The Pelicans will be asking for Jayson Tatum, not Jaylen Brown.
Doesnt matter
They cant get everything
yeah what are the pelicans going to trade Davis for if they don’t get Tatum? We don’t need to outbid ourselves we just need to outbid the Lakers.
Even if no other teams were interested, to outbid the Lakers Tatum will have to be included unless that Sacto pick strikes gold (like #2 pick gold).
I'm not so sure. What do the Lakers actually have to offer? They don't own any other picks than their own.
The Lakers have a couple of highly drafted players (Ball, Ingram), who so far are unable to fulfil their promise. Hart and Zubac are nice prospects, but also haven't proven much. Kuzma is their best trading chip, but he's also the guy that the Lakers would want to keep.
I have no objection to include Tatum in the deal over Brown, since that can save us some assets, but I don't believe it's necessary. In fact Brown might be a better trading chip than whatever the Lakers have.
Even if the Lakers desperately offer Ball, Hart, Ingram, Kuzma, Zubac + unprotected picks: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, the Celtics could still top that offer. Though you probably shouldn't.
I'm really confident that the Celtics will trade for Davis. My concerns are primarily whether Ainge is prepared to let Horford, Hayward or Smart go as salary filler, or that Davis tells us that he won't resign in Boston. The Pelicans could stubbornly send Davis to LA if they don't get everything they want from us, but they don't want to help the Lakers either.