all NBA season that he wants his full extension this summer.
I still don’t understand what is wrong about Brown saying he liked being the No1 guy on that low expectation year. There are plenty of flawed Max eligible players who would barely crack All NBA 3rd team or All Star to get that extension when they are on teams that wouldn’t make it to conference finals.
He likely figured if this is his best season then next year, everything will be going back to Tatum and he would lose all his leverage.
Then you let him holdout
All of that’s true, but I think is mostly irrelevant to the point. The point is that the return they got for him was terrible. Strictly doing what’s best from the team’s perspective, I find it hard to believe that they had to get him out the door immediately regardless of how Brown feels.
Just tell him to stay home then and continue to canvas the league until a suitor emerges. Brown could lose both his legs and this Sixers offer would still be there.
Dumping PG would have cost a pick.
You traded JB for a first and 2 seconds basically
It’s 1 swap and two seconds.
The swap can be the clippers pick tho, which could be a pretty decent pick.
Might even draft a guy almost as good as JB
If you draft a guy who might be as good as JB, he doesn’t cost 35% of the salary cap.
By the time he develops, he’ll get paid
Yeah but theres going to be some time period where their output exceeds the value of the deal. Maybe that’s one or two years on the rookie deal (like with the spurs young guys) or maybe that’s the deal after the rookie contract (Payton Pritchard is probably underpaid relative to his output, for instance). So you’re only sort of right
That’s far from guaranteed, so you’re kind of only sort of right.
You can use first round picks to trade for those contracts though. You can’t really trade older vets on a max. It totally makes sense for the sixers, their window is now. Embiids not getting younger or healthier. For boston it makes sense too. They need to dump salary this year to get under the cap so they can spend (and trade picks) and compete next year. Jb and Tatum aren’t going to win another title without a bunch of those undervalued guys
Yes so after JT’s prime
It is more a divide between the media talking head’s opinion of Brown and what the analytics and NBA front offices think of Brown
I think Front Offices have very different reactions to this trade than TV pundits especially former players. To me JB is a better demar a good possibly even great player at 45 to 50 a year but an absolute anchor at 70 which he will be soon.
well yeah because the celtics traded Jaylen Brown for a guy on an even worse contract
Not a worse contract; PG’s is one year shorter and has a lot of value as an expiring contract.
Brown is also eligible for a 2-year extension in a few weeks, and he’s almost certainly going to want (and get) it.
I still don’t like the trade for a variety of reasons, but yeah there’s a huge difference between paying Paul George ~\(55m a year for the next 2 years and paying Jaylen Brown ~\)60m+ a year for the next 5.
You do realize Tatum is in his prime right? Using PG as trade bait as an expiring contract would likely net them nothing of good value just random pieces that haven’t panned out or retreads
I don’t think anyone saying the second thing is actually working in the league unless I’ve missed some quotes. Front office stances on Jaylen seem pretty widely negative (relatively)
Yeah this whole saga has really annoyed me
These arguments are always silly because they’re citing two different groups of people.
That could not be more obvious in this case given the extremely well-publicized divergence in opinion about Brown. The media and many fans love Jaylen Brown (6th in MVP voting, only stat nerds complained), while teams and analytical fans think he’s very overrated.
This is compounded by the fact that Paul George is underrated by casual fans and more appreciated by analytical fans.
(And the first argument is basically a strawman. People aren’t saying there’s no way the Celtics can win. They’re saying this increases their chances of winning in the medium/long term.)
Does Charles Barkley have a history of saying that JB is overpaid?
Or are you just seeing different people with different opinions?
My eyes showed me he was the top guy on a team that was #2 in the east. And a few years ago he was the mvp of the finals, winning a title.
The media and internet are now telling me that was an illusion and didn’t happen.
I guess we will find out.
I mean both things can be true, no? JB makes a ton of money. some might argue he’s worth that contract, but not when you already have another supermax player. So you move him to gain more flexibility but tbh, when we were thinking JB trades, no one was thinking PG and a couple of picks would do the trick. Especially considering this man just had an mvp-esque season.
A tale as old as professional sports
It’s like ChatGPT arguing with itself
TIL Paul George is Asian!
He’s distantly related to Scarlett Johansson.
Wonder if he’s got beef with KD.
PG, probably: “Wtf Kevin, that’s my 4th cousin twice removed bruh.”
