Shams Charania
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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Where that argument doesn't hold up is that Paul George and Jalen Brown are basically making the same amount.
So the next two years, Paul George is under contract on a max deal, I think around $55 million.
Jalen Brown is around $57 million.
So you're still tying up.
your salary cap with 70%.
So that leaves teams around the league to ask the question, like, why did you trade Jalen Brown now?
Couldn't you have waited as the summer went on, as next season went on, because he had three years left on his deal?
Now, the answer to that is very simple.
The Celtics were not going to commit a extension to Jalen Brown.
They clearly did not want him or felt strongly enough about him long-term, for whatever reason internally, that when his extension was going to come around in late July,
they knew they were not going to offer Jalen Brown the two-year $140 million plus.
And that would have caused a reaction.
Both sides would have had to have even harder conversations.
And this could have gone another way.
This could have gotten ugly potentially because you've already shopped the player in Jalen Brown multiple times.
In 2022, he was offered for Kevin Durant.
This summer, he was offered for Giannis.
He was made available in trades last summer.
So this is not the first time.
And the only way to show a guy like that respect is by giving him the contract offer.
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