{"id":4690,"date":"2026-07-10T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:33:25","slug":"jaylen-brown-trade-far-from-alone-in-the-annals-of-obviously-unpopular-boston-deals-and-other-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown trade far from alone in the annals of \u2018obviously unpopular\u2019 Boston deals, and other thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Picked up pieces while wondering if folks at \u201cRick\u2019s Cafe Americain\u201d ran out of beer during the Morocco-France World Cup quarterfinal in Foxborough  \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4688\">Without offensive teeth, Morocco simply strikes out against France\u2019s firepower<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>When he wasn\u2019t delivering a Breslow-esque spin on \u201coptionality,\u201d Brad Stevens this week admitted dealing Jaylen Brown was \u201cobviously unpopular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s a fun topic: unpopular trades in Boston sports history. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>It\u2019ll be years before we can fairly access the failure or success of sending Brown to the 76ers for Paul George and a bunch of picks. In the meantime let\u2019s examine some Boston trades that were panned <i>the minute they were announced<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This means we\u2019re not talking about deals that barely moved the needle in the moment. This grouping would include Craig Breslow\u2019s 2023-24 offseason trade of Chris Sale to the Braves for the immortal Vaughn Grissom. It turned out awful, but nobody carped about it when it went down. In December \u201923, Sox fans were happy to say goodbye to Sale after many seasons lost to surgeries and broken bones.<\/span><\/p>\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<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>It was the same when Sparky Lyle was traded to the Yankees for Danny Cater way back in 1972. Hub fans believed Cater would mash at Fenway Park (he didn\u2019t). Almost 20 years later, when Lou Gorman sent Jeff Bagwell to the Astros for journeyman reliever Larry Andersen, Bagwell was a little-known minor league third baseman and the Sox were trying to make the playoffs. Only true seamheads objected when the deal went down. No one could have known Bagwell would wind up in Cooperstown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So \u2026 those bad trades are not in our conversation today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But here are some Boston trades that were \u201cobviously unpopular\u201d at the time they were announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Red Sox<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Ever the clubhouse leaders in local sports controversies, the Sox pulled off the <i>capo di tutti capi<\/i> of provocative deals when carpetbagger owner Harry Frazee sent ace southpaw\/home run king Babe Ruth to the Yankees for cash and a mortgage on Fenway Park in the dark baseball winter of 1919-20. Ruth-less Boston wept and the Yanks went on to scorch the baseball earth with the great Bambino.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was only 8 years old when we sold the Babe, but everybody had a broken heart,\u201d Cambridge native and US House Speaker Tip O\u2019Neill told me in 1989. \u201dNobody ever in the history of this country was the idol that Babe Ruth was.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Guide to the 2026 MLB Draft: When the Red Sox pick, local players to watch, and first-round order<\/div>\n<p><span>One hundred years later, the Sox did it again with Mookie Betts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There were plenty of other deals that pained fans like me in my baseball-loving, championship-starved, central Massachusetts childhood \u2026 batting champ Pete Runnels to Houston for Roman Mejias \u2026 Home run king Dick Stuart to the Phillies for Dennis Bennett \u2026 no-hit master and home-run-hitting-hurler Earl Wilson to the Tigers for Don Demeter \u2026 Nehru-jacket-wearing, sub-shop-owning, Ken \u201cHawk\u201d Harrelson to the Indians for Sonny Siebert, Vicente Romo, and Joe Azcue \u2026 Tony Conigliaro to the Angels for Doug Griffin, Ken Tatum, and Jarvis Tatum \u2026 Bill Lee to the Expos for Stan Papi \u2026 Fred Lynn to the Angels \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And then there was Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs in 2004 when Theo Epstein boldly traded the the most-popular Red Sox player of the 21st century (at the time).