Multiple NBA teams reportedly are interested in acquiring Jaylen Brown if the Celtics make him available this offseason, according to a report Monday from NBA insider Marc Stein.<\/p>\n
There is \u201cbelief in some corners of the league\u201d that the Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers \u201call have legitimate trade interest in Brown<\/a>,\u201d Stein wrote on his \u201cThe Stein Line\u201d Substack.<\/p>\n The Hawks are Brown\u2019s hometown team. The Rockets are coached by former Boston head coach Ime Udoka. The Trail Blazers, whose current roster features ex-Celtics Jrue Holiday and Robert Williams III, are coming off their best season in five years. All three teams were eliminated in the first round of the NBA playoffs and could benefit from adding a player of Brown\u2019s caliber.<\/p>\n Brown is coming off the best statistical season of his career, setting personal bests in points (28.7), rebounds (6.9) and assists (5.1) per game while making second-team All-NBA and finishing sixth in NBA MVP voting. But questions about his future in Boston<\/a> have swirled since the Celtics blew a 3-1 series lead en route to their first opening-round playoff exit since 2021. Boston played the first 62 games of the season \u2014 and Game 7 of its series against Philadelphia \u2014 without Brown\u2019s longtime co-star, Jayson Tatum.<\/p>\n Multiple national NBA reporters, including Stein and ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>, have linked the Celtics to two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is on the trade block<\/a> this offseason. Including Brown in a deal for Antetokounmpo \u2014 either sending him to Milwaukee or diverting him to a third team like Atlanta, Houston or Portland \u2014 would be the most likely way to make that blockbuster deal work from a salary perspective.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old Brown has three years remaining on the supermax contract he signed in 2023, and he will become eligible in July for a two-year extension worth roughly $140 million.<\/p>\n \u201cI love Boston,\u201d Brown said in a Twitch stream earlier this month. \u201cIf it were up to me, I would play in Boston for the next 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n In a separate stream Sunday night, Brown said he believes he has yet to reach his peak.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is Year 10, but this is the first time in an extended amount of time that I was able to get this level of responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cSo this year, I was learning a lot on the fly and had to adjust, and also lead a team and stuff like that at the same time. But it was fun. It was great. So I\u2019m still looking to continue to improve. I\u2019m still looking to continue to evolve.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like I\u2019m coming into my prime. My mind, my body, athleticism is all coming together, so I\u2019m excited to kind of see what I can do and where I can go with it. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve reached my limit yet, and I don\u2019t have no plans of not reaching my limit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple NBA teams reportedly are interested in acquiring Jaylen Brown if the Celtics make him available this offseason,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[208,7,45,75,3798,46,15930,14815,15517,123,194,78,90743,48823,28373,6,471],"class_list":["post-744474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-celtics-rumors","tag-celtics-trade","tag-celtics-trade-rumors","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jaylen-brown-rumors","tag-jaylen-brown-trade","tag-jaylen-brown-trade-rumors","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116641219462679208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}