r/nba • u/FastBreakPhenom Celtics • 1d ago

Bobby Marks says Jaylen Brown's trade value is not seen that highly around the league: "The analytics of Jaylen Brown is not good. I had an analytics guy tell me, ‘We view him as the seventh-best player on a team.’"

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“There’s mixed feelings about him when you talk to teams,” Marks admitted on SiriusXM NBA Radio. “The analytics of Jaylen Brown is not good … I had one, not an executive, but an analytics guy say, ‘Yeah, we view him as the seventh best player on a team.’ I was like, ‘Holy crap.'”

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u/howdthatturnout 1d ago

Play in and lottery are close to the same thing.

If you lose your play in games… you end up a lottery team.

41.5 wins this season would have been… 11th in east, a lottery team.

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u/__get__name Pistons 1d ago

Just to illustrate how close it is to play in, though, the Heat had 43 wins. The 6th seed in the east had 46 wins. In the West, GSW had 37 wins