The Boston Celtics could move quickly on a Jaylen Brown trade decision due to the kind of offer the Portland Trail Blazers might have up their sleeve. Local media personality Danny Marang believes the Trail Blazers are working a package around Shadeon Sharpe, Scoot Henderson and Jerami Grant. He added that the $4.2 billion franchise (value per Forbes) could part ways with “any/all draft capital.”
“What’s been expressed to me – as it pertains to a Jaylen Brown deal – I don’t expect Deni/Clingan/Camara would be in those talks,” Marang wrote on X on Saturday. “Grant/Sharpe/Henderson and any/all draft capital – that’s the pot I believe they’re working with.”
It’s unclear if Boston would be excited about Sharpe or Henderson as much, given that the former lottery picks haven’t proven themselves yet. However, Grant could be a decent pick-up. The main thing would be the draft picks. If the Celtics can secure all of the Trail Blazers’ available tradeable picks, it would be a massive win.
The Trail Blazers can trade four of their own picks between 2027 and 2033. They also hold the three Bucks’ first-round picks from 2028 to 2030, which are more valuable now that Milwaukee is in a rebuild.
Boston doesn’t benefit from holding onto such a stockpile of draft assets. But it can build one of the deepest teams around Jayson Tatum, similar to what the Oklahoma City Thunder have done around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or the New York Knicks around Jalen Brunson.
Jaylen Brown claps back at report as NBA analytics person says he’s the 7th-best player on a team
Jaylen Brown has dominated the NBA trade rumor mill, but on Saturday, he was directly in the spotlight for clapping back at a report that claimed analytics show he’s the seventh-best player on a team.
ESPN’s Bobby Marks reported that there were “mixed feelings” about him among rival teams because of analytics.
Brown responded to the report on X, saying:
“Analytics nowadays used to discredit and control narratives – Roll the ball out none of these guys better than me on both ends who does he work for.”
Brown dropped three more tweets. He cited boasting the best combined regular-season and playoff record for any player since his NBA debut (191-80), claimed that analytics have ruined the game, and in his third post, demanded that Marks reveal his source after the ESPN analyst defended himself.
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