Last summer, there was speculation that Jaylen Brown was going to be traded from the Boston Celtics. Furthermore, the rumors were that Derrick White was going with Brown in a trade.
Jaylen Brown has put together the best all-around season of his career. That’s less opinion than fact at this point. The Boston Celtics forward is averaging 28.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 5.1 assists while carrying the team through most of the season without Jayson Tatum.
Before Jayson Tatum debuted for the Boston Celtics this season, there were legitimate talks surrounding how he would get along with Jaylen Brown, especially on the leadership side of things. Nobody expected the Celtics to be a playoff team this year.
The Boston Celtics defied the preseason predictions by climbing and staying in the upper echelons of the Eastern Conference. Despite leading this short-handed ragtag squad by being the literal definition of a ‘valuable player’ to the team, Jaylen Brown feels the opposite.
Heroes run the NBA, but every story also needs a villain. For some franchises, it's a particularly hated opponent, but every now and then, it's one of their own.
Thursday night brings one of the season's most anticipated matchups, a possible NBA Finals preview between the Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder. But will Jayson Tatum be in the lineup for Boston?
Three-time NBA All-Star has defended NBA Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony over his highly contested comments on Jayson Tatum’s return. Anthony’s comments on the Boston Celtics star raised eyebrows among fans after he suggested that Tatum had set aside personal ego as he reintegrated with his teammates.
By the time Jaylen Brown was ejected from Tuesday night’s 125-116 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, Boston Celtics teammate Ron Harper Jr. had already scored eight points.
Basketball has changed so, so much since it was first played in the late 1800s. The NBA has a lot to do with this, and there are even a handful of players who can be credited with influencing significant shifts on their own.
Boston Celtics guard Derrick White didn’t hold back in sharing his thoughts about teammate Jaylen Brown’s double-technical foul ejection in a 125-116 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.
Some NBA fans may have missed it given that Bam Adebayo somehow went for a second-in-NBA-history and Kobe-eclipsing 83 points last night in a win over the Wizards, but Jaylen Brown got ejected from the Spurs-Celtics game on some true nonsense after he argued a missed call in the first half.
Jayson Tatum criticized the officiating following the Boston Celtics 125–116 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night, calling a referee “trigger happy” after teammate Jaylen Brown was ejected early in the game.
John Tonje has had a whirlwind couple of months. The 24-year-old guard was traded from the Utah Jazz to the Celtics in the trade that sent Chris Boucher to Utah, and quickly became the Celtics’ third two-way player.
Jaylen Brown was ejected from the Boston Celtics loss to the San Antonio Spurs Tuesday night after getting hit with two technical fouls for arguing a non-call. The ejection came with about three-and-a-half minutes to play in the first half, leaving Boston without their best player this season.
The Boston Celtics increased their lead over the third-place New York Knicks on Monday night, by doing nothing more than sitting in their hotel rooms in San Antonio. That's because the Knicks lost again, their second-straight loss and third in their last four games.
The Boston Celtics have thrived this season with Derrick White playing the role of one of the lead scorers. The Celtics are in second place in the Eastern Conference and have accomplished this with Jayson Tatum sidelined due to an Achilles injury.
Of the Boston Celtics reserves making key contributions this season, second-year guard Baylor Scheierman has given the C's some really good minutes over the past month or so.
The Boston Celtics will be without veteran center Nikola Vucevic for a while. Vucevic underwent surgery Saturday morning to stabilize a fracture in the ring finger on his right shooting hand.