Additional details on Jaylen Brown trade, per @sam_amick, @byjayking:
- Trade "not driven by finances"
- Blazers' analytics view Brown as a "negative player"
- One current GM doesn't view Brown as a top-50 player in the league
- Celtics believe all four picks received will be valuable whether kept or used in trades
- Boston questioned whether Brown would buy in to re-accepting a smaller role alongside Jayson Tatum
- Celtics thought Brown went "off script" too often during playoff series loss to Sixers
After sitting here watching NBA free agency this year and overall NBA movement over the past 2 years somebody has to say it....
The new CBA was sold as parity, but the first and second apron are starting to function like a hard cap on player value, team continuity, and player movement.
Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.
This isn’t about players not understanding business. It’s the opposite. We understand that the NBA is a business. That’s why the @TheNBPA has to operate with elite business acumen, elite negotiating strategy, and real foresight.
The owners and the league walk into these meetings with killers that continue to run circles around us time and time again with elite lawyers, economists, cap experts, media strategists, and long term business operators. Players deserve a PA that is just as sharp, just as prepared, and just as aggressive about protecting our upside.
Too often, it feels like players are informed after the fact instead of being truly educated and empowered before decisions are made. That cannot continue.
The next CBA is a do or die moment for us as players. It's only going to get worse for us. We need transparency, accountability, and a serious re evaluation of who is representing us and how they are representing us.
This is not anti parity. This is pro player, fan, and product. The league is strongest when players are valued properly, great teams can stay together, and the people representing us are operating at the same level as the people sitting across the table.
LeBron James is expected to choose his next team from these six franchises, per @ShamsCharania:
• Cavaliers
• Heat
• Nuggets
• Sixers
• Timberwolves
• Warriors
The Milwaukee Bucks are waiving forward Pete Nance, league sources tell @TheConsensusNBA. The move brings Milwaukee’s roster to 16 standard contracts as the Bucks continue evaluating additional roster moves and aren’t done yet. Nance is expected to draw interest in open market.
Wanna feel old?
Wemby is entering year 4
Ant & Hali are entering year 7
Brunson, Shai & Luka are entering year 9
Jokic is entering year 12
Giannis is entering year 14
Kawhi is entering year 17
Steph is entering year 19
KD is entering year 21
LeBron is entering year 25
Could Jonathan Kuminga to the Bucks be a reality real soon? 👀
“Kuminga has been discussed with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Milwaukee Bucks in possible sign-and-trade scenarios.” — @MikeAScotto
(via @hoopshype)
We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo. We just got Giannis Antetokounmpo.