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this young bucks don't know nothing about that.
Yeah, boston bit the hand that fed them.
They got greedy for giannis, but got less for jaylen brown in return which humbled them.
Yeah, gansey ain't fucking around.
i can't wait for Oct to come.
Eagles and Sixers is gonna be a party, what a great time to be alive.
LFG.
They love you when your there but hate you when you're gone.
What the Hell Is This Jaylen Brown Trade?
Boston has some explaining to do. The Celtics-76ers blockbuster just doesn’t add up.In the confusing aftermath of a trade that should be recognized as one of the most unnecessary transactions in recent NBA history, one question sits above the rest: Why did the Boston Celtics have to trade Jaylen Brown?
Not even two weeks ago, this team was a finalist to acquire Giannis Antetokounmpo. Brown was the headliner in Boston’s offer, but the rest of the admittedly thin proposal contained just two first-round picks. This was fine and made sense. Giannis is better than Brown but comes with his own set of risks—not wanting to mortgage your future to get him is perfectly understandable. But after the Milwaukee Bucks went in a different direction, the Celtics believed, for some reason, that a bridge was burned. Boston apparently couldn’t repair a relationship that had already been through years of trade rumors; this was, a bit too conspicuously, the straw that broke the camel’s back. Brad Stevens responded by canvassing the league, scrambling to find an acceptable package before ultimately settling on an astonishing deal that will send Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks, and two second-round picks.
This is a deeply strange turn of events for myriad reasons. To put it in context: The haul is objectively worse than what the Los Angeles Clippers just received for Kawhi Leonard, a frequently injured 35-year-old currently under investigation for allegedly taking part in a cap circumvention scheme. I say this not to chastise Leonard but to point out how absurdly low the return was for a younger, more dependable forward who just averaged career highs in points, rebounds, and assists for a 56-win team that … was eliminated in the first round by Philadelphia. Yes, for those counting at home, Boston might have gone out of its way to enhance the division rival who knocked it out of the playoffs in shocking, humiliating fashion a few months ago.
Now, it’s technically possible that we’ll see the Celtics land a top pick in the 2028 draft or, sooner than later, package that valuable asset with others they currently own to grab a talent who can nudge them closer to another Finals appearance. But it still feels like the Celtics negotiated from a position of weakness, desperate to divorce themselves from one of the 10-ish best players in the world. Why? What motivated Boston to move on from a beloved 29-year-old Finals MVP and franchise mainstay whose jersey will one day hang in TD Garden’s rafters?
Let’s allow speculation to run wild for a moment. Did Jayson Tatum give Boston’s front office an ultimatum? Was Brown’s personality that corrosive on a daily basis? Did new Celtics owner Bill Chisholm tell Stevens to save even more money than he already has? Brown has roughly $70 million more left on his contract than George does. Back in September, Chisholm said, “My goal and my high-level direction to Brad and the team is let’s do whatever we can to win championships and raise banners and raise as many as we can, both in the near term and also in the medium to the long term as well.” Cool, cool, cool.
Or, using Occam’s razor, is this trade as simple as Boston thinking it can still be a contender without Brown and choosing to add a couple of draft picks rather than pay him a ton of money to function as its second-best player? We all know what the advanced impact metrics say, and it’s common knowledge that Boston was better on both ends when Brown sat on the bench last season. I have a hard time believing that’s it, though.
Brown and Tatum have excelled together on the biggest stage. Why break them up on the hunch that (a healthy) George should be able to fulfill the same responsibilities with a more agreeable disposition? Why not trade Brown last summer, tank, and hope for some luck at the lottery in a draft that was loaded with franchise-altering prospects?
Flexibility is a fair enough objective, and, based on everything we saw Joe Mazzulla squeeze out of his club last year, this trade won’t necessarily keep the Celtics from competing for a championship next season. If Tatum is at full strength, they will be a large and physical defensive menace that may have the best offense in the NBA. Internal growth from untouchable pieces like Hugo Gonzalez and Baylor Scheierman will be helpful. Derrick White, Payton Pritchard, and Sam Hauser know what it takes to win it all. Prying Mitchell Robinson away from the New York Knicks with the mid-level exception is the type of move made by an organization that wants to win it all and believes it can.
