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Few leaders in professional sports have more patience at the podium than Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens. Stevens is typically verbose, fields more questions than is necessary, and goes into more depth than is required (while also being impressively articulate).
But, on Tuesday night, just moments after the Celtics selected Houston forward Chris Cenac Jr. with the No. 27 overall pick in the NBA draft, Stevens (unsurprisingly) sidestepped questions far more than he typically does.
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That’s because the majority of the questions Stevens was asked late Tuesday night did not center around the team’s draft selection — they centered around the future of Jaylen Brown, the Celtics 2024 Finals MVP and five-time All-Star who just so happens to be coming off the best season of his career, only to find himself embroiled in (seemingly very legitimate) trade rumors.
ESPN insider Shams Charania reported on Tuesday night that Brown was explicitly offered by the Celtics in a proposed trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo (who, if you haven’t heard, instead landed in Miami).
The entire unfolding of the saga begged the question: with Antetokounmpo headed elsewhere, where does the Celtics’ relationship with Brown stand now? Do the Celtics want to bring him back? Does he even want to return?
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Last month, on his Twitch stream, Brown said if it were up to him, he’d spend the next 10 years in Boston.
In the wake of these trade rumors, has that changed?
We didn’t get a clear-cut answer about Brown’s future in Boston, nor did Stevens disclose how close the Celtics actually got to pulling the trigger on the trade.
“I’m not going to talk about those types of things, right?” he said in response to the first question of the press conference, which centered around the Giannis trade.
But, we did learn a few concerete things about the nature of the situation.
Brad Stevens and Jaylen Brown have been in regular touch
Brad Stevens was willing to divulge more information about the nature of his communications with Brown, which seemed to imply that Brown was probably not blindsided when the…
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