Andrew Tate x Trae Young

I mean the Celtics basically salary dumped him. That seems more damning than anything that came from anonymous sources.

Oh wow a former player saying people who never played shouldn’t comment on sports 😴

Players attempting to gatekeep analysis to those who played is so funny to me. What a waste of energy.

“So yeah, he has a stream and he does all this other stuff, and he is very outspoken and that can ruffle feathers or scare teams from what I’m hearing for whatever reason”

Lmao did he just drop in an anonymous source in a rant complaining about anonymous sources?

I wonder how often the tag of “anonymous” carries more weight than if the person had their actual name published

He was dumped by his team and there was no bidding war. That should be enough.

People keep framing bad statistical arguments as “analytics” and then frame everyone who disagrees with them as being against numbers. Most people aren’t anti analytics but they are against people who don’t understand basketball enough to see the inherent flaws in certain arguments making points

i get distrusting the anonymous sources

but when a guy like brad steven’s trades him to their conference rival who just embarrassed them in the playoffs

and that was the best offer they could get

idk, maybe the league is actually saying that 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Why is everyone getting so triggered by statistics being used to confirm what Celtics haters/anyone with functioning eyes were saying already for 3+ years? I genuinely do not get this. I remember during the championship playoff run people were talking about how much worse the Celtics looked when Brown was allowed to have the ball in his hands too much.

The blind lights in Austin’s video causin anyone else’s phone brightness to screw up?

The anonymous source is Basketball Reference lol.

WS/48 is clearly where the “7th best player on the Celtics last season” claim came from

Players sound like such moronic, insecure losers whenever anyone outside of players talks about basketball.

“No you dont play bball so you dont get to have opinions. Tell me who is talking about it so I can beat them up!” Such drama queens

“I’m not saying his intelligence, um, is easy to manage on a day-to-day basis.”

That’s such a roundabout way of talking about how smart / dumb JB is lol.

The irony of a basketballer raging against people who don’t know basketball stepping into the news and information world and not understanding the importance of anonymous sources is genuinely hilarious.

‘His intelligence is not easy to manage on a day to day basis.’ Lol what the fuck does that mean?? I really cannot stand Austin Rivers, man. Worst play-by-play guy I have ever heard. 

This was the same stupid argument Phil Jackson would use to discredit Pop and his team after their first championship. How are we still saying stupid shit like this????

I’ll put my name on it. I think he stinks!

Everything I hear from this guy is against my will. He always this insufferable?

Man really wants the

He’s overrated as fuck - Brad “quote me” Stevens

with a dad like his he should know better than most that even if people play ball it doesn’t mean they KNOW ball.

It’s those anonymous statistics that are out to get him

Am I the only one who sees “Austin Reaves” instead of “Austin Rivers” every time one of these is posted and wonders why Reaves keeps talking about other players? Before remembering “oh yeah… Austin Rivers still exists and is still desperate for attention”

imma keep it 100 i didn’t hear what he said but i think it’s really funny how some people think there’s a conspiracy going on, that some data analysts math guys have a grudge against brown and are using numbers to make him look bad.

Some of these dudes need to take basic communications and journalism classes.

Stop giving this moron a platform, people

This video is weeks old I swear

Nepo baby doesn’t like analytical evaluation of merit. Shocker.

Cannot bring myself to listen to this dude, his NOLA years were some of the worst professional basketball I’ve ever seen and I refused to watch any team he was on after that, except the Clips for a couple seasons.

Saying what will get him traction on social media.

What did Erik Spo say?

I get why players would be upset, but this is how journalism works

Free nice PR.

It is very weird how suddenly it was “bash on Jaylen Brown” time from all angles even though he’d just had an awesome season on paper. I’m not surprised Jaylen got pissed off.

Having said that, you guys can downvote me for this but it’s never a good look when the players go after fans or the media for not being professional athletes. The whole marketing of the game is based around making those people care about it even though they’re not playing.

If he had stayed more than one year at Duke like he should have, maybe he would have had time to take a journalism class

Smear campaign. I see what you did there, Austin

Jaylen Brown was a final Mvp and dragged his team this past year to exceed expectations this past season but the narrative makes you think he’s some role player

twerps is back on the menu. twerps doing hooliganism and tomfoolery. Malarkey!!

Anonymous sources are a fancy way of saying off the record gossip.

My biggest issue with anonymous source in NBA gossip and trade talks, is originally idea of anonymous sources is to protect people from people in power that are subject of the article or piece that could give out retribution or attack them, like the aspiration employees with balmer case.

In this situation shams and windhorst etc are quoting “anonymous sources” with no evidence or paper trail to proof their qoutes or claims, for all we know this could be made up there is no way to tell if these are real qoutes or fake, and since there no person attributed their is no party that would come forward to deny them, maybe it’s bit cynical but in the state of journalism and ethics we are in as a society we should ask more from people delivering news than just qoutes without any receipts or information (aspiration employees qoutes were backed up by paper trail and text messages and information), especially when though they are millionaires these hit pieces/qoutes literally can damage a player reputation not only for brand but on their legacy in the City or community.

Yea the Jaylen hate campaign has been pretty ridiculous. We get it he’s flawed and has a huge contract but he’s not Smush Parker.

