re: Chad Ford: “Jaylen Brown had an incredible workout” for the Pelicans.

It could be coming from his agent.

Drafting Jaylen Brown is probably the most "Dell Demps" move that we could make in this draft. If we draft him and Hield and Murray are still on the board.......he should be fired on spot and sent back home.

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I find it incredibly suspicious that the Pels are letting people know that Brown crushed his workout. They are usually tight-lipped and they let everyone know this?

Cui bono?

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This time of year and specifically int this crazy off season you just never know lol.

I could 100% see the Pels leaking this purposefully to maybe goat Boston into reconsidering him after they were so high on two guys the Pels have seemingly been linked to in Murray and Hield.

Boston takes Brown(or someone trades in for him) and we get the choice of at least 2 of 3 guard prospects.

Or maybe the Pels leak this thinking they can lay the seeds for a trade if Brown falls to move back and grab a player and maybe wrangle another late first or a first next season in the expected better draft?

Its the time of year speculation isnt automatically crazy conspiracy stuff haha.

Or maybe it's "Stop calling Tim about moving up to 7 instead of trading for our 6th pick or I will draft Brown to spite you. I'm probably going to get fired anyway, you think who I pick matters?"

I get that you don't like the moves that Demps has made, but to be fair drafting a raw kid over upperclassmen with NBA ready skills is not a very "Dell Demps" move at all. If we draft Brown I would be expecting a trade.

WE NEED NBA READY SKILLS! We have AD for 5 more years. Brown will probably take 4 -5 years to fully develop, and that's not even guaranteeing that he reaches his potential. We need to win NOW. Hield amd Murray can come in and contribute right away heavily. We don't have a shooting guard. We need players that CAN SHOOT. And yeah we should trade our pick. That's been working out really well for us lately.

I honestly never watched a game of his when he was at Cal. How good was he? Does he have the potential to be a very good player, especially for us?

He is a Michael Kidd-gilchrist clone. He can drive but can't shoot. We need people who can do BOTH.

The thing with MKG is that he also has a work ethic and passion that is up there at Buddy Hield levels.

Brown so far is admittedly a man of many passions outside of basketball.

He definitely comes off like one of those players that is going with the game because it's gonna get him paid and he sort of likes it but is never going to be the first guy in the gym or the last guy out.

For a raw prospect it's kinda why I don't 100% hate the Julian Wright comparisons despite there being the equivalent IQ of a highly functioning downs kid in the gap seperating Julian Wright and Jaylen Brown's own respective IQ's.

Hield 1st, Murray if Hield is gone. I don't know why but I get major superstar vibes from Hield. Murray can also be a superstar as well. Plus we need a starting shooting guard.