stages of grief lol

Literally says “I wish they didn’t do it” right in front of your fucking face and he says he doesn’t agree with idea and people in the this sub are talking about Bills “copium” and him being a homer.

Still using that stock photo of Bill is giving real estate agent vibes

Jaylen Brown is better basketball player than Paul George for 2026, its not really close. 76ers fans were thrilled to get out of the George contract.

Injecting copium into his eyeballs at this point lmao

How is it cope to explain the possible reasoning of management while also bring very critical of the trade? Nuance is truly dead, huh

The Celtics cope has been fucking absurd in this sub. 40 games of 36 year old Paul George is not the answer for this team lol

Still crazy that Paul George is on the celtics

Now he’s trying to ram Paul George up other people’s asses

Celtics fan here to take abuse. As someone who watches pretty much every game, I’m glad we moved Brown.

Brown is a good basketball player who has had so many great moments in Boston but he’s just not a good fit for the team.

His stats are objectively not very good. He’s not a good shooter or rebounder or passer, he just wants to get downhill and take some kind of shot every time he gets his hands on the ball and that isn’t what Mazzulla wants and it doesn’t work as the co-star with Tatum.

And of course the contract. If you still think it wasn’t the contract you need to read up on it more.

And I totally agree with Simmons here. Tatum has quietly evolved into one of the most complete players in the league. The stats he was putting up before the injury and when he came back are jokic light stats. Having someone like him taking turns with someone as inefficient as Brown is maddening to watch as a fan.

And Brown’s stupid podcast crap and other questionable things he’s involved in. The Celtics want no part of that.

My prediction: Celtics win 60 games, Tatum finishes higher in the mvp race than he ever has, the team manages PG’s minutes masterfully and he’s there for us in the playoffs to play elite 3 and D

Tatum needs a podcaster, not a streamer.

Bill has always been a crazy homer but ranking Drake Maye as QB4 and calling JB the 4th option on the Sixers has been so crazy. This summer has broken the sports guy’s brain.

Why is this so hard to believe that the Celtics FO just doesn’t want to overpay JB because they don’t trust a Tatum & Brown duo as their main guys? No one in their right mind thinks PG is better than JB, but from Brad’s perspective I understand the idea that they went with : Tatum gets more usage, PG slides as a 3&D wing for this season, the young wings get more playtime, Pritchard gets time as the 2nd option, and the following season they’ll move PG plus whatever draft capital they have for an available star to pair with Tatum.

Hearing shitty audio BS is such a throwback

He still hasn’t slept

They wanted to get off Brown’s contract

That’s it, that’s the entire basis for this

It’s pretty simple. They knew thay JT and JB both under monster extensions essentially closes the championship window

They didn’t really save money by trading him so much as they saved a year of paying it. They were also willing to get Giannis so they clearly don’t mind two max players.

They way the trade came together so fast it leads me to believe they simply thought, for whatever reason, they had to trade Brown immediately. Maybe he was upset at being involved in the Giannis deal, or something with he and Tatum, or maybe the Celtics just thought one of those things would be a problem. But you can’t tell me that trade search was extensive, and you can’t tell me that they couldn’t have simply waited unless there was some external deadline we don’t know about. Because the Sixers absolutelyake this deal at the deadline (or even next year) and we don’t even get Bron in that scenario.

I can tell 99% of the commenters didn’t watch the clip.

Paul george is the perfect analytics player, plays Hard D, shoots 3s or passes.

He won’t seek out his own offence or try to take over the game like he used to. Legit another ideal wing type player who gon be off the books in 2 years

This isn’t even a lukewarm take lol

Brad doesn’t want two main offensive guys sharing creation anymore and PG is better at the secondary stuff than Jaylen Brown. He’s not going to replace JB, he’s going to play an OG/Mikal role.

“I wish they didn’t do it” in bold letters and people in this sub still refusing to read more than the title.

I’ll never understand why lots of people on this sub are so quick to jump on Bill Simmons for every statement he makes. He’s never came across to me as someone who takes themselves seriously so I don’t get why everyone else does.

Also nice ellipsis OP.

Maybe this guy who is significantly worse in nearly every single measurable statistic will fit in better.

No it was all about the money / cap. PG was the best they could get. If they could’ve got a cheaper or better player than PG they would’ve

Nah, it was the CBA. It’s all about the money, everything else is decoration.

What podcast is this on?

Simmons trying to talk himself into this deal is funny. File this away because in 5 years time he’ll be blasting Stevens for this trade.

Traded a wing for a wing so the other wings could play more

“8th best player on the roster”

“Made the team worse”

“No other team wanted him”

There’s always the chance that PG does more ketamine this off season and opened his third eye fully and becomes prime Kawhi on defense and shoots 45% from 3 on 10 shots a game

At this point, I’ve finally processed it. My theory is that you can interpret last season two ways - one is that we were the 2 seed without our best player, and the other is that we lost in the first round to an underwhelming opponent and it didn’t really feel fluky.

My guess is the organization viewed it closer to the latter. Bottom-line, they didn’t think we were as close to a championship last year as the media/Vegas/fans did, and they didn’t think they were going to make up that gap with Jaylen taking up 35% of the cap. So, yeah, they reset, maybe thinking that they could take this year as a gap year and figure out who they are post-Jays and hopefully trade George as an expiring next year (or, who knows, maybe he’s a more valuable contributor than people expect, but it’s a year shorter and he’s not expecting an extension).

My biggest question is “Why the rush?” It just seems unlikely this was a return they were happy with, and Jaylen has 3 years on his deal. Hold onto him and see if you can get something better at the deadline or something.

I dunno… I hate it because I would rather ride it out with Jaylen and take more imperfect shots. But, I can’t deny that I agree somewhat with the idea that we were more the team that lost in the first round than the team that was a 2 seed.

ROFL. Imagine if the Bills traded Scottie Pippen after two finals and was like we wanted our young wings to play more.

I can see how one could think the fit is better. Paul George is better off ball

If Paul George plays more than 41 games I’ll be astonished

Seeing Celtics get the better end of almost every trade, as a Celtics hater it’s refreshing to see them fumble one this hard

More Hugo

This take is delulu. There’s no justifying this trade other than to get rid of Brown

Brad Stevens told everyone why they made this trade and it has nothing to do with Paul George’s fit. It’s to have more flexibility to do stuff later. If PG plays well and contributes that’s good but not the point.

Who is he trying to convince, us or himself? They already said why they did it, it was cause they didn’t want 75% of the cap tied up in two players. Brad Stevens already said so. George comes off the books then they have the freedom to do what they want. It’s that simple. It wasn’t a basketball decision.

Welcome to Bargaining, Bill

At this point I gotta believe Tatum is just extremely jealous of the Finals MVP Jalen won.

Simmons and Boston PR working OVERTIME

PG a better fit with JT? Man JT and JB already won a chip together wasn’t that the best fit already? They trippin

They won a championship together, why did the fit need to be improved at all

The Boston copium has been incredible this off-season. Here for it!

Is there any possibility that Jaylen Brown ends up being a better player/have a better career than Tatum when it’s all said and done?

I feel like it’s possible but it’s kind of hard for me to imagine how the rest of their careers would turn out. Kind of interesting to think about.

Brad Stevens’ “vision”

yeah bill. you don’t actually believe this.

i wanna see you cope and be tormented by this team dynamics, bill.