Boston Celtics: DK wants NY Knicks to trade for Jaylen Brown

I don’t blame fellow Fansider Chris Gallagher for wanting the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics to come to an agreement to send Jaylen Brown to the Big Apple.

That said, despite wanting the Cs All-Star, Mick Jagger said it best:

You can’t always get what you want.

Daily Knicks want to rob the Cs blind, which is something that has never happened in the history of the two teams’ transactional history. In fact, you could make a case that in landing Bob McAdoo and Nate Robinson in their first and last deals, they definitively won two of the three trades they ever made.

The deal in mind would keep Julius Randle, R.J. Barrett, and Mitchell Robinson in orange and blue and add Brown to that young core. New President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens isn’t likely to make a rookie mistake that profound. Any hypothetical deal would have to include one of Barrett or Robinson and the Knicks’ only All-Star Randle.

Stevens probably doesn’t move a proven postseason performer in Brown for Randle, who didn’t exactly set the Garden on fire with his 7/22 3-point shooting and failure to shoot above 40% any game of the series on high volume. He did rebound well, but it was almost outdone by his frequent turnovers (23) throughout the gentleman’s sweep at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks.

If anything, moving Brown would have to yield an upgrade such as Damian Lillard or Karl-Anthony Towns. Building for the future would be the other thing on the agenda for Stevens to move Brown to New York, with the Knicks giving up one of Barrett or Robinson, Obi Toppin, Kevin Knox, and a minimum of two picks.

That conversation isn’t one the Houdini wants to even have, though. The Jays need to be surrounded with a pass-first point guard, a knock-down stretch-big, or a switch-heavy unit filled with lengthy defenders to disrupt the isolation offenses of Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden.

Or, Brown needs to be dealt for a clear upgrade. What DK has in mind isn’t that. The Boston Celtics could do better but truly shouldn’t explore the trading Brown option.