{"id":715431,"date":"2026-06-20T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715431\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:53:17","slug":"giannis-trade-dream-dying-for-trail-blazers-jaylen-brown-might-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715431\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Trade Dream Dying for Trail Blazers, Jaylen Brown Might Be Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Trail Blazers have been widely rumored to be active players in this summer\u2019s NBA trade-fest. Having ascended to the middle of the league\u2019s hierarchy, Portland may be looking to add a bona fide star to their lineup. For most of the young offseason, the Blazers have been speculated as players in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade sweepstakes. That appears to have cooled. But Sam Amick of The Athletic is speculating<\/a> that the Blazers may not have given up on a secondary target\u2014once presumed to be involved in the Antetokounmpo machinations\u2014Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are looking to make moves of their own after falling short of championship contention the past couple years. Amick reports that suitors could be in line for Boston players, especially Brown:<\/p>\n

Speaking of Plan Bs, league sources say the Portland Trail Blazers would have serious interest in Brown if the Celtics made him available. The Blazers have been among the suitors for Antetokounmpo since the February trade deadline but appear to be on the outside looking in at the moment. Also, league sources say the Minnesota Timberwolves \u2014 whose pursuit of Antetokounmpo also appears to have cooled \u2014 have strong interest in the Celtics\u2019 Derrick White.<\/p>\n

Brown averaged 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 5.1 assists for the Celtics over 71 games played last season. He\u2019s 29 years old with three years remaining on his contract, ranging from $57-65 million per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have been widely rumored to be active players in this summer\u2019s NBA trade-fest. Having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[76835,355,99],"class_list":["post-715431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}