I know this is controversial, but I don’t think the Jaylen Brown/Jayson Tatum chemistry was salvageable.
Jaylen was incredible in the 2024 Finals. He deserved real credit. But when you go back through the tape, Tatum was the one constantly attracting the defense, creating advantages, and making the game easier for on his teammates.
Jaylen got the trophy, but Tatum was the engine of both ends of the floor that allowed it to be possible.
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Just in: Free agent Khris Middleton has agreed on a three-year, $17.6 million deal with the Washington Wizards via sign-and-trade, agent Mike Lindeman of Excel Sports Management tells ESPN. The 14-year veteran returns to D.C. where he spent parts of last two seasons as a leader with championship presence.
After more than 7 years of legal battles, Nipsey Hussle's two children have finally received their inheritances from his estate worth millions.
Blacc Sam multiplied the estates from 2M to 11M & then gave it to the daughter directly when she hit 17.
Brad Stevens on the Jaylen Brown trade:
"When I looked at our team, and I looked at where the league was heading ... the path looked a little bit more challenging with 70% of our cap and such a high percent of our usage tied into two players."
Ben Da Don’s dad started questioning Rubi Rose and the other women on the boat about what they were trying to get out of being there, saying he has a daughter and wanted to understand the message behind it 🤔👀💀
He also asked if a boat full of women was really the place someone would go to find a wife, while Rubi joked she was just trying to get active
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Kuz preaching! The NBAPA definitely needs to be more prepared and fight back when the nba is trying to move players based on the new CBA and what ownerhsip thinks is right
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.
REPORT: The Hornets offered a trade package of Miles Bridges, Naz Reid, and draft compensation to Boston for Jaylen Brown, per @BrettSiegelNBA
The Celtics declined ultimately wanting Brandon Miller and more than Three First-Round picks, to which the Hornets said no.
People in the NBA believe Jaylen Brown has a "disease" where he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, per @colincowherd
“I had two NBA sources … two people in the league, one an executive, one a scout, say that Jaylen Brown has — it’s a disease. He suddenly thinks he’s the smartest guy in every room he’s in ... You make a lot of money, suddenly you’re absolutely sure, you don’t wanna listen to your bosses, you don’t wanna listen to consultants, you don’t wanna listen to teammates.”
(Via @volumebball, h/t @TheNBABase)
Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum in Boston:
9 seasons
620 total games
332-167 in regular season (.665 win pct.)
73-48 in playoffs (.603 win pct.)
1 NBA championship
2 Eastern Conference titles
5 Eastern Conference Finals appearances
16 playoff series wins