@Savageboston They should do everything they can to get him as close to 100% as possible for the playoff run. I don’t want him anywhere near an 11-hour international flight to Germany
@RealBobManning What Jaylen says and how he feels is not always the same. How he feels in November is not always how he’ll feel months later. He also bucked against his “role” not infrequently when he and Jayson were both healthy and dominant.
@John_Zannis Do you have any thoughts on the point made by Paul Perillo on the Patriots’ team podcast today that comments needling Jaylen made by team announcers makes the Celtics org look bad?
@PatriotsCLNS@GregABedard This is wildly irresponsible conjecture on the part of a supposed journalist. All Bedard seems to do is theorize off of half-baked or absent reporting.
@John_Zannis Boston’s offensive system allowed the team to thrive in spite of Jaylen, not because of him and game 7 against Philly was proof of that. When they needed Jaylen to create, the offense cratered
@John_Zannis He wasn’t top-15 as a Celtic, but as a Sixer he is. He wasn’t worth a couple second rounders as a Celtic but as a Sixer he’s an MVP-candidate. He was lucky to be traded at all as a Celtic but as a Sixer he deserves to feel epically insulted for having been dealt
@ColeyMick When Jaylen has fucked up the development of VJ and is subtweeting Embiid in the media, this will be seen in such a different light. 100% addition by subtraction and I loved watching JB as a Celtic for the past decade. He’s past being a superstar and he will never accept that
@John_Zannis zero percent chance 7 is in the rafters now right? It was kind of an asinine take even before he got traded that they would retire his number. Just more evidence of how stunted JB’s view of himself on this team happened to be
@John_Zannis There has been almost no actual reporting throughout this trade saga, almost entirely speculation and half-assed, recycled takes. Jaylen was a net negative, was not worth his contract, and ultimately got salary dumped but the second he’s in Philly everyone says he’s a superstar
@John_Zannis I’m terrified after the Giannis contract news from Simmons that Brad is looking at this Red Sox-style cost cutting and poverty spending and thinks about cutting bait and moving to San Antonio to coach again if they move on from their HC next season if they don’t win a title.
@isaiahthomas Thank you for all the great memories as a Celtic IT! Seeing Jaylen traded today reminds me as a fan how special the moments we share are watching you guys ball every night for us and I’m grateful to have gotten to watch you dominate as the King in the 4th
@ColeyMick I cannot get over everyone losing their minds acting like Jaylen was a HOFer we gave away for scraps when he was a negative asset yesterday. Now anonymous GMs are calling it highway robbery when the same GMs were acting like getting of JB’s contract would be a miracle
@AdamMKaufman JB is not in his prime anymore, he’s fallen off massively defensively and is a ball-hog to be productive offensively. It’s not a great trade, but let’s not act like Jaylen is 2009 Kobe we’re offloading.