felt disrespected<\/a> by the Celtics\u2019 handling of the trade, believing he deserved more transparency than the franchise afforded him.<\/p>\n\u201cI will say we had several talks. If he feels that way, then I\u2019m sorry about that,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI am, genuinely. Because he\u2019s a meaningful person in all of our lives and certainly mine. Like I said, we had a lot of open discussions about here or elsewhere. And even, I would say he and at least his agent were well aware of even teams that had the most cursory interest. So at least that was well communicated, or at least communicated. And so we tried to do that to the best of our abilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs things get further down the line, it\u2019s complicated to ultimately get it over the finish line, with any deal. But I\u2019m sorry that he feels that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown was the subject of rampant trade rumors in recent weeks, with those intensifying after the Celtics\u2019 attempt to flip him for Giannis Antetokounmpo failed. When the market for his services was more tepid than expected, he faced criticism from pundits and anonymous sources over his advanced metrics, contract value and personality.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do your best you can at being upfront before that could possibly happen,\u201d Stevens said. \u201c\u2026 If I didn\u2019t do a great job with it, I think we\u2019ll probably both have different versions of that, of what those conversations looked like, but I do think that\u2019s what I would regret, not necessarily for any other reason (than) I just, you know, I like Jaylen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Stevens said he did not solicit Jayson Tatum\u2019s input before trading his longtime co-star.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a real hard, fast rule that I don\u2019t ask other guys about other guys, because it\u2019s not \u2013 I don\u2019t want to put them in that position,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so he had none.\u201d<\/p>\n
What was Tatum\u2019s reaction to the move?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Jayson and Jaylen \u2013 I mean, Jayson is a friend of Jaylen, right?\u201d Stevens said. \u201cAnd so, we have not talked in great depth about that. I think that, again, I didn\u2019t keep him in the loop. I didn\u2019t talk to him the next day. I didn\u2019t want to put that on him or anyone else that\u2019s in the playing group. I know how little I sleep (I got). Nobody else needs to feel that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think ultimately, when you put in the work and the sweat with somebody for nine years, there\u2019s obviously going to be a great appreciation for that person.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Stevens dropped one schedule-related nugget: The Celtics and 76ers will play each other twice this preseason and four times during the regular season. It\u2019s not yet clear when Brown will visit TD Garden for the first time as a visitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Philly part, I\u2019m with you,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cThat is a hard thing to trade a guy that you, first of all, care so much about, and secondly, you have so much respect and admiration for, to a team that just beat you in the playoffs and that you\u2019re going to literally play six times before the playoffs next year with our two preseason games. But I do think that ultimately, when you do a deal, you have to be thinking about you first and the optionality it creates for you.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I was being honest, if that exact deal came from a team out West and you were comparing the two, then you\u2019d probably take the team out West. But that\u2019s not the way it would work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and majority owner Bill Chisholm addressed reporters for nearly 45 minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[57028,2242,39050,320741,13034,312842,29175,308571,5488,355,60519,99],"class_list":["post-747370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bill-chisholm","tag-boston-celtics","tag-brad-stevens","tag-brad-stevens-press-conference","tag-celtics","tag-celtics-trade","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jaylen-brown-trade","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-nba","tag-paul-george","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747370","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=747370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}