If it proves tougher than anticipated to shed salaries like Jrue Vacation, Kristaps Porzingis, and so forth., would you take into account transferring Jaylen Brown for picks, younger expertise, and cap area?
Mark Aboyoun
Though I don’t assume Jaylen Brown is untouchable, I don’t assume he shall be moved this 12 months. If you assemble a group like how the Celtics have and figuring out the inevitable penalties, I believe you eliminate the likes of Vacation and Porzingis even should you’re on the dropping finish of the offers. Even when Brown was dealt, I’m undecided the return shall be sufficient to maintain Boston on the prime with an damage susceptible Porzingis and an getting old Vacation who dipped final 12 months with regard to his efficiency and taking pictures proportion.
Ian Inangelo
Jaylen Brown seems like essentially the most untouchable participant out of the core that might be on the transfer however I really feel like Brad Stevens wouldn’t be doing his job if he didn’t at the very least see what’s probably on the market. I really feel prefer it’s an extended shot but when a Giannis to the Celtics commerce develops someway, I really feel like that’s the one means Brown will get traded from Boston until the Mavericks need to commerce the number one choose.
Steve Hooper
I don’t assume Brad and the entrance workplace transfer Jaylen this summer season. A 12 months faraway from an NBA Finals MVP, he’s too invaluable to the franchise alongside Jayson. The supply would actually must be wonderful and blow Brad’s socks off. The Celtics would need to at the very least take again an All- Star stage younger participant and I can’t see that occuring.
Mike Dynon
The NBA at one time arrange a system the place if a participant like Jaylen Brown made an all-NBA group, he’d be assured an much more ginormous subsequent contract than he was already going to obtain. Brown achieved that in 2023 – and shortly afterwards the NBA determined to punish groups which have basically “too many” huge contracts. Someway, the gamers union agreed to this. And since timing is the whole lot, simply when Boston acquired adequate to win all of it, the “second apron” was invented. For a group known as the Celtics, they definitely don’t have a lot luck of the Irish.
I don’t assume JB shall be traded, but when he’s then I hope it’s finished as a final resort for an enormous haul on the commerce deadline. And even then it will fully suck. With Jayson Tatum injured, Brown needs to be the face of the group, the chief, a job he’s proved he can deal with (see the 2024 postseason). Furthermore, he desires to be a Celtic for all times, a Bostonian eternally, and he’s earned that chance. Sure, that’s a sentimental view, which Brad Stevens will little doubt ignore (as he ought to) and do what he believes is finest for the franchise. Nonetheless, if Jaylen Brown have to be dealt due to the NBA’s collective bargaining settlement, will probably be a darkish day in Celtics historical past.
Jake Issenberg
I might solely transfer Jaylen Brown if there’s a mandate from possession to get beneath the second apron and shed wage. Even should you get a haul of younger gamers and picks, the possibilities are none of these belongings flip right into a participant nearly as good as Jaylen Brown. I perceive the challenges of filling out depth across the two supermax contracts of Jaylen and Jayson. However as a result of Jays immense versatility, constructing out depth is less complicated than with different stars. When your two finest gamers can defend a number of positions, and be efficient on and off the ball, it makes Brad Stevens’ job simpler. To not point out Jaylen’s standing as a Celtics legend. I might solely need to transfer Jaylen as part of a real celebrity deal.
Jeff Clark
Like everybody above stated, I don’t finally assume that Jaylen Brown ought to be traded and I don’t need him to be. The one case for it’s if the group merely can’t put collectively a workable product on the ground round two huge salaries with Tatum and Brown taking on a lot of the cap. If their future is to turn out to be just like the Suns this previous 12 months, then I can see a case for breaking it up. Some would possibly argue that it will make extra sense to maneuver Jaylen subsequent summer season after you’ve tried the whole lot else. I might push again and say that I’d slightly transfer one 12 months too early than one 12 months too late (damage danger and all that). That is the summer season the place it looks like numerous groups are able to make franchise altering offers.
It might take so much, however I wouldn’t rule it out.
