Jones & Keefe: Trading Jaylen Brown would be a bad choice for the new ownership group

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00:00What's the likelihood Jalen Brown is on the move, Utah or anywhere else?

00:04I don't see it. I don't see it.

00:05I mean, I guess with Utah with the fifth pick,

00:07obviously there's a Boston connection with two angels now in Utah,

00:12but I just don't see them moving off Jalen Brown.

00:14I think for the most part, fans understood what was going on with the second apron,

00:18that they had to get under there for the restrictions, the penalties,

00:21whether or not you agree with it, that's a different story.

00:23But if you get under the second apron and then trade Jalen Brown or Derek White,

00:27I think that's where you run out of your free pass, right?

00:29In a way, they have a pass to kind of maneuver the way they've done things

00:32and the way they've operated because people understand they have to do it.

00:36But this is a new ownership group coming in now.

00:38They've accomplished the goal that they wanted, and they're not done yet, right?

00:40They're only $4.5 million under.

00:42There are more moves to come, but you're going to run out of that pass

00:45if you turn around and trade Jalen Brown or Derek White.

00:47Those are the guys that everyone kind of feels the feeling around

00:50is that they are going to build around them and Jason Tatum,

00:52and if you go off and offload one of them,

00:54that's how you really set a bad tone to the beginning of your ownership.

00:57And I know this is a salary dump very clearly.

01:00This is what they're doing.

01:01But I feel like it's a little bit different.

01:03So when you look at the Red Sox, Rafael Devers was having an all-star season.

01:07Right.

01:07Kristaps Porzingis played half a season and not in the playoffs.

01:11And then when he did play in the playoffs, he was tired after games.

01:14Like, I feel like, yeah, the return wasn't great for Porzingis,

01:18but you just couldn't rely on him.

01:19Like, I feel like a lot of fans probably feel the way I do,

01:22where you're like, all right, nice player.

01:23Thanks for the run on the title, but without Tatum next year,

01:27you need guys that are going to play and guys that you can rely on.

01:30So this sort of had to happen.

01:33Like, Porzingis being gone, like, okay, I don't think you're –

01:36you're not losing the guy that you're like, oh, he could be 20 points per game

01:40and, like, seven rebounds.

01:41Like, that guy's not really there.

01:42You can't rely on him.

01:43I will say I am a little bit worried for what it means for the offense now,

01:46though, and the defense at that.

01:48But, I mean, when he was on the floor, he did give them an entire other element

01:52that took them to another level.

01:54I know it was sparingly – we actually looked at it this morning.

01:56And, like, two playoff runs, though, where you couldn't even count on.

01:58And I think the last one this year, I mean, when they needed him most,

02:02when they were going stagnant against New York,

02:04they went out and got Christoph Porzingis for that reason,

02:06to get the offense back on track when that was happening,

02:09and he wasn't able to do it.

02:10So I think people did sour on him pretty quickly.

02:12And when it's all said and done, people will look back on his tenure here

02:14and be relatively happy, right?

02:16They won a championship.

02:17Game one alone, I think, was worth it.

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