Glass half full: George is available, fits with Boston’s existing core, and continues to be a better 3-point shooter than Brown ever was. The nine-time All-Star drilled 45.4 percent of his spot-up attempts in his final year with the Clippers, 38 percent in his first year with the Sixers, and 41.7 percent last season. On a Celtics team that is built to fire away from the outside and loaded with very good outside shooters, he’ll have the greenest light of his career and, arguably, the most space to operate inside the arc.
All of this is true, but light-years away from the point. George is almost seven years older than Brown. This decade, Jaylen has played 111 more games than PG. Last year, he generated 16 more points per game with a slightly higher true shooting percentage. After a couple of disappointing postseasons that were partially caused by poorly timed cold spells behind the 3-point line, the Celtics ostensibly entered this summer looking to diversify their attack and become an offense that can put more pressure on the rim. This trade, in a vacuum, makes that goal significantly harder to achieve. (Last year, George attempted only 2.9 shots at the rim per 100 possessions and shot 55.9 percent from there. Brown finished at 6.9 attempts and shot 69.1 percent.)
Now, it must be said that George outplayed Brown head-to-head in meaningful stretches of Boston’s most recent playoff meltdown. He isn’t that far removed from his last All-Star appearance and could conceivably turn back the clock on a team that won’t demand too much from him on either side of the ball. George’s contract has become an abomination, but he’s still a very good NBA player.
The Celtics have sturdy infrastructure, championship experience, exceptional coaching, depth at every position, shooting, and talent. They won’t enter next season with talk of a gap year hanging over their heads. Expectations will be a lot higher, with movable assets and a giant trade exception to build upon what’s already there. But would Boston be closer to the title right now if, um, Jaylen Brown were still on the team? In the near future, at least, it’s a question that will follow this franchise every single day.
What the Hell Is This Jaylen Brown Trade?
Boston has some explaining to do. The Celtics-76ers blockbuster just doesn’t add up.
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The Jaylen Brown Trade Is a Meteor to the Eastern Conference
Not even the Sixers could have seen this Brown deal coming. Where do they stand now in a beautifully muddled landscape?Before a star changes teams in the NBA, they typically spend years on whiteboards and spreadsheets in their eventual home, first as an idea, then as a target, and finally as a plan of action. Assets have to be pooled. Salary must be cleared. The very concept needs to be floated through whispers and back channels, focus tested by the reps and advisers who circle every All-NBA talent. These things take time, to the point that when someone like Giannis Antetokounmpo finally does get traded to the Miami Heat, it happens after a half decade of legwork, if not more.
And then there’s whatever the hell just happened with Jaylen Brown. The Philadelphia 76ers might be as surprised as anyone to find the former Celtic on their roster, fresh off the best season of his basketball career. Brown had clearly been available on the trade market, but he was available to Philadelphia only because of the plans upon plans upon plans that fell through. In the end, it wasn’t Antetokounmpo or Kawhi Leonard or some haul of young talent that pried Brown out of Boston. It was Paul George, who’s carrying one of the most bloated contracts in the league, and a few underwhelming draft picks. The Celtics must have aspired for more than scooping a few measly first-rounders off the floor in exchange for one of their franchise players, but they also apparently decided on Wednesday night that the urgency to move Brown outweighed the desire for anything resembling fair value.
Given how quickly the market turned, Philly didn’t turn itself into a landing spot for Brown so much as it just became one. This opportunity was too tantalizing for the Sixers to pass up, so far above and beyond the kind of player they would otherwise be able to acquire. And with that turn of events comes the work of now incorporating one of the league’s top scorers into a complex roster that already had plenty of moving parts. Tyrese Maxey, like Brown, is coming off an All-NBA season after driving his own team for the first time. VJ Edgecombe is bursting with the kind of potential that demands to be stoked and fed. Joel Embiid looms large, as both one of the most purely talented players in the sport and a walking existential crisis for a franchise that has tried to rely on him but can’t.
The success of these Sixers will likely come down to the way they balance insistence and accommodation. They’re hardly lacking for collective ability; all four of Philly’s cornerstones are three-level scorers, an absurd luxury that no other team can match. The Sixers already had one relentless driver in Maxey, but Brown doubles down on that strength, matching Maxey’s pure stop-and-go speed with a physical, punishing attack. Few opponents will have defenders cut out to handle both, and even fewer will also be able to account for Embiid’s scoring binges. Those that somehow manage to batten down the hatches will likely leave themselves exposed to Edgecombe picking on their worst perimeter defender.
