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As recently as last week, league sources talking to NBC Sports were playing down the idea of Boston as a serious suitor for Giannis Antetokounmpo, saying they weren’t really all-in on their pursuit.
That appears to have changed over the weekend. First, NBA insider Marc Stein of the Stein Line wrote in a late-night missive Sunday:
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“One league source, after this story was published, told The Stein Line that the Celtics managed to emerge from the weekend ‘with a real shot’ to win this race with a Jaylen Brown-centric offer, adding that Milwaukee has considered going ahead with a Boston swap even without a third-team facilitator.”
Monday morning, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said on Get Up, “I was really skeptical that the Boston Celtics were going to go all-in on this, but from what I understand, they have.”
The expectation remains that this trade will be completed before Tuesday night’s NBA Draft. Miami is still near the front of the line and may yet win this sweepstakes with an offer reportedly involving Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jamie Jaquez Jr. and draft picks. However, it’s clear Milwaukee doesn’t love that offer, or this trade would already be done.
ESPN’s Shams Charania added this on the network’s Get Up show: “It’s going to consist of Milwaukee and likely one of these two teams. There’s no third team, fourth team in any construct right now.”
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Boston’s offer would be based around All-NBA wing Jaylen Brown, coming off the best season of his career, averaging 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists, leading the Celtics to 56 wins and the No. 2 seed in the East despite Jayson Tatum being out for most of the season. The talk in league circles had been that Boston didn’t firmly put Brown in an offer, that Milwaukee had been using the situation more as leverage to get more out of Miami, but that appears not to have changed.
What other players (if any) and draft compensation would be in a Boston trade are the real questions. There have been rumors about Payton Pritchard being in the offer, but he would be a player the Celtics would want to keep because of how well he would fit playing off…
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