Started in Detroit in 2018, the career of Bruce Brown really took off in Brooklyn where, for two seasons between 2020 and 2022, the muscular back established himself in the league as a valuable “role player”, alongside, the rare times when they were both available at the same time, by Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
Now a solid contributor to the rotation of the Nuggets, joined this summer via “free agency” after the summer transfer request from “KD” which announced the beginning of the end for the side of Barclays Center, the former Miami college was also in Brooklyn yesterday with his team, victorious from the Nets.
An opportunity obviously not to be missed for local journalists to ask him his opinion on the sad end, last month, of the project started in the summer of 2019.
” No, [je ne suis pas surpris]. Truly not. To be honest, I don’t think anyone is, given what happened. They both requested a transfer a few months apart… » he said at the New York Post, without dwelling too much on the question but visibly satisfied to have left before everything collapsed for good. ” Summer was rough for them […] We knew it could end at any moment. Then they started to play well this season, but the situation with Kyrie arose. It’s the end of an era, quite simply. »
Also a former member, like Bruce Brown, of Sean Marks’ short-lived Big Apple project, Jeff Green also supported the totally predictable nature of the events of the last trade deadline.
” I can’t say I’m particularly surprised also concluded the veteran. ” But at the end of the day, we know that this league is a business. The various stakeholders gradually lost control of the situation, and the life of the project ran out. »