J. Kyle Mann

I can't argue with it.

I think they might be like a kind of player away, but I don't know that it's a Jalen Brown necessarily.

He's very similar even within what he does to a lot of what they already have.

The difference is he's a much better one-on-one creator.

And so from that perspective, he'd be really useful in the way that CJ McCollum was useful, but he's much bigger and much stronger, much harder to take out and rock off his game.

He would definitely help them.

But the question with the Celtics and all these teams is like, is Boston really going to trade Jalen Brown to a fellow Eastern Conference contender where they're going to have to potentially see Jalen Brown in the playoffs for the foreseeable future?

Is that something that they're really willing to do?

Don't do that.

The Kevin Durant one would be very funny, too.

The original sin of all of this low-key backrooming... Toxicity is strong, but the murmuring about the Tatum-Brown stuff was when they tried to trade him or talked about trading him for Kevin Durant in the first place.

If it just culminates in that, it would be the objectively funniest possible outcome.

I also just think it would be a bad basketball decision for the Celtics.

Kevin Durant cannot be the prime return of a Jalen Brown trade.

Jalen Brown is really good.

Yeah, he is more a little bit more of a matter of taste than other stars.

Like there are some executives in the league who are just like definitively not Jalen Brown people just as far as like his game, not even to say anything about him as a personality or a locker room presence.

There's just like a bunch of people even still who just don't really believe in him as a primary guy.

And so, so long as that's the case, then market's going to be narrow.

So long as this contract is what it is, it's going to be difficult.