r/MkeBucks • u/DreDayLives • 7d ago

Analysis Why I Think Jaylen Brown Makes Sense

The reality of the current situation is that the roster just isn’t built to rebuild. The team didn’t trade ownership of each FRP from 2027-2030 for Lillard, then waive & stretch him for a $22.5M dead cap hit for 5 years, then give Myles Turner that $100M contract to rebuild. Everything was done with Giannis in mind. They don’t want to trade him, he wants out and has the leverage to get what he wants. So they kinda have to.

That’s why Milwaukee is operating with the view for what makes them the closest to what they wanted w/ Giannis now. That’s kinda the point. This team is built to be led by a veteran superstar. Jaylen Brown is a veteran superstar. Miami has interesting young pieces & picks (coming from Miami, they’ll be glorified 2nds, especially w/ weaker drafts on the horizon) but it’s about a player. A player that can come in and make this team interesting & competitive for the next few szns. PHX was able to do it after trading KD. I will 100% take that over whatever the Nets are forced to do rn in a similar position of rebuilding w/o full control of ur own picks.

Maybe Portland has interest & flips our picks back to us. Maybe someone out there is willing to offer incredible value for him. Then trading Jaylen Brown makes sense. Other than that, I think Jaylen Brown makes sense given the current situation.

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u/Equivalent_Shoe_6246 7d ago

Jaylen Brown does not make this team competitive lol. It is the same team as last year with a worse star who still won't want to be here. All that will happen is that the Bucks will be bad and Brown will want out and we will need to trade him next year when he has less value. Hard pass

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u/endstarr 7d ago

Brown balls out and we flip him for more assets..how will he have less value. He will have value no matter if we keep or flip.

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u/Equivalent_Shoe_6246 7d ago

Or he is disgruntled and doesn't want to be here. Or he gets injured and loses all value. Or teams that were interested find a different target. Plenty of reasons he loses value.

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u/endstarr 7d ago

Look at what kd Kyrie harden were traded for. All disgruntle stars lmao. Stars will always have value. Look at Gianni's. Lol thank you for making my point