For the fourth yr operating, Flashscore presents its rating of the highest 100 NBA gamers forward of the upcoming season. In eighth place is Jaylen Brown, who finds himself in Philadelphia with a workforce constructed to problem for the title on paper however needing a transparent chief.
Jaylen Brown spent 10 seasons with the Boston Celtics after arriving within the NBA. And for many of that point, the query was: who’s the Celtics’ true chief?
He spent years attempting to show the legitimacy of his expertise alongside Jayson Tatum. When everybody pulled in the identical course, it will definitely paid off with a title. And everybody appears to have already forgotten that he was the Finals MVP that yr.
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That didn’t cease his entrance workplace from sacrificing Brown, nevertheless. He had simply carried the workforce on his personal within the absence of his co-chief, who had been sidelined by an Achilles damage, and had simply loved a season through which he was within the MVP dialog.
In reality, it was merely one of the best season of Brown’s profession. Yet your complete summer time was devoted to creating the case that buying and selling him for a Paul George nearing the tip of his profession was an excellent deal.
That might be free gas for the following chapter of his profession. He is now with the Philadelphia 76ers, with Tyrese Maxey as his second-in-command and two enormous X-components in Joel Embiid and LeBron James.
A 4-star squad for a workforce hungry for a title, on the very least. But as in any organisation, there must be a transparent chief, and that chief must be Brown.
In phrases of pure means, as we noticed final season, he’s unquestionably a high-10 NBA participant. But he’ll nonetheless need to hold sharing the highlight. His degree is effectively established; it’s his management that might be dissected.
The remaining step to the highest might be the toughest. With so many nice gamers round him, he’s unlikely to win MVP – no less than not this season. But he has the prospect to remind everybody that he’s no abnormal participant.
2025/26 stats: 28.7 factors on 47.7% capturing, together with 34.7% from three-level vary, 5.1 assists and 6.9 rebounds (71 video games)
Reasonable 2026/27 goal: 30 factors, All-NBA First Team candidate