<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Bruins<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Two months after young Jeremy Jacobs purchased the Bruins in 1975, Harry Sinden traded the wildly popular Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais to the Rangers for Jean Ratelle, Brad Park, and journeyman Joe Zanussi. It was a Black and Gold bombshell. Espo, the best pure scorer in franchise history, was a centerpiece of the Big Bad Bruins that won two Stanley Cups in the early 1970s. He\u2019d just led the league in scoring for a sixth straight season when the deal was struck, and it took fans a long time to get over it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Don Sweeney starts the Bruins\u2019 offseason shopping, but the list is still long<\/div>\n<p><span>Ultimately, Park and Ratelle delivered the goods, and it turned out to be a good deal for the Bruins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat trade saved us for about seven years,\u201d Sinden said later. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another one that shook B\u2019s Nation was moving Jumbo Joe Thornton to the Sharks in 2005. Thornton promptly won the Hart and Art Ross trophies in the first of his 15 seasons with San Jose and skated all the way to the Hockey Hall of Fame. In return for Thornton, the Bruins got Wayne Primeau, Brad Stuart, and today\u2019s head coach, Marco Sturm.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Patriots<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>In 1969, while Clive Rush was coach, the Pats inexplicably traded fan-favorite Nick Buoniconti to the Dolphins for John Bramlett and Kim Hammond. Buoniconti went on to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Cory Durden exudes confidence in bid to line up as Patriots\u2019 starting nose tackle<\/div>\n<p><span>Ten years later, when All-Pro Leon Gray got into a contract dispute with the Sullivans and was traded to the Oilers, offensive linemate John Hannah said, \u201cWe just traded away our Super Bowl.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bill Belichick was master of the \u201cspite trade\u201d when he was winning Super Bowls: Richard Seymour to the Raiders; Logan Mankins to the Buccaneers; Jimmy Garoppolo to the 49ers. Sometimes Bill was mad at the player. Sometimes he was mad at the owner. In every case, fans sided with popular players and kept wearing jerseys of the departed to games at Gillette.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Celtics<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Brown deal is extraordinary because the Celtics simply don\u2019t trade stars in their primes. Red Auerbach did it with 28-year-old, six-time time All-Star center Ed Macauley in 1956, but that was to acquire the greatest winner in sports history: Bill Russell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Red later traded a very popular Danny Ainge as the Larry Bird dynasty wound down in 1989. Ainge became Celtics general manager and in 2011 made a horrible midseason swap of Kendrick Perkins for passive-resistence-specialist Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic. The players hated the deal and it effectively blew Boston\u2019s last chance at winning a second title with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Like the epic dumping of Brown, trading Perk was \u201cobviously unpopular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Jayson Tatum breaks silence on Celtics\u2019 Jaylen Brown trade to the 76ers: \u2018It\u2019s tough\u2019<\/div>\n<p><span>Two final thoughts on the JB deal: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Would this Celtic madness \u2014 \u201dWe\u2019ve become the Red Sox,&#8221; said one team official \u2014 be happening if the Grousbecks had found a way to sell the team to longtime loyal partner, Steve Pagliuca?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4686\">Six high school sports takeaways, including a CFL signing from Mansfield, coaching changes, and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve had about enough of analytics geeks trying to convince us that Jaylen Brown is bad at basketball. Jeremias Engelmann must be a lot of fun at parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> I\u2019ll stick with the opinion of one Charles Barkley:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Sixers just got away with murder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Quiz: 1. Name the last five players to win an American League batting title with an average of .370 or higher; 2: Name the four players to have 150 walks and 150 hits in the same season (answers below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Instant Karma\u2019s Gonna Get You Dept.: The Globe\u2019s estimable John Powers summed it up best after the USA\u2019s 4-1 World Cup loss to Belgium on Monday night: \u201cThe Americans \u2026 weren\u2019t good enough to go on. No presidential phone call ever was going to change that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>True. And do you think anyone told the Commander in Chief that US player Folarin Balogun was born while his Nigerian parents were on a trip to New York? Balogun was raised in London. If Mr. Bigly had his way (birthright citizenship) a quarter century ago, Balogun would have been ineligible to play for the US national team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Too bad the Prez couldn\u2019t call Georgia\u2019s secretary of state, looking to find a few more goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Here are five questions facing the US men\u2019s national team after a painful World Cup exit<\/div>\n<p><span>\u25aa So injured Roman Anthony has to go to Fort Myers because the Red Sox\u2019 home clubhouse is overcrowded and interim manager Chad Tracy says the outfielder needs to get away from the \u201cother stuff\u201d that comes with recovering at Fenway Park? What \u201cother stuff\u201d is there? