⚾️Kasper 4th of July Slate Breakdown⚾️
Chalky day yesterday leading into the 4th of July today. Some great games on tap with a full slate today! Let's see some fireworks!
Good luck! 🍀
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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
Boston Celtics 7-footer Neemias Queta will sign a new four-year, $56 million extension with the franchise, his agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball tells ESPN. Queta has established himself as a critical Celtics piece – from two-way contracts to averaging 10.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks as starting center.
Jaylen Brown:
"The process is back the fuck on. We been shutting the process down for the last I don’t know how many years. The process been over. But now the process is back mothafucka."
Jaylen Brown says he didn’t like that the Boston Celtics didn’t tell him why he was being traded.
“I wasn’t thrilled with how the conversation was facilitated. I did feel like it was a lack of respect. At one point it was fine, and then out of nowhere it just went left. I definitely think there’s more to it. There definitely is more to it. I know Brad is getting a lot of criticism, but I just wish more of it could have been explained. I just wish they had the respect to tell me exactly what it was, and I would have understood and respected that… Some of the guys have already reached out from the Celtics, some of the young guys, so I appreciate them… The guys I was able to build with, those guys who reached out to me, all told me, ‘It was a pleasure to play with you, and I appreciate everything that you helped me with,’ so that’s the stuff that gives you more motivation to keep going.”
The Celtics now have enough assets to pursue Trey Murphy III, per @SIChrisMannix
“The Celtics can spin that the pair of first-rounders they picked up have value. And they do. The 2028 one will likely end up as the Clippers’, who are beginning a rebuild with an Aspiration-sized anvil over their head. The ’31 pick is Philadelphia’s and, hey, who knows where the Sixers will be in four years. Boston has kicked the tires on Pelicans forward Trey Murphy III, sources say. This deal gives them more assets to pursue him.”
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