Jaylen Brown is back in Boston on Saturday, with Philadelphia. Ten seasons with the Celtics, then a trade in July for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-rounders. On Friday, on Twitch, he said it was like running into your ex in public: you look at each other, you say “dang”, and you carry on. That’s BasketNews reporting it. He added that he was super excited.
Exes, I’ve got a club bar full of them, mind you.
Almost twenty years as president means players who left for Ciney, for Andenne, elsewhere. And they come back. Not with a livestream: with a sports bag and the other team. They come in by the door next to the changing rooms, they see the notice board by the club bar, they see the heating still making its noise, and they pull exactly the face this lad describes. “Dang.” Then they come over to say hello, and I serve them a coffee for a token, like before. The token wasn’t traded.
Over there, a trade is one player for one player and four draft picks. For us, a departure is a shirt we never get back and a seat in the minibus that frees up. We’ve got a minibus, and it starts, even with an empty seat.
Visitors on the right. The coffee doesn’t change column.
I’m not jealous, I’m a club president. I just hope that in Boston on Saturday, someone keeps him a coffee. And that after the return game in Philadelphia, someone stacks the chairs in both halls. I’ve still got the key to hand back.
It’s true, we checked: BasketNews.