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa When do the Sox start asking themselves if all these finger\/hand\/wrist injuries suffered by their hitters are being caused or aggravated by a teaching method that\u2019s all about bat speed and launch?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Remember Dan Duquette talking about a Red Sox team that spent \u201cmore days in first place? That\u2019s what I think of when I read the Sox think they are actually pretty good, and playoff worthy, because of their run differential and an \u201cexpected record\u201d of over .500 when they entered the weekend five games under .500. Makes my skull implode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa The still-reeling Yankees struck out 34 times (17 in each game) in back-to-back losses to the Rays during the week. Yogi Berra struck out 12 times in 656 plate appearances in 1950.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Cohasset\u2019s Dan Rice, a former pitcher at Brown and father of Yankees All Star Ben Rice, will pitch to his slugger son at Monday\u2019s Home Run Derby in Philly.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Cohasset\u2019s Ben Rice joins MLB\u2019s Home Run Derby field, seeking to be first Yankees winner since Aaron Judge<\/div>\n<p><span>\u25aa After the Lakers acquired center Walker Kessler from Utah, ESPN\u2019s inimitable Stephen A. Smith said, \u201cThe Lakers think they going with a bunch of white dudes? Your three top players (Kessler, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves) are white dudes? Really? This ain\u2019t golf. This ain\u2019t baseball. Hell, it ain\u2019t even soccer. You ain\u2019t going anywhere being led by three white dudes in today\u2019s generation of basketball.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The league today is over 70 percent Black, just as it was in 1985-86 when the Celtics won the championship and went 50-1 at home (including playoffs and Hartford) with a starting lineup that included Bird, Kevin McHale, and Ainge. The \u201985-86 Celtics\u2019 12-man roster had eight white players and four Black players and was coached by K.C. Jones, who occasionally was asked to explain his team\u2019s racial makeup and said, \u201cThe race issue was a non-issue. The only issue for me was winning \u2026 I thought it was strange that I was criticized or at least needled by Black people for keeping a white player in preference to one of their own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Let the record show that AJ Dybansta is <i>not<\/i> the first St. Sebastian\u2019s player to make it to the NBA. In 1969, Boston-born St. Seb\u2019s grad Grady O\u2019Malley, a star at Manhattan University\u201a was the 19th-round pick of Atlanta. He played in 24 games for the Hawks in \u201969-70, averaging 2.1 points. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Nice of ESPN to give the late Eddie Andelman a shout-out during its coverage of Joey Chestnut\u2019s latest competitive eating victory on July 4 at Coney Island. Andelman invented the \u201cHod Dog Safari,\u201d which has raised millions in the battle against Cystic Fibrosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Eddie Andelman gave us sports talk radio gold with his no-holds-barred interview of Wade Boggs in 1989<\/div>\n<p><span>\u25aa Next Friday, Governor Maura Healy will officially rename the I-290 bridge in Worcester as \u201cThe Bob Cousy Pass\u201d at a private dedication ceremony at Holy Cross. Cousy, who\u2019ll turn 98 on Aug. 9, is expected to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa RIP retired Herald high school sports reporter Danny Ventura, who died Tuesday at the age of 66. He was the best at what he did and loved by all. The MIAA should name a building after this man. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u25aa Quiz answers: 1. Ichiro Suzuki (2004, .372), Garciaparra (2000, .372), George Brett (1980, .390), Rod Carew (1977, .388), Ted Williams (1957, .388); 2: Barry Bonds (1996, 2001), Mark McGwire (1998), Williams (1946, \u201947, \u201949), Ruth (1920, \u201923).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4684\">Coco Gauff \u2018panicked\u2019 on match-point miss in drama-filled women\u2019s semifinal setback at Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Will Celtics be better without Jaylen Brown? Brad Stevens responds to Shaughnessy<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><figcaption><span>Monday Brad Stevens and Bill Chisholm addressed the media about the Jaylen Brown trade. 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