Shmear campaign. They took his cream cheese away.

Sure sounds like he knows who they are by the description (that doesnt match anyone on any coaching staff or on a GM level), but conveniently arent naming them either. And whos the one being a hypocrite or talking out of their ass?

And we are still doing this thing where no matter what do its an issue.

If nothing comes out about the trade and the return: have no reasoning behind it.

If give reason after: it’s a smear campaign.

If does it while equally trying to deal with BTS while on team: it’s equally an issue (Myles Turner pod/KD burner). 🤷‍♀️

Equally proving why takes doing anonymously as people have unhinged attachement to strangers and put too much weight on insider reports to be this pissed about it when…meaningless. No one in Philly will change mind about buying their ticket or his jersey based on this “smear campaign”. Nor does it change him getting his absurd cheque from the team.

And, again with the meaningless “you never touched a ball” argument that just makes the one saying it look bad and like they have no actual counterargument…

I’m so tired of this discourse man. He wasn’t worth his salary. That’s all it was. Can we all stop talking about it.

People with no experience or education in broadcasting should not be allowed to podcast or join TV networks. Am I doing this right?

Austin rivers looks like he’s watch a few too many movies and needs to take a break

If Jaylen Brown is so great, how come none of the other 28 teams could put together an offer better than the dogshit-in-a-plastic-bag offer that the Celtics accepted from their rival?

It doesn’t mean the anonymous sources aren’t right . Boston front office is not considered a stupid front office and if they were having a fire sale on Brown and Trading him to a division rival, it is an indictment on Brown.And if all front offices didn’t want him that tells u a lot about. That he’s way over paid . I don’t think Brad Steven’s just hit his head and became a stupid basketball gm.

And yes it was a salary cap saving maneuver more than anything because all teams are getting under the second apron because it’s punitive in how it punishes teams. Knicks won’t go over the second apron that so that should tell u everything because while Dolan is an asshole no one has ever called him cheap.

Why does this guy have a platform. He sucks. Nepo baby

I’m not reading all that nor do we care what Austin Rivers thinks about anything. This is the same as caring about Ja Rule’s opinion during a time of crisis.

These stare into the camera talking to no one videos are so weird to me

It’s mostly the usual suspects that hate for the truth to be revealed. Zios are evil.

Kurt Vonnegut defined a twerp as someone who, “bites the bubbles of his own farts in a bathtub.”

Draymond was right about this guy. What a dunce

Dammit I thought it was another Draymond Green response

I don’t blame for saying sources should be cited but what does not playing in the nba have to do it with it lol

Given that guys like Devin Booker, Trae Young, and now Donovan Mitchell have really high contracts and haven’t accomplished what JB has the Celtics really wanted to move that massive contract and/or they really didn’t like him.

He wants the analytics to be wrong and they want him to be wrong but the truth is somewhere in the middle really.

Playing the game is different than analyzing the game in that you do not need the playing experience to understand when someone should not be the guy/is not capable but you also need to play in order to understand certain nuances of the game which translate into winning but are not analytically measurable.

I agree that we have too many analytics bros in basketball and the NBA as a whole but to me they’re just as damaging as the broken aau system is on the development of players and there are alot of former players who are contributing to making that system worse/not get any better.

Brown was salary dumped but the reasons behind it dont really add up and at the same time its on the Celtics and Brad Stevens who signed Brown to that massive contract he was mever going to live up to and now they want to use whatever excuse to blame for their own failure as a team.

There was legitimate reason to dump him but people are taking unnecessary shots at him for no reason and nothing was more apparent at that than the comment about his intelligence. 2 things can be true at the same time

The Celtics massively overpaid on that extension and everyone knew it from jump. JB is exactly the player we thought he would be for the duration of this contract, which again brings me back to the point that everyone knew this was a bad deal for Boston. The leaks have always felt, imo, like a front office trying to cover their asses. This is just what happens when teams sign players to bad contracts and I’m not convinced there’s much JB could have done to avoid this outcome.

Boston looked at their future salary spreadsheet and decided that although Brown is a good player, he didn’t have the impact of a Jokic or an SGA while getting paid like them, so decided to trade him for a combination of future draft assets and a pretty good role player whose contract is a year shorter. You can agree or disagree with this strategy, but it’s really not all that difficult to understand. The twenty eight GMs outside of the Celtics and the 76ers decided not to offer more than what Boston got for him, so if you hate this trade you have to ask why those 28 GMs didn’t offer more for a guy you personally think is more valuable than his market value seems to indicate he is.

I wonder why no one gives Austin Rivers a GM role

Who said he was a disease?

“Twerp” is a good, old fashioned banger of an insult and I’m happy to see it deployed in 2026.

I don’t get how it’s a “smear campaign” if the Celtics shopped him around the league and the best return they could get was Paul George and a couple picks.

Whether or not you agree with that being representative of Brown’s true value as a player, clearly other GMs do agree with that, regardless of what any of us think about it.

That’s funny coming from Austin Rivers.

For a guy who got his biggest contract from his father he sure does talk a lot

Austin Rivers is sick of the schmear campaign, damnit!