Celtics' Jaylen Brown Trade Ranked as Bigger Rip-Off than 2 Legendary Patriots Moves
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The Jaylen Brown trade is pretty much brand new, but it's already being ranked among the worst trades in recent sports history.
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The Celtics sent Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, and it was the kind of breaking news that you had to read about four times to believe that it was really happening.
An article by Bleacher Report's Lee Escobedo attempts to put the JB trade into perspective, and it's not a positive one for Boston.
The rankings are about the worst trades in sports this century -- and Escobedo ranks the Brown deal at No. 6, with only five being worse than it.
"Trading a co-star to a random contender stings. Trading him to the rival who eliminated you—and one you'll play four times a year—takes a special kind of front-office cockiness," Escobedo writes. "Even Brown seemed thrown by it. Boston had reportedly been shopping Brown for Giannis Antetokounmpo weeks earlier. The Celtics aimed for a superstar swap and settled for handing a division rival exactly what it needed to get scarier. The picks might age well. But this decision never will."
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Ironically, this move is right behind another Celtics deal on the list, a positive Boston one -- when they swapped the pick used on Markelle Fultz for the pick used on Jayson Tatum.
"Given the long-term fallout for both franchises, this deal continues to age worse and worse," Escobedo writes. "The only silver lining for the Sixers is that they eventually traded Fultz for the pick that they'd spend on Tyrese Maxey."
It's a rankings list filled with a Boston flavor.
At least for Boston sports fans, there's a few more positive moves, too.
The trade that got Wes Welker from the Dolphins ranks as No. 14 worst deal from a Miami perspective (and a great one for the Pats).
And the trade that got Randy Moss from the Raiders to the Patriots ranks as 12th-worst from the perspective of Oakland giving up Moss.
And way up at No. 3 is the Nets making the brutal trade for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett that landed the Celtics picks to get Tatum and, yep, Brown.