Veteran journeyman wing Anthony Brown is set to work out for the Celtics this week, per Ennio Terrasi Borghesan of Sportando.
Drafted with the No. 34 selection out of Stanford in 2015 by the Lakers, Brown played sparingly for the Lakers and their NBA G League affiliate, then called the Los Angeles D-Fenders (now the South Bay Lakers). In the NBA, he later played for the Pelicans, Magic, and Timberwolves, in addition to suiting up for the NBAGL affiliates for the latter two teams.
Brown played just 41 games across three NBA seasons. He holds averages of 3.9 PPG and 2.5 RPG in 18.6 MPG. Since his last league stint during the 2017/18 NBA season, Brown has played for a variety of international clubs in Serbia, France, and Spain.
The Celtics currently have 14 players inked to guaranteed deals on their 2021/22 roster, and just one of their two-way player slots filled.
There’s more out of the Atlantic Division:
- Sixers All-Star Ben Simmons has lost a lot of his trade value following a disappointing postseason performance. In a new mailbag column, Derek Bodner of The Athletic explains that he would be open to Philadelphia team president Daryl Morey targeting draft picks as the primary return in a Simmons deal. By making this kind of move, Morey and his front office team could potentially deal for a star player beyond the caliber of the personnel teams may be making available for Simmons at present.
- Former Knicks point guard Frank Ntilikina, the eighth draft pick in 2017, never lived up to his promise while with New York. Moke Hamilton of Basketball News examines the forces at fault for the current free agent’s underwhelming first four seasons. Then-team president Phil Jackson generally shoulders much of the blame for selecting Ntilikina in the draft ahead of Donovan Mitchell, Bam Adebayo, and Malik Monk, all lottery-caliber players drafted after the 6’4″ guard who have already proven themselves to be NBA mainstays. “[Ntilikina] obviously had the physical gifts to be an impact player in the league, but there were two or three other guys that got support because they seemed much safer,” a Knicks source told Hamilton. Hamilton also opines that the team’s lack of stability in its coaches hurt Ntilikina’s development. In four seasons, the point guard played for four different head coaches. Hamilton speculates that, should Ntilikina want to remain in the NBA this season, the 23-year-old should be able to find a team willing to take a flyer on the defensive specialist.
- In case you missed it, new Lakers center DeAndre Jordan‘s departure from the Nets apparently became inevitable after the team retained Blake Griffin this summer, in addition to signing Paul Millsap and LaMarcus Aldridge. Promising big man Nicolas Claxton also leaped ahead of Jordan in the center rotation during the 2020/21 season.
Frank should get another shot somewhere.
Plus, I can’t believe that writer included Malik monk as a “mainstay” in same breath as Donovan and Bam. Monk has mostly underwhelmed in his career so was benched, but only last season showed some scoring punch as 6th man type bc of injury issues.
He was the obvious pick at the time when the Knicks were on the clock, so that’s probably why he included him. Monk hasn’t been great, but he’s always been more valuable than Nkilitina.
Best Simmons trade is in December and with PHX for CP3 and Bridges.
Sixers: Simmons and Danny Green or Thybulle (depends on how good CP3 looks)
PhX: CP3 and Bridges (mom works for Sixers or did)
I assume the Sixers are also giving up 2-3 first round picks, right?
CP3 isn’t being traded for Simmons dude. He’s bonded with this team and Simmons has proven he’s nowhere near a leader. That’s a dumb suggestion, no offense to you personally.
I think Simmons and Booker have beef over the Jenner thing.
Aaa yes, the “we dont need aging Chris Paul cuz we have developing young guys at that postion (namely frankie smokes)” argument knicks fans had last off season)))
I think that fans today put to much wieght to having developing young players and tanking for picks. This strategy is basically teaching losing to everyone. What happened to having a good team with winning culture?
Rebuilding is a good trick for front office people to keep their jobs longer – you cant evaluate Rockets GM until he uses all those picks.
Simmons will continue to be a distraction. Hopefully he has been smart enough to work k. His shot!
Anthony Brown should get picked up somewhere
Bodner is a complete and utter moronic idiot.
An educated argument would be a better approach
Raps should give Ntilikina a chance at backup pg instead of continuing the charade with the current GL back up.
Bodner has a good point, that picks have the easiest resale value, and would get the issue reolved by the year’s start.
This thing where fans compare the value of various players just leads to silly posts, including ones where posters seem to be negotiating, like they suppose they matter.
Since next year shapes up to be a poor FA year, the best way to get win-now talent will be to have picks to trade.
This plan will also (partly) prevent fans from comparing Simmons to the haul and declaring a loser, something a GM cares about for keeping his job.
This plan also gets more teams into the bidding since having to match talent does not matter. Specifically, OKC, which may feel swamped with youth already and are facing an unhappy ShaiGA. It may be too late to even keep Shai. Actually Shai would be a great basis to deal Simmons for.
I guess we’re not done reading about FrnkNtkn.