Oh … so that’s why he picked his wife … jk jk
I know what he said but now that’s all I can hear lol
And Brad Stevens is over there thinking he just sabotaged the Sixers with Jaylen’s selfish play and massive contract. I can’t wait to see how it all plays out
Selfish play? Two seasons ago, JB was #16 in usage, vs. Tatum at #5… He certainly deferred…
I was speaking from Stevens’ hypothetical perspective, not my own. I do think Tatum is a better playmaker, though
There’s probably a middle ground between “Jaylen Brown was elite” and “Jaylen Brown is a sleeper agent poised to destroy PHI”
For the record, I am a Celtics fan who hated this move. Our fanbase needs to move on and hope we can figure things out, but I was just making a joke
I am not a Celtics fan (closer to a Celtics hater) and I’m kind of indifferent to the move. I think it’s going to be fine, and that it’s way easier to make up what Jaylen brought than people think
Yeah, we’ll get over it. Just a disappointing return for a homegrown player who had a very successful Celtics career. Hopefully it eventually works out.
If anything it just goes to show how shitty the new CBA is. The Celtics are the first team whose timeline lined up to get fucked by having drafted two supermax-worthy guys, which is basically now completely untenable unless it’s like Wemby + Harper level or something
Oh on the emotional level/human level it really sucks. JB seemed like a good community dude, in addition to being a core of the team identity for a decade
Brad didn’t want to trade him. The owners didn’t want to pay him 70 million in the future. Thats all this is.
I don’t if that’s what it is. Chisolm sat there in the press conference with Brad right next to him and said that he had to be convinced to do this deal and that Brad is accountable to him if things should go wrong.
It doesn’t sound like anybody had a gun to Stevens’ head. He said the team would have a hard time winning moving forward with two high usage players making 70% of the cap, and that when they won, Tatum and Brown were only making a combined 47% of the cap.
Somehow Brad never gets the blame, even when he was the coach. I wonder why.
The owners didn’t want to pay $70M in the future because then the rest of the roster is signficantly handicapped
Did the 76’ers killed the Celtics hopes and dreams?
Twice in 2 months, lol
I’m happy Philly did that to Boston but now also hope Philly somehow disappoints yet again next season
The didn’t get away with anything
The Celtics handed them a gun and told the Sixers to shoot them
So did OJ
Didn’t getting away with stealing his own shirts though
Small cutting is the clinical term
Quit your bellyaching .
Just a straight up swap of PG13 for Brown is a 100% upgrade for the Sixers.
On paper yeah of course absolutely no question about it. But it also depends on the role you are willing to give Brown. PG is much better off ball than Brown for example, so the fit alongside Maxey and Embiid can be questionable
It’s not like PG is a great fit for you by that same logic tho?
He doesn’t have the legs for your defense and his shot selection is still too multidimensional for how you want your role players to shoot
I feel like him being a better spot up shooter and making quicker decisions is a good fit for Mazzula but yeah availability and long term efforts on defense will be something to monitor for sure
I’d argue PG right now fits Mazulla ball as a complimentary piece next to Tatum better than Brown does.
Say what you will about his durability, but he definitely has the legs for defense still. His overall creation has definitely fell off which is fine since he’ll be a great spacer.
By game 2 of our series his legs were gone on defense
That’s probably true because of health/availability. But when PG is on the floor, he’s the better player.
The Sixers didn’t get away with murder. Boston voluntarily handed them the weapon.
No they didn’t. We don’t want to pay JB 71 million via an extension. The market was tepid for him.
This is partly why I’d want to see LeBron go to Philly.
It’s never a consideration without this trade. It would just add to the legacy of the Celtics self-implosion all because they wouldn’t give up Hugo Gonzalez for Giannis.
Celtics are still favoured over Philly and have the 4th best championship odds.
And it wasn’t just Hugo Gonzalez, it was additional picks and Baylor as well.
Hypothetically
On paper, you guys should have beat Philly in the playoffs. How did that one go?
Paul George was just too good.
This but unironically
I was only 50% joking.
White, Pritchard, Vuc, Walsh, and Garza combined to shoot 37.3% from the field and 28.3% from three.
Was PG also the primary defender on all of them?
None of those guys are asking for $70 million a year
The Celtics didn’t lose the series because Brown got locked up (arguable at best). They lost because most of the team played terrible.
I have plenty of criticism ready for the other guys (especially DWhite, who has much more responsibility than the rest). But if JB wants to bill himself as this floor-raising MVP candidate, he can’t shit the bed in big moments three years in a row
He really only had two bad games.