And that’s why you call a trade like this into the league office as fast as you can and figure out the rest as you go. Brown isn’t without his quirks, and his contract—which will pay out $185 million over the next three seasons—has a way of electrifying every conversation around him. Swapping out George—who played more of a utility role for the Sixers—for Brown will be a shock to Philly’s system. Something will have to give between Maxey’s rising stardom, Embiid’s on-ball dominance, and the go-to role Brown flourished in last season. Part of the reason Brown is now in Philly is because of his unmistakable ambition, but Maxey is too good to sidetrack his own progression in leading a team. It’s easy to say that Embiid should take a back seat to both given his struggles to stay healthy, but he doesn’t really know any other way to play; when he isn’t featured like a star, Embiid often just stands around on the perimeter like a vestige of an era gone by.
But who are the Sixers to turn down the challenges that come with adding one of the best players in the league? When he’s hyper-motivated and ready to use every possession as an opportunity to embarrass his former team? How could they pass up a title-validated, two-way star in his prime for the sake of a roster that so definitively was not in the same class as the Knicks? Jaylen Brown has crashed into this Sixers team like a meteor. Figuring out what to do with the space rock is the kind of challenge that can reinvigorate a franchise.
Particularly when the Eastern Conference more broadly is already in a state of such incredible flux. The Knicks are the most stable contender by far—but even they lost a valued rotation piece in Mitchell Robinson, to the now reimagined Celtics. Boston might be the single most difficult contender to pin down, and that’s before accounting for whatever other moves it might make with the draft picks it acquired for Brown. Toronto accelerated its plans by going back to the future with Kawhi. The Heat are vying for more than the play-in for the first time in years, and the Pacers will be squarely back in the mix. The 60-win Pistons have reshuffled their lineup; the Hawks have picked up a few pieces out of the bargain bin; and the Cavs haven’t made any moves of note yet, but LeBron could change that in a heartbeat and give the East yet another jolt.
That’s nine teams that are probably convinced they’re going to end up in the top six, to say nothing of the Magic or Hornets. What a beautifully muddled mess the East has become. If the cost of the NBA’s current parity is that it makes it more difficult for the Celtics to keep an expensive star like Brown, the payoff is that trading him away has unstuck the Sixers and turned them into a real factor in the East. Getting off of George’s contract was its own miracle. Turning George into a player of Brown’s caliber was a possibility beyond comprehension.
No matter what becomes of the Sixers, this is a reality-bending, precedent-obliterating move. Bizarre. Unheard of. The trade machine is overheating as we speak with the most preposterous deals imaginable, because even weeks upon weeks of trade speculation failed to produce a return package this meager for Brown. No amount of planning can compare with the windfall of being a team in the right place at the right time.
The Jaylen Brown Trade Is a Meteor to the Eastern Conference
Not even the Sixers could have seen this Brown deal coming. Where do they stand now in a beautifully muddled landscape?
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Right. Fuck em’.
Bum
Love it. Especially the fact that the Sixers still own their own 1st round pick for next year. Those 1st round picks that went with George came from the Harden deal.
No offense but you two might be twins.
Because don’t you do the same thing?
The second a player leaves the Heat it’s
Gansey was smart to not give up that draft pick for next years draft.Love it. Especially the fact that the Sixers still own their own 1st round pick for next year. Those 1st round picks that went with George came from the Harden deal.
I just hope all this will be worth it at the end!
I'm excited with all the moves gansey made so far.
What an exciting time to be a sixers fan!
LFG
Everybody who’s a Sixers fan likes the trade!
Shit the Sixers would’ve traded Broken P for cheese on a hamburger, but they traded and got Jaylen Brown so they’re happy as fuck!
I was critical of Jaylen Brown’s play at times. That’s how the job works.
The stuff is such nonsense. He was never a locker room problem. The whole “He might be too smart for basketball” stuff has dogged him his whole career and always been dumb. Yeah, he’s a smart guy who has outside interests. Never felt it impacted him on the court. There are lots of hours in the day to do lots of things.
Also, most scouts aren’t even around tea
Who I do that to?No offense but you two might be twins.
Because don’t you do the same thing?
The second a player leaves the Heat it’s
Come on Bruvs, the minute players leave the Heat you forget all about them.
They’re now your rivals, like Bron
I’m shocked that you still like that ex-Cav and ex-Bull Wade
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