Jaylen Brown’s days with the Boston Celtics are formally over.
The previous Finals MVP has packed his luggage and left for the Metropolis of Brotherly Like to play for the Philadelphia 76ers in a head-scratching blockbuster deal.
Given the considerably lackluster return the Celtics obtained for him, it did not take lengthy earlier than followers and analysts speculated there was extra to it. Even Brown himself questioned the team’s motives on his Twitch account.
In keeping with ClutchPoints insider Brett Siegel, that hypothesis is not that far off. In actual fact, Jayson Tatum’s camp wasn’t too proud of Brown’s demeanor and feedback from this season.
Jaylen Brown ruffled some feathers in Boston
“These rival group sources who spoke with ClutchPoints even went so far as to say members of Tatum’s camp had expressed externally to others in league circles that they weren’t proud of Brown’s demeanor and his angle of claiming that this was the season he loved probably the most with the Celtics, particularly since Tatum didn’t play till March,” Siegel wrote.
Tatum hasn’t addressed the commerce on social media, and Brown did not point out his title when he stated solely the youthful members of the group had reached out to him.
For years, the Celtics duo was seen as a partnership, they usually portrayed themselves not solely as teammates but in addition as associates. Maybe that was really the case, and someplace alongside the way in which, they drifted aside, or possibly it was all for present.
Regardless, the Celtics — and the followers — have at all times embraced and anointed Tatum because the face of the franchise, even after Browns’ Finals MVP efficiency and this sturdy season.
Inevitably, that needed to make Brown really feel a sure manner, and he might have run his mouth a bit an excessive amount of to compensate.
All issues thought-about, it appears like this duo underachieved with only one championship and two journeys to the NBA Finals, even within the period of parity and with their youth.
Now, Celtics followers shall be left questioning how lengthy they may’ve gone collectively.
