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Despite a report to the contrary, Jaylen Brown’s camp is denying that he demanded a trade out of Boston this past offseason.
The idea that Brown, now with the Philadelphia 76ers, demanded a trade or even presented the Celtics with a list of demands is “10,000% a lie,” one of his representatives told ESPN’s Kris Rhim on Monday night.
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Brown was dealt to the 76ers this past summer in a blockbuster deal that sent Paul George to the Celtics. That gave the 76ers another piece to pair with Joel Embiid and LeBron James, who they also signed in free agency after he left the Los Angeles Lakers.
But on Monday, former Celtics player and NBC Sports Boston analyst Brian Scalabrine said that Brown requested a trade out of Boston and that he had a list of demands.
“My understanding of this thing is that he demanded to be traded,” Scalabrine said. “Not through the media, but to the organization … My understanding is that Jaylen Brown went to the organization and had a list of demands, and it was like, ‘You either do this, or you trade me.'”
That, Brown’s representative said, never happened. While a deal centered around former Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo fell through, Boston told Brown that he was going to be traded anyways. His only request, the representative said, was to have input on his destination.
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Scalibrine walked his comments back on Monday night, but stood by his claim that Brown had a list of demands. But, according to Brown’s camp, the only other request he had was that he and Jayson Tatum were treated equally.
“I don’t know what the ultimatum was or the demands or whatever it was,” Scalabrine said on Monday night. “So technically, he did not demand to be traded. It was, ‘Do these things right here, or else.’ And one of them might have been, ‘Give me the $140 million extension.’
“I haven’t gotten to the bottom of all that. I didn’t even know this was going to be a thing. It’s one of those things that lived in my mind for months. I finally used it because we were talking about the weirdest stuff, and then now it’s out there.”
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Author : Ryan Young
Publish date : 2026-10-27 04:13:00
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