Live Bar, March 22 when Durant applied for a deal, Celtics were reported to use Jay Brown as a bargaining chip.
According to The Ringer reporter Logan Murdock, Celtics boss Grosbeck and President Stevens repeatedly assured Jay that he would not be traded. However, due to external rumors, Jay Lun did not fully believe this.
Jay said: “It is very difficult to feel warm in the team. I think they operate according to different principles. This is a team. They regard basketball as a business. They talk to you like this, but they will talk about other things behind closed doors, and they will regard you as a trading chip. They tell you, ‘we love you’, but they are still planning to trade you next week. I think this is the way business works.”