Rockets Rumors: Trade For Celtics Star Jaylen Brown After Ime Udoka Hire?

Jaylen Brown and Ime Udoka worked together with the Boston Celtics last season.
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The Houston Rockets are checking off the biggest item of their long offseason to-do list by hiring Ime Udoka as the franchise's next head coach.

Udoka is the first domino in an effect that should completely change what the organization looked like at the end of its 22-60 campaign this past season.

Improving the coaching staff was important, and Udoka should bring in a staff that will help him build a strong foundation in Houston. The next step is to improve the quality of players, and Udoka's relationships could help ... especially in the case of Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown, who has been linked to the Rockets for some time.

Brown, 26, is averaging a career-best 26.6 points per game this season with the Celtics and is also shooting 49.1 percent from the field.

He's entering the final year of his contract in 2023-24, which could behoove the Celtics to make a trade for him this summer. As the organization with the most cap space in the NBA, the Rockets are one of a handful of teams that could trade for Brown and offer him an extension.

Trading for Brown, with the experience he has with Udoka, could be a strong foundation for a Rockets rebuild coupled with the young, promising prospects the team has drafted over the past few years.


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Jeremy Brener is an editor, writer and social media manager who has been with On SI since 2021. Brener graduated in May 2020 from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism minoring in Sport Business Management. While at UCF, Brener worked for the school's newspaper NSM.today and "Hitting the Field," a student-run sports talk show and network. He was the executive producer for "Hitting the Field" from 2019-20.