{"id":4452,"date":"2026-07-07T07:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:03:55","slug":"the-jaylen-brown-trade-makes-it-seem-like-the-celtics-are-no-longer-completely-focused-on-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"The Jaylen Brown trade makes it seem like the Celtics are no longer completely focused on winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>If the goal of the Celtics\u2019 brass on Monday was to appease a mostly upset and confused fan base and renew their confidence that the Bill Chisholm group is all about winning, Chisholm\u2019s and Brad Stevens\u2019s jumpers clanged badly off the rim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4450\">Follow live updates on the Trump administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>There may be more confusion as to why the Celtics traded the popular Jaylen Brown for Paul George and draft picks \u2014 let us never forget those draft picks \u2014 as there was six days ago when the deal was consummated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Around the league, many executives and coaches are ripping the Celtics for getting such a minuscule return for a five-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA player. And while Brown\u2019s name spent 10 days getting dragged as fans and critics searched for reasons why he was so aggressively on the trading block, Stevens called Brown \u201camazing\u201d multiple times and said the deal was essentially salary driven.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, Chisholm made the shocking statement that the Brown trade, the decisions to move Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, and allowing Al Horford and Luke Kornet to leave via free agency were all \u201cbasketball-related\u201d moves, maintaining the ownership did not mandate Stevens to move Brown to save money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI just don\u2019t necessarily agree with the premise there that just they were salary based, every decision that was made, you know, the prior decisions. I should say that those are basketball-related decisions,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cWe would have gutted the team for the future had we not done those things. The second apron is a real thing. That was not about money, those are basketball decisions, and I put this one, you know, in the same category as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Bill Chisholm says the Jaylen Brown trade was \u2018not about the money,\u2019 but Celtics fans won\u2019t buy that<\/div>\n<p><span>Moreover, there\u2019s no question the Celtics\u2019 reputation, especially that of Stevens, has taken a major beating in the past two weeks while dangling their most senior player on the trade market. There\u2019s a perception the Celtics forced this deal and when they didn\u2019t receive their deserved return, they turned into desperation mode and dumped him off on a division rival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unquestionably, other NBA players have viewed how the Celtics treated Brown in his final days and pondered how the franchise operates and values its players. While Stevens said none of the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors or the speculations that Brown was being shopped around the league like a used TV set came from the Celtics, the franchise\u2019s once-pristine image has been dampened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know how much of that is avoidable in this day and age,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI\u2019ve done a pretty good job of staying off of all the social media, probably rightfully so, for the last few days, but you know, when, when it was first being bandied about the different teams that were interested in [Jaylen], there were several that weren\u2019t that never even really called. So it\u2019s hard to tell what\u2019s a rumor and what\u2019s real, unless you\u2019re on the phones. I will say that that\u2019s just a hard thing to navigate in the edge, so you do your best you can at being upfront before that could possibly happen, which was, you know, again, we talked a couple of times in early June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4448\">Defensive lapses cost United States in loss to Belgium in World Cup round of 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd again, if I didn\u2019t do a great job with it, you know, I think we\u2019ll probably both have different versions of that of what those conversations look like, but I do think, that\u2019s what I would regret, because not necessarily for any other reason why I just like Jaylen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the Celtics today are not the same as they were last week. Stevens couldn\u2019t promise this trade improved the team. Chisholm promised the ownership group would back up their promises with dollars in the future, with Brown\u2019s contract now off the books and any potential extension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the trust level for this franchise has been sacrificed. Stevens could be fully reliable in his ability to improve the team, even if the moves were unpopular or difficult, such as the Marcus Smart trade or moving Robert Williams for Holiday, but now there is doubt. In addition to shipping quality players out of Boston to escape the second apron, Stevens and Chisholm allowed the devoted Brown to have his basketball acumen, impact, and even his personality dissected and skewered over the past 10 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>The six teams that could land LeBron James<\/div>\n<p><span>Doesn\u2019t say much for the Celtics\u2019 loyalty. The fact the Celtics are not perceived as the same franchise as when his predecessors owned the club seemingly bothered Chisholm, who has said all the right things and been courtside for nearly every game since purchasing the team. But the talent level of the club has shrunk, as well as the payroll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would say everything Brad said I agree with, but if [our franchise image depreciating] were the case, that is, that\u2019s not acceptable, because this is the Boston Celtics,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cThat\u2019s not what we\u2019re about, and we want this to be, we have to be the best, and we want the best place for players to play, and if that\u2019s the case, then we got to fix that. When the perception becomes reality, we\u2019ve got to make sure we deal with that, but that\u2019s not my take on how things went down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But in reality, we really still don\u2019t know how things went down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stevens lauded Brown, blamed finances, and couldn\u2019t promise brighter days. Chisholm mostly watched, interjected that nothing Stevens has done was mandated by ownership, and said little to give fans peace of mind that moves like these won\u2019t be the norm around here. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4446\">Brad Stevens says he has \u2018lost sleep\u2019 over Jaylen Brown trade, but the deal gives the Celtics flexibility<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unquestionably, other NBA players have viewed how the Celtics treated Brown in his final days and pondered how the franchise operates and values its players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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