Windhorst It wasn't that the league doesn't think Jaylen Brown is a great player or an excellent player is that the league doesn't value what he produces at his salary slot 57M And that is why he was traded and that is why he was traded for relatively so little

Marks Jaylen Brown's trade value isn't that high around the rest of the league I had an analytics guy tell me We view Brown as the seventh-best player on a team

Windhorst Did they get Jaylen Brown for free

Nick Wright explains why the Jaylen Brown trade was so lopsided

Nick Wright explains how the Jaylen Brown trade was lopsided

Windhorst Even though Jaylen Brown was talking about himself for MVP the Celtics did not feel like Jaylen had the best season on their team They felt that Derrick White had a better season

Brad Stevens on why he traded Jaylen Brown The path looked a little bit more challenging to me with 70 of our cap and such a high usage into two players and the reality in this era and in this day and age in the NBA you have to do a great job in building depth