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First Take

Hour 2: Did The Celtics Win The Jaylen Brown Trade?

First Take

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4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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First Take resumes with the league telling us exactly how they view Jaylen Brown! Trading an all-star for the worst contract in the league? Isn't this guy a perennial MVP candidate? Perhaps we, the NBA fans/analysts/die-hards need to reevaluate what he think of JB! Then, does LeBron deserve a statue in LA? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.6

Boston Celtics have traded all NBA star Jaylon Brown through the Philadelphia 76ers.

0:53.8

My goodness! Jaylon Brown can't miss! to the Philadelphia 76ers. Oh my goodness.

0:55.8

Jaylon Brown can't miss.

1:00.5

It was the trade we had all been waiting for, but was it a good one?

1:04.8

The Celtics are sending 2024 finals MVP Jalen Brown to the 76ers for Paul George,

1:30.0

two first round picks and two second round picks according to Shams. Still having a hard time wrapping my mind around the return in all of this and why the Celtics felt the need to do this right now. But Vince, as we look at the trade in totality, did the Celtics make a mistake in moving Jalen Brown?

1:36.1

Well, if we're going to have a list of Celtics mistakes, it might be longer than that list of the return and what they got back.

1:42.0

But dating back to the whole yon and stuff, dating back to everything that they wanted to put on on the table for the trade itself.

1:48.0

That 2028 first round draft pick, courtesy of the Clippers, could turn out to be very, very valuable down the line.

1:50.0

And when you look at the Celtics, if nothing else, this is a dollars and cents league.

1:53.0

This is a luxury tax second apron league.

1:56.0

He was making a lot of money around $56 million.

1:59.0

He was going to be eligible for a two-year extension worth over $70 million this summer.

2:04.6

And usually what happens in the NBA, which is why free agency has turned into trade agency.

2:09.6

Usually what happens in this league is if you don't offer your star a contract extension or star doesn't take the contract extension that means it's time for the

2:19.5

relationship between player and star to end and once they got to that point then they were going

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