Simmons sends Jaylen Brown and Jrue Holiday to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Fred VanVleet, Jabari Smith Jr., Tari Eason and the No. 10 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft in his transaction. Understandably, the hypothetical trade raised a lot of eyebrows on social media. So Simmons took to X to explain his reasoning behind the blockbuster.

Bill Simmons proposed a Celtics blockbuster trade on Sunday that would send Jaylen Brown to the Houston Rockets.

The Boston Celtics are still alive in the playoffs, but things aren't going to get better with them down 3-1 and Jayson Tatum out for the remainder of the postseason because of an Achilles injury. There's also a very good chance that Tatum will be out for most of next season, which means the future of the Celtics' core is up in the air.

With Jayson Tatum likely to miss next season due to injury, there is more talk than ever about the Celtics potentially cutting payroll costs.

Simmons made clear that he absolutely does not want the Celtics to trade Brown, but if the franchise felt they had no other choice, it may end up offloading Brown as a "last resort." The trade concept from Simmons was floated in the scenario that the team had reached the conclusion that keeping Brown was simply not an option.

On this day, the Boston Celtics won their 14th championship, beating the Houston Rockets in Game 6 of the 1981 NBA Finals.