One of the biggest trades in N-B-A history dropped Wednesday — and the Eastern Conference will never be the same.
The Boston Celtics have agreed to send franchise cornerstone Jaylen Brown to the rival Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers in exchange for veteran forward Paul George, two future first-round picks, and two future second-round picks.
Brown — the two-thousand-twenty-four N-B-A Finals M-V-P — just came off the best season of his career, averaging twenty-eight-point-seven points, six-point-nine rebounds, and five-point-one assists per game while carrying Boston to fifty-six wins with Jayson Tatum sidelined most of the year recovering from Achilles surgery. Brown will now team up in Philadelphia with Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey — the same Sixers squad that eliminated Boston in the first round of this past postseason.
Boston gets back a thirty-six-year-old Paul George, who averaged seventeen-point-three points per game last season, along with Philadelphia’s twenty-twenty-eight and twenty-thirty-one first-round picks.
The deal ends Brown’s decade-long run in Boston — a run that included five All-Star selections, a championship, and a Finals M-V-P trophy. Celtics president Brad Stevens swings for the fences again — whether this one lands is a whole other question.
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