Jaylen Brown Traded From Celtics to 76ers
Philadelphia rated its chances slim, but a Giannis chase gone wrong in Boston opened the door to one of the NBA's biggest recent trades.
The 76ers were not among the front-runners for Brown when talks began. That changed only after the Celtics lost out to Miami in the race for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Brown's name had already come up during those talks, and from that point a move for him started to look real.
Even then, Philadelphia rated its own chances as slim. The expectation inside the league was that Boston would rather send an All-NBA-calibre player to a Western Conference side than hand an upgrade to a direct rival in the Atlantic Division.
Brown ended up in Philadelphia anyway, in what stands as one of the biggest trades in the NBA in recent years.
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