Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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Another team with widely reported interest, the Trail Blazers, similarly did not join the chase. A Blazers team source said the Blazers were never enamored with Brown, even before Boston made it known he was available on the trade market. Two factors went into the Blazers’ disinterest: Their analytics viewed him as a negative player and the Celtics’ asking price was too high. “We were never aggressively looking to trade for him,” a team source said. “And particularly not at their price.”  The cool market suggested the existence of a significant gap between the general perception of Brown, who finished sixth in MVP voting this season, and the way he is seen within the NBA. Though the idea of him being viewed as the seventh-best player on a given team was widely mocked, a recent report that one front-office member saw Brown in that way illuminated the reality that advanced analytics never shined too brightly on Brown’s game. Even more pointedly, a current general manager, speaking anonymously to comment on internal team discussions, told The Athletic in the wake of the trade that he doesn’t view Brown as a top-50 player in the NBA.



New York Times

Wow. How the mighty have fallen.

I wouldn´t want that dumb sh*t on my public resume either or to give my owner a reason to fire me on the spot.  And that also proves you should never sell yourself short and believe you don´t know more about basketball than some high-ranking NBA officials. The Blazers have won more games than Jaylen Brown last year, once in the last 35 years, but I guess their analytics department thinks Queta, Pritchard and Hauser did it.