Don’t expect the Boston Celtics to move star forward Jaylen Brown just to accumulate assets, according to recent reporting from Bleacher Report contributor Jake Fischer. The Georgia native has been in the thick of the NBA offseason rumor mill since his name came up as part of the package Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens offered for Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo before he was dealt to the Miami Heat.
Now, the presumption seems to be that Boston will try to move Brown before the start of the 2026 NBA regular season, but Fischer pushed back against that supposition in a Bleacher Report video on Friday (June 26) afternoon. “I really am skeptical that you’re going to see Jaylen Brown moved just for draft capital,” suggested the B/R reporter.
“The word prevails out of New England that the Celtics want to be a contender and a real playoff team around Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard, and whoever else sticks around in that organization beyond whatever tinkering that Stevens and company continue to do over the next couple weeks,” he added.
“They don’t want to trade Jaylen Brown for the greatest possible value,” Fischer continued, “like Milwaukee ultimately did (for Antetokounmpo).”
Such reports should of course always be taken with a healthy degree of skepticism given the stakes and competing interests sources can have. But for fans of the team worried about a slip into irrelevance for the Celtics, it appears that Boston’s executives are working hard to make sure that does not happen on their watch.
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