1. Jaylen Marselles Brown was born on October 24,1996 and is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association.
39 Facts About Jaylen Brown
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Jaylen Brown played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears and was named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference.
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Jaylen Brown is a four-time NBA All-Star and reached the Eastern Conference finals six times with Boston.
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Jaylen Brown helped the Celtics reach the 2022 and 2024 NBA Finals, winning a championship and Finals MVP award in the latter.
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Jaylen Brown attended Wheeler High School in his hometown of Marietta, Georgia.
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Jaylen Brown won a 2014 FIBA Americas Championship gold medal as part of the USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team.
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Jaylen Brown was selected to play in the 2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game.
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Jaylen Brown was rated a five-star recruit and ranked by Scout, ESPN, and 247Sports as the fourth best recruit in the class of 2015 behind Ben Simmons, Skal Labissiere, and Brandon Ingram.
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On May 1,2015, Jaylen Brown committed to play for the Golden Bears at the University of California, Berkeley, under coach Cuonzo Martin and alongside fellow top-recruit Ivan Rabb.
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Jaylen Brown was heralded as an all-around prospect due to his athleticism.
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Jaylen Brown took a masters-level class in Berkeley's Cultural Studies of Sport in Education program during his first semester in college.
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Jaylen Brown began learning Spanish, stating a goal of learning three additional languages by the age of 25.
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Jaylen Brown had his best scoring games on November 27,2015, against Richmond and January 27,2016, against Utah, recording 27 points in each game.
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Jaylen Brown had a season-high 11 rebounds twice during victories on November 23,2015, against Sam Houston State and on January 1,2016, against Colorado.
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Jaylen Brown earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors and was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.
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On June 23,2016, Jaylen Brown was selected by the Boston Celtics with the third overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft.
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Jaylen Brown helped the Celtics claim the top seed in the Eastern Conference before helping them advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, where the Celtics lost to the Cavaliers in five games.
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Jaylen Brown had a productive rookie season, with his role off the bench continuing to develop as the year went on.
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Jaylen Brown averaged 17.2 minutes on the floor, 6.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 0.8 assists in 78 games and 20 starts.
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Jaylen Brown was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team at the end of the season.
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Jaylen Brown missed two weeks in March 2018 with a concussion.
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At age 21, Jaylen Brown became the youngest player in Celtics history to score 30 or more points in a playoff game.
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The Celtics went on to win the series in seven games, with Jaylen Brown sitting out of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Philadelphia 76ers with a strained hamstring.
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In October 2019, Jaylen Brown signed a four-year, $115 million contract extension with the Celtics.
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In January, Jaylen Brown narrowly missed being selected to the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.
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Jaylen Brown sent the game to overtime by making a long three-pointer with 1.7 seconds left in regulation.
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On July 25,2023, Jaylen Brown signed a five-year contract extension worth up to $304 million, surpassing Nikola Jokic's $276 million extension as the richest deal in NBA history.
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The Celtics swept the Pacers in four games, and Jaylen Brown was named the Eastern Conference finals MVP after averaging 29.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 51.7 percent from the field and 37.0 percent from three-point range.
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Jaylen Brown became the second Celtic with 30+ points, 8+ rebounds, and 8+ assists in an NBA Finals game, joining John Havlicek.
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The Celtics went on to win the series in five games, and Jaylen Brown was named Finals MVP after averaