As if the Jaylen Brown trade wasn’t enough excitement for Philadelphia 76ers fans, the team’s front office put everybody on LeBron James watch on Wednesday night. Shortly after the trade with the Boston Celtics, it was reported that the Sixers were one of several teams to make a free agency pitch to LeBron. Steven Gansey, […]
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Here are three main reasons why the Boston Celtics decided to pull off a shocking Jaylen Brown trade with the Philadelphia 76ers last night.
Before Wednesday's blockbuster trade that sent star guard Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Boston Celtics reportedly had a difficult time coming to terms with the likelihood of parting ways with one of the faces of their franchise.
The Boston Celtics watched the Philadelphia 76ers eliminate them in seven games during the first round of the 2026 playoffs. Boston became the first team in Celtics history to surrender a 3-1 series lead. The loss ended a 56-win season that Jaylen Brown carried almost entirely on his own, with Jayson Tatum sidelined for most […]
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In the wake of the Boston Celtics' shocking trade of Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, rumors emerged regarding recent trade interest in Jayson Tatum.
The Miami Heat’s quest to fill up the roster while also surrounding Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo with decent pieces will come down to veteran or mid-level deals. Miami already signed veteran sharpshooter Tim Hardaway Jr. to a one-year, $6.5 million deal, and is now linked to Anfernee Simons as a potential target. According to […]
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The blockbuster trade that sent Jaylen Brown to the 76ers did more than reshape the East. It also allowed Stephen A. Smith to revisit one of his most controversial takes. Hours after the Celtics moved the former Finals MVP, Smith argued that the deal validated what he had been saying for years – that Brown’s […]
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Everyone is quick to pour dirt on the Celtics' grave after trading Jaylen Brown for Paul George, but the return isn't as bad as it looks.
The Jaylen Brown blockbuster didn’t just cost the Celtics an All-NBA star. It appeared to have exposed a deeper fracture inside the organization. It may have been avoided. As details continue to emerge following JB’s move to the 76ers, the conversation has shifted from the trade itself to the relationships that unraveled behind the scenes. […]
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Not the best day for links, as everybody was writing about Jaylen Brown and LeBron James. You’d been cool thinking those things should be separated by a good 10 years or so, but they’re not, somehow. Here are some. “Throughout the course of this run, I got help with the messaging from different people. I’m […]
The Philadelphia 76ers narrowly avoided disaster by rejecting the one the thing the Celtics desperately wanted in the Jaylen Brown trade.
Being "in love with the idea of someone" is a classic romcom cliche. And that concept is at the heart of the widespread reaction to the Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown trade.
The NBA's summer of stunners continues.
The Boston Celtics spent the 2025-26 season exceeding every projection placed on them. With Jayson Tatum sidelined for most of the season while recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon, Boston still won 56 games and secured the second seed in the Eastern Conference. The gap year never materialized.Jaylen Brown was the reason. He averaged 28.7 […]
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Kendrick Perkins delivered a sharp critique of the Boston Celtics’ decision to move Jaylen Brown, framing the transaction as one of the most lopsided moves in recent league history. “It was one of the dumbest trades in NBA history. Mike Gansey, Jameer Nelson, Bob Myers, they should be serving breakfast in bed to Brad Stevens. […]
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The Boston Celtics’ trade discussions with the Philadelphia 76ers included a request for VJ Edgecombe as part of the return package for Jaylen Brown, according to reporting from ESPN’s Shams Charania. Boston ultimately agreed to a deal centered on Paul George and multiple draft picks, but only after setting what league sources described as a […]
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It’s Game 7, and the Celtics are playing small. No Jayson Tatum for the night, a DNP for Nikola Vucevic, and Jaylen Brown is on the block with a posted-up Joel Embiid. And this wasn’t some small ball hard trap. Jaylen Brown is on an island with a 280-pound former MVP. With nine minutes left […]
Let’s go over the numbers: 17.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game on 49% from the field and 55% (!) from three. Those are the stats that Paul George averaged in the Celtics-76ers first round series this past season. Now, those percentages won’t hold up over a regular season and his age and […]
When the offseason began, it felt inevitable that Jaylen Brown would spend the summer answering questions about his future, whether it happened in Boston, Milwaukee, or elsewhere. What nobody expected, however, was that those questions would end with Brown wearing a Philadelphia 76ers jersey. According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Celtics traded Brown to Philadelphia […]
The Boston Celtics are approaching the 2026 offseason with confidence following their blockbuster trade of Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers. Team officials view the move as a roster reset that preserves flexibility around Jayson Tatum while adding draft capital and veteran forward Paul George. Chris Haynes reported that Boston views the deal as a […]
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Brian Windhorst detailed a notable internal evaluation from Boston during the 2025-26 season, stating on The Hoop Collective podcast: “Even though Jaylen Brown was talking about himself for MVP, the Celtics did not feel like Jaylen had the best season on their team. They felt that Derrick White had a better season.” The comment frames […]
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The Celtics' greed seems to have cost them in the Jaylen Brown trade negotiations.
On Wednesday, the biggest news of the day was that the Boston Celtics had reportedly traded Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers.Brown is coming off a fantastic season where he averaged 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.0 steals per contest while shooting 47.7% from the field in 71 games.ESPN’s Shams Charania wrote: “BLOCKBUSTER: […]
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Jaylen Brown will play alongside Joel Embiid with the Philadelphia 76ers next season. The former Boston Celtics star was traded on Wednesday in exchange for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round selections. However, his previous comments about the…
Although the Lakers were eventually upstaged on Wednesday by the stunning Jaylen Brown trade agreement between the Celtics and Sixers, Los Angeles’ flurry of free agent deals looked like the NBA’s biggest story of the day for much of July 1. In the span of 35 minutes, the team went from having upwards of $50MM […]