Jaylen Brown

Jaylen Brown and fellow under-25 superstar Jayson Tatum have carried the Boston Celtics to the 2022 NBA Finals. Brown and his Celtics will take on Stephen Curry ...

The availability and effectiveness of Oregon State alum Gary Payton II might have a lot of say in how Jaylen Brown fare offensively in this series. Dating back to his Cal days, Jaylen Brown has always had the ability and desire to attack the basket. To his credit, Jaylen’s turnovers per game has only increased slightly from 2.2 to 2.7 with the jump in usage, but they are a bit higher still at 3.0 for the 2022 playoffs. From the highlights above, Jaylen Brown has always been a great dunker and unafraid, though also kind of reckless, in attacking the rim. But fast forward, we got healthy, we got everybody back and now the sky’s the limit.” Brown got a big 50 points game earlier this year. But in reality, early in the season we had a new coach, we had a new front office, I missed about 15 games early in the season and that caused us to not be clicking on all cylinders like we wanted to be. The advanced NBA stats show that his usage rate has gone way up and Brown has turned those extra touches effectively into assists. He might need to replicate that effort in a couple of games for the Celtics to win their first title since 2008, when they had another Cal alum in Leon Powe. In this 2022 run, Brown is averaging 22.9 points per game with 3.5 assists. “That trade talk was loud, and most of it came from Boston fans,” Brown told Haynes. “It’s a city that doesn’t tolerate excuses. His ability to create shots does set him apart from some of the other wing players in the NBA and give him the higher ceiling of being a NBA superstar.

A six-year old clip of a then-college freshman Jaylen Brown during the 2016 NBA Finals resurfaces at the perfect time for the Celtics star.

He’s dreamt to be in the Finals for many years for the sole reason of getting a shot at an NBA championship. Right before Game 1 against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, an old clip of Brown during his college days has resurfaced. Jaylen Brown is now in his first NBA Finals after six long years.

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Jaylen Brown saw a trip to the NBA Finals coming before almost everyone else. But can he help get the Celtics over the hump? Our Chris Forsberg explains ...

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Jaylen Brown saw a trip to the NBA Finals coming before almost everyone else. But can he help get the Celtics over the hump? Our Chris Forsberg explains ...

If the Celtics lean on their defense and their offense is unleashed a bit away from the grind of the East gauntlet, then this team can win this series. The Celtics haven’t always played to their late-season level in the playoffs but they’ve always found a way to win. "It's crazy,” said Williams. "Around the same time JB made that tweet, I was talking to Ime in the kitchen at the practice facility. And, keeping with the theme, we can see Boston misfiring with a chance to close out at home in Game 6 only to fly 3,000 miles and produce another monster road win -- this one delivering Banner 18. But the core of this team used that as motivation to fuel a second-half surge that saw Boston emerge as the best team in basketball over the final three months of the regular season. Boston immediately dropped Game 5 to the Bucks but rallied to prevail in the series. It’s become a calling card as this team took on the personality of its coach. If anything, it was more encouraging to learn from my mistakes and get better … I didn't have any time to question myself or question what was in front of me because my belief was so strong.” "Coming into the league, knowing I wanted to be in that position, knowing I wanted to build that type of locker room environment [where] you could sustain winning. Brown’s energy-shifting tweet might have been more about Mercury’s retrograde than a suggestion the Celtics were about to take flight. Boston’s defensive rating spiked to 132.7 in the 28 minutes without Brown. "Being here at Cal, at Berkeley, going to a lot of [Warriors] game, being on the floor," explained Brown. "Nick Kerr was my teammate, which is Steve Kerr's son.