Proposed Jaylen Brown Trade Ideas

[jambr380]

OK, I will keep them coming:

BOS:   Sengun, Capella, Sheppard
HOU:   Brown, Garza

I don't hate the idea of Sengun, but had posted earlier about getting Jabari Smith Jr or Eason. Moranis laid out why he thinks Sheppard would be a better option. Either way it looks like Houston has some solid players to add to Sengun if there is mutual interest.

One of the best things about Sengun is his contract at $35.6M. It's crazy that him and Smith Jr at $23.6M basically equal Jaylen's contract. Both of those contracts on their own look pretty sizable, so that just goes to show how creative you could actually get with trading Jaylen's massive contract.

[keevsnick]

All these ideas that have us swapping Brown for guys roughly as good as him are a no or me. I we are going to trade Brown it has to be or an MVP level guy (like Giannis). All these other trades rely on things like "fit," and I've seen great "fits" blow up enough to know that shouldn't be the driving actor in a trade.

Let me put it a different way. Over the last 40 years only ONE team has won an NBA title without an MVP or DPOY on their team. That was your 2024 Celtics. So if you are going to blow up the core of the one team that's won WITHOUT an MVP/DPOY you better be GETTING an MVP or DPOY in return. Otherwise, you're just spinning a roulette wheel and hoping or magic.

I'd still try to do the Giannis trade WITHOUT Brown first. I'd reluctantly do it with Brown as long as Brown is most o the package. My preference would be get a center and run it back next year.