BEST OF THE HERD – Jaylen Brown Takeaways, Giovanni Reyna Joins, Ayton Traded to Washington
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Ah, it's Friday. Great show. World Cup rolls on with all sorts of drama. Celtics aren't done dealing. Sixers have a lot of guys who think they're number ones. How's that going to work? Welcome in. It's great to see you. We're live in Chicago on a Friday. It is a summer version of the Heard Great Show ahead. The six, the super six in one hour from now, the top six World Cup goals from this week. J-Mac has Heard line today, headlines today. So we got a packed show on a Friday. So Jalen Brown traded to the Sixers. Shocking. What is going on? That is historic. Take a deep breath. Four things to remember. Number one, everybody has a boss. Even Elon Musk, it's called the IRS. And about a year ago, Trump, everybody's got a boss.
Brad Stevens is a general manager, not an owner. The Celtics are owned by an investment group that does not also own TD Garden. So they're not swimming in cash. It's not very profitable. They've got two guys, Tatum and Brown, playing together for nine years. That's longer than Shaq and Kobe. Nine years, one title. And they're clearly falling behind San Antonio and Oklahoma City. So the investment group, yeah, that's who owns the Celtics. The investment group that doesn't own the arena said, we're going to move off one of these guys. We couldn't beat the good teams last year. We're falling behind. Brad Stevens has a boss. And I think he also realized it. Number two is, Trading super max players in 2026, bro, it's hard.
Cost control is everything. It's not stacking rosters. It's not the 80 Lakers. Think about this. The Milwaukee Bucks were offered Jalen Brown and two first-round picks. Jalen Brown, all NBA, two first-round picks. The Milwaukee Bucks said, nah, we'll take Tyler Hero, rotational players, and more picks. The hell? That's the new NBA. Number three, analytics run baseball and basketball, not football. They run it. You're a hack. You're a dinosaur. You're Jurassic. If you're in a front office in the NBA and baseball and you don't go all in on analytics, the first thing the new Laker owners did, Build an analytics department. Why are the Dodgers the best-run team in sports? Analytics department. Analytically, I'm sorry, Jalen Brown's not a number one.
And he's a $57 million player annually. There's a great article today by Sam Amick, excellent reporting in The Athletic.
What led to Jaylen Brown's trade from the Celtics?
The Celtics are unbeatable when Tatum has 33% usage rate. Jalen Brown got to be a number one last year. He didn't want to go back to being a number two. It's in the story. And Tatum can't get to that usage rate because Jalen Brown wants shots. Jalen Brown got a taste of it. He likes it. I don't blame him. But with Jalen Brown as a one, they weren't beating good teams last year. So number three is analytics run this sport. Analytically, the Celtics believe Derek White was a better player last year. And that was leaked. Peyton Pritchard, $8 million. Jalen Brown, $57 million? Is Jalen, is he seven times better than Peyton Pritchard? He's better. But the way the Celtics look at it is Peyton Pritchard at $8 million fits our formula.
I'm looking at it this morning. Jalen Brown's career, I'm sorry, analytics. Don't blame the messenger. The Celtics for his entire tenure with the team are better when he's off the floor. That's what they say. So he's making $57 million a year. He doesn't want to move back to a number two, according to The Athletic. And guess what? The market for him wasn't very big. They wanted Milwaukee. No, it wasn't very big. Hell, for Giannis, it wasn't even huge. And he's a better player. And number four is, of every NBA team, nobody is more formula-driven and analytic-driven than the Celtics.
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