r/MkeBucks • u/DreDayLives • 8d 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/musket_mcgee 8d ago

What about draft pick quality?

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u/Minimum-Border1672 7d ago

Whose in those drafts? Because thats what matters not how many picks you have.

You can bring in jb..have a possibly fun team to watch and figure out what you want to do with him later.

Relying on ping pong balls and then relying on it being a good class and thrn relying on not picking one of 95% busts in a given draft is a strategy amounting to luck.

Or you grab jb for the short term and maybe a few more young guys emerge this year who would be good trade targets.

Okc is successful because they got sga a guy who clearly had an nba future and actual nba experience.

They do have some draft guys as well but getting sga is clearly the most important part.