People are wild. Even if you don't want Brown on the team you still sign him to the contract. People get upset that we let TPEs and 15th spots on the roster go unused. Can you imagine letting our 2nd best asset go, but still being over the cap? Sign him and trade him later if you are in the anti Brown camp.
Personally I love Brown. He has the fire in his belly that more on our team need.
See how Washington is doing. Trading Beal for a younger star makes sense.
But is the market there to actually do that?
Beal and Brown are very similar.
If Beal was 2-3 inches taller, 2-3 years younger, and known as a good defender, yeah I think his market would be pretty good.
You're exactly underlining my point. Three years ago Beal was almost NBA scoring leader (only Curry scored more), an All Star and made an All NBA team. His market was excellent. Lots of proposals on this forum as well about breaking the bank to supply Tatum his co-star in Beal.
Three years later those discussions have dried out and the first thing people take into consideration when talking about Beal is his big contract. Now lack of team success is a contributor as well to that drop in value. And as long as Tatum stays on the team the Celtics will be a big factor in playoff-basbetball, but don't assume a player's success to automatically continue just because he has the right age.
In fact I'd argue that Brown's trading value will never be higher than it is right now. So if Celtics management believes the current combo of players isn't ideal for winning a championship they should strongly consider to partner Tatum up with a superstar who can provide different qualities like playmaking or interior presence.
I'm not saying it's an easy decision because then there will be extra moves to be made to balance out the roster, but it's the path I'd choose. And I'm thinking about Lillard.
I love Haliburton (but I don't believe the Pacers would be interested to trade Haliburton for Brown in any capacity).
This just obviously isn't true. Here's the problem with trading Jaylen now: His contract.
He has one year left on his deal, a fact which itself diminishes his value somewhat. Small market teams just can't take the chance of shelling out major assets for a guy who has no reason to stay after his contract expires.
And its REALLY hard to see him agreeing to an extension after he's traded, because any team acquiring him has the same issue the Celtics do: His contract makes him hard to extend. The NEW CBA makes it easier to offer him a contract somewhere around his max, but there's language in the CBA that forces you to carry over an incentives in a players contract into an extension. Jaylen has quite a few incentives. You can lessen those incentives, but in effect unless THAT RULE has also been changed Jaylen will not be able to sign a true max 100% guaranteed contract until he reaches free agency. And even if he could, why would he? Unless he suffers a career ending injury next year he's 100% getting a max contract when he becomes a free agent because scoring rings are extremely rare. Why sign early?
That's why this All-NBA was so important, it bypasses all the normal extension language and just lets the Celtics offer a full five years anywhere between 30% and 35% of the cap. There's no real reason for Jaylen to say no. Even if he didn't want to be here he could simply request a trade in a year.
But he can't sign the supermax if he's traded, that's off the table. All that means he almost certainly wont sign an extension to any team he's traded too which tanks your ability to get value for him.
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