Reports are saying that Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum are staying right where they are with the Boston Celtics
It feels like the Boston Celtics will never be able to hide from being connected to any significant trade target. Danny Ainge has been an active trader and they have all kinds of great pieces. The Celtics have made big moves in the past, but there is something different with this core.
No one is truly untouchable in the NBA, but Steve Bulpett revealed that there might not be anything out there that is good enough for them to move Jaylen Brown or Jayson Tatum. Now, there are a few things you can take from this, beginning with how great these guys are.
It is incredibly rare to see players their age have their impact, and after they got the results in the payoffs last year, the Celtics should believe they have the best young duo in the NBA. When you think about contracts and players leaving, having these two on their rookie contracts transforms what kind of championship window the Celtics have.
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On top of that, we know the best is yet to come, because they both know that they can improve in a lot of different ways, with the kind of potential that is difficult just to identify.
What follows from the Celtics not making Brown or Tatum available is that you cannot expect any significant trade. The Celtics have other good pieces, and a great draft pick coming form Sacramento.
Even so, when a team calls the Celtics they will be asking about Brown or Tatum, and that is the level of prospect that is needed to go out and get someone like Kawhi Leonard.
If the two of them are untouchable, that means the Celtics are going to stay put with this core. They will let these supreme talents develop behind some of the best player in the league ahead of them, and hopefully culminate in one of the most special teams we have see in a long time.
Tatum and Brown are a part of the present and the key to the future, making them more valuable than maybe any other young players in the NBA. They can contribute to a championship right now, while knowing they are in line to be the best players on a contending team down the line.
It really should come as no surprise that they are untouchable. When you take into account how good they already are, how young they are and how much better every can see they will become, there is no sense in uprooting any part of this core, no matter who you might be able to get in return.
The two of them are the kind of players and draft picks that most teams cannot even dream of, and we still have not seen everything they can offer.
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You get the sense that Ainge is always going to pick up his phone, but it also sounds like he is not going to be listening any further the moment Brown or Tatum are mentioned.