And before you go there with the “he shouldn’t have a bad game” - practically every star level player has a bad game or two in the playoffs.
He didn’t shit the bed. The Celtics did.
Three years in a row? Yeah, he was bad in the Knicks series two years ago, sure. But he was good for the most part against Philly and he was your Finals MVP when you won the title three years ago.
yeah and which of JT or JB has been shown to elevate “most of the team” better?
That has nothing to do with the above comment labeling the loss because of PG.
Imagine how much money you could save if you only rostered mid or low level players!
This is my favorite rationalization yet lol. Respect
I’m just saying it’s crazy to call it an implosion.
We need a year to see how it actually plays out.
If LeBron goes to Philly and they win a championship, or even make the finals the media is going to be relentless against the Celtics.
Would be amazing to watch lol
Sixers fans were already punting on the next two seasons before this trade happened…now they are in the running to actually land lebron and have the best starting five in da leaaaaaague
No matter what happens, the media will always be relentless against the Celtics, that’s just how it is. Even when we won the chip, and had one of the most dominant season ever, the narrative was “yeah but they had an easy path so it doesn’t count”
I mean, obviously nothing is guaranteed. If I told you to pick a side in a 60⁄40 shot, which side would you pick?
What does the word ‘odds’ mean in the month of July?
Might also add to the “only one ball” problem.
You don’t know for a fact that the Bucks would have accepted the Celtics offer if Hugo was in. Maybe they were just trying to get more out of the Celtics just so they could use it as leverage to make Miami pay more.
There was no shooting and no murder.
It was a gift. Can’t a GM give another GM a gift! smh
sixers 75 win season incoming
*76
Not sure Barkley really understands all the intricacies of the CBA. Not even sure he saw George and Brown play more than a xouple kf times, actually
oh really? when the Sixers win fewer games than last year let’s revisit this post
I guess we’ll see, but I’d personally be quite surprised if the Sixers don’t outperform how they did last year.
Yeah I mean it’s not like their regular season or playoff performance was anything insane.
They won 45 games and lost in the second round of the playoffs, no real reason to think they won’t be better with JB, aside from an obvious “if healthy” qualifier.
They were pretty mid last year. They probably have a better record next season
They are too stacked. A better prediction is the C’s having similar or better success than last season.
It’s going to hilarious watching the 76er’s bounce the Celtics out of the playoffs next year.
Been elite off ball shooting and full healthy knees in the playoffs embiid season coming lmao 😭
Barkley never holds back, and that’s definitely one way to describe a blockbuster trade. This move is going to be debated for a long time.
the opinions about this trade have shifted a lot during these last days, with more information coming out we saw a lot of people change their opinion, especially in the celtics sub.
Analytics something something.
Watch LeBron sign with Celtics for the vet minimum or some shit
When trades happen, I usually think you had to judge them when they happen, and not wait and see how they pan out. There is a reason, because sometimes things accidentally work out. Sometimes something comes up that you may not know at the like. Someone gets injured. Those don’t really affect how good or bad the trade was because it’s information you didn’t have at the time.
This one is different because the issue is whose information is correct. The questions can really only be answered by seeing what he does in Philly.
I think chuck meant ancient 😂
Charles should keep getting bigger and bigger glasses until someone says something, and then never acknowledge it.
Kiss of death for the Sixers if Charles thinks it was a fleece. We all love Charles but no one believes he understands the CBA.
Feel like the celtics come out on top knowing the history of both teams, we will see!
Reminder that Barkley doesn’t actually watch or even particularly enjoy basketball these days lol.
Those two guys scowl and go “grrrrr” but the other guy smiles and goes “hahaha” so he’s not as good….. basically
You don’t always know what the chef is doing back there, but you gotta have faith he’s cooking you a good meal. Especially when you’re dining at a Michelin star.
Brad is the chef and we are merely his patrons, have some respect and wait for the meal.
I lowkey think this was Brad sending Jaylen to a good contender team because he was forced to trade him by ownership not on his own merit. Because they literally JUST beat them without Tatum lol.
Thanks I really needed Chuck’s opinion that he got from someone else who watches games unlike him
Idc if the Celtics valued JB so bad. The issue here is so many teams values him high and were willing to give more than what the Celtics thinks he’s worth.
What are you talking about? Do you think Brad Stevens willingly took a worse trade offer? This shows that front offices value Jaylen Brown at his contract far lower then fans value Jaylen Brown as a player.