Nightcap Hour 2: Celtics GM Brad Stevens SPEAKS on Jaylen Brown TRADE + Jayson Tatum BREAKS SILENCE on Jaylen Brown Trade + LeBron TAKING Philly SERIOUS + Lakers VALUE Reaves OVER LeBron + Lakers INTERESTED in Kuminga + Rui Hachimura SIGNS With Clippers

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
All right, guys, check this out. I don't know if I've ever heard somebody talk more after they traded a player than what the Celtics are doing about JB, Jaylen Brown, but let's take a look.
Celtics GM Brad Stevens spoke about the decision to trade Jaylen Brown. Let's take a listen to what he had to say.

**Brad Stevens** (0:17)
I lost sleep over the fan part of this. I get it. There's a bunch of seven jerseys around. I'm pretty sure I bought a couple. So, I get it and the unbelievable way we've played in the regular season in the last couple of years, you know, the path looked a little bit more challenging to me.
I might be wrong. I'm not going to stand up here and be defensive about that. But the path looked a little bit more challenging with 70% of our cap and such a high percent of our usage tied into two players.
And the reality in this era and in this day and age, at the NBA, and you could see it, obviously, with the last couple of champions and some of the teams that were at the very top of the league when it was all said and done at the end of this year is that, you know, you have to do a great job and you have to have the optionality to do a great job of building out depth that can hopefully replace the irreplaceable individual.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:21)
So, let me get this right. I'm going to make sure, for context, he said, one of the reasons and it just could be the only reason, but I think there are a lot of things, two things, three things, four things could be true.
He said, one of the reasons that he didn't want to have guys with high usage rate, two guys with high usage rate and taking up 70% of the cap. Now, mind you, you were trying to trade for Yannis, who wanted 35% of your cap, which would have been two guys again, having half the cap and another guy that has an extremely high usage rate. It might be higher than both JB and JT's, so you were looking to bring him on and that one will be no issue. The issue seems to be Yannis wanted three years, you seem to be only go to two. But the mere fact you was willing to bring somebody on, to eat up 30% of your cap, so now you're back to 70% of two guys, and somebody with a high usage rate.
I'm not so sure Chad, I didn't look at this and I apologize. Look this up, let's see where Yannis usage rate is compared to JB and JT.
It's probably higher. I'm confused, Joe. It's for sure higher. His usage rate is for sure higher. Look man, I think we all figured that they did want to pay two guys hell, the bulk of the money, and you wanted to be able to have some flexibility and options to where you could build out your team. And I just think, I thought JB made it easier for them. I think they've been wanting to get rid of them, Uncle Ocho, and the timing, I'm not even saying the timing was right considering really what you got, but you knew you had to get off of him. You know, considering the fact that he about to get rid of come up on another contract, you was going to have to pay, you right, if they had got you on his head, you was going to have to pay him too. You still were going to be paying two guys because he wasn't going to take no damn haircut. And that's basically what Brad Stevens said. You know, basically, hell, we hope, you know, that some guys take haircuts, you know, to where you can build out a roster to where you can have depth and you can have a championship caliber team. I hope we find a Jaylen, we hope we find a Jaylen Brunson.

**Chad Johnson** (3:32)
Absolutely, absolutely not.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:35)
Hey.

**Chad Johnson** (3:37)
They need, hey, they need, I was gonna say, they need to hurry up and wrap this up now.
Celtic, I mean, Celtics, there's nothing else to talk about. There should be no more Jaylen Brown conversation. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:49)
They, well, Ocho, he had to get on, he had to respond because there's a lot of questions, you know, about this trade.

**Chad Johnson** (3:56)
Okay, I understand that part, but I don't want to be a continuing dialogue that's going to carry all goddamn year long.