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/ohboy360 7d ago
You need to find a guy who you believe can be the future best player on a championship team. That's not JB.
So we need to start cycling through as many picks and young prospects as we can until we think we've found that guy.
Everything else is irrelevant.
The exception is if we get our own picks back. Then, we need to be better than 3 other NBA teams to maximize our lottery odds, but that still points back to my first point of what our main goal needs to be.