Jaylen Brown just wants to know what it was that got him traded after he just finished the best season of his career and carried the Boston Celtics to a 56-win season without co-star Jayson Tatum for much of the year.In his first public comments since he was shockingly traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, Brown said there had to be “more to it” than his play on the court. And in Brown’s mind, the saga that led to him being dealt to the 76ers wasn’t a fair turn of events.“There was definitely a message being sent, and that message was received,” the five-time All-Star said Thursday on his Twitch stream. “I wasn’t thrilled with the amount of respect that was shown during this process.“I think there was a bit of a lack of respect. It was fine at one point, and then out of nowhere things just kind of went left. I think (team president of basketball operations) Brad (Stevens) is probably getting a lot of the criticism. I wasn’t thrilled with the way he facilitated some of the conversations. But I definitely think there’s more to it.”Whatever that “more” was, Brown said Stevens didn’t tell him.“I just wish that the ‘more to it’ could have been explained to me,” Brown, the 2024 NBA Finals MVP, said on the stream. “If ‘the more to it’ was explained, I think I would have understood. I thought I earned enough respect to get that explanation, but hey, obviously I was wrong.”Why did the Celtics trade Jaylen Brown?Jay King and Jeshua KiddWith Tatum sidelined for much of the 2025-26 season recovering from a torn Achilles, Brown averaged career highs of 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists, leading Boston to the No. 2 seed in the East. But the Celtics fell in the first round after blowing a 3-1 lead to the 76ers.