One reaction to the JB for KD story out of FL:
Now it gets real for Heat regarding Bam in a KD trade.
Monday was the latest example of how nothing has to be said for messages to resonate.
Think Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens wants to deal with the fallout if Jaylen Brown is not moved in a trade with the Nets? That could be even stickier than the impending Deandre Ayton reunion with the Phoenix Suns after his free-agency fiasco.
But there is little doubt that Nets general manager Sean Marks couldn’t be more delighted.
The bar is now set after the dueling and closely timed reports from ESPN and The Athletic regarding the Celtics’ willingness to include Brown in a package for Durant.
So there it is, said, without being said, by Marks: Put forward a recent All-Star, and then we’ll talk. Brown was an All-Star in 2021, Adebayo in 2020. Each has worn the designation once.
This is how it’s done, how NBA trade tables are set.
All the more reason why it is most likely that the stories were prompted by a party that is trying to get trade talks restarted, not by teams that are waiting for the price to fall.