Jaylen Brown should be one of the most popular Celtics right now. Consider all that he has going for him, and all that he has achieved already:
He’s 22 years old, the former No. 3 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, and he has justified it by emerging as a core player on a winning team.
He bounded forward last season, merely his second in the NBA, providing highlights such as a 22-point performance in a November win over the Warriors, not to mention eight games of 20 or more points in the postseason.
Brown is intelligent, hard-working, jumps so high he can almost high-five the championship banners, and yet obviously has even more improvement in his future once he further tightens up his ballhandling, learns to finish with more finesse, and sees the periphery of the court better under pressure.