“When it happened, I didn’t really have anything to say,” Jaylen Brown said at Media Day on Monday, when prompted on learning that Marcus Smart had been traded. “I was kinda like, we was in limbo for a couple of days. I played with [Marcus] Smart for the majority of my career. Smart is — no matter what jersey he has on that’s my brother. I feel the same way about Rob [Williams III].”
After what was a wild summer, the Celtics will enter the 2023-24 campaign without half of their top-8 players from last spring’s playoff rotation.