Picture the following scenario in your own work life.

Let's say you work in an office, and you are part of a team. You and your teammates work well together and get the job done and your company is in a good spot. Shareholders are happy. Corporate is happy. Your direct boss is happy.

Now, one of your best teammates goes on a long sabbatical. It's naturally assumed that the team's production will suffer without this person. In fact, even your team assumes it will happen.

But it doesn't. Because you step up. You step up and the team's level is basically at the same level as it was before, even without the aforementioned teammate.

You know the teammate is coming back, and you're excited about it, but you also would like a little credit for keeping the thing afloat. A raise would be nice, wouldn't it? If not a raise, how about a preferred parking spot? If not that, how about an "Employee of the Month" nomination?

Oh, you won't get any of those things? In fact, instead of any of those things, you hear through the grapevine that your salary is going to get cut.

You'd certainly be upset, wouldn't you? "How could they do this to me?" "Don't they know I helped keep this thing successful? "Where's the loyalty in that?" "I want out of this place."

It's a long-winded metaphor, but you'd understand it in the business world, and you'd understand if it happened to you. Well, that's apparently what's happening with Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics.

According to reports in the Boston Globe, Brown is frustrated with the organization following a season in which he led the Celtics to a 56-26 record, largely without running mate Jayson Tatum.

Of course he's frustrated. Not only is he not getting public praise. He's not even getting loyalty from the organization: They tried to trade him for an older and more broken down player in Giannis Antetokounmpo. 

How could they do that to him? Especially after he's given the organization a decade of his career. Especially after he's helped take it to two NBA Finals - and one Finals victory.

If he's upset, it's completely understandable. 

The only question now is "what happens next?" Do the Celtics, with no real leverage, trade him for pennies on the dollar? Or, do they keep him and try to make it work? And how would that even look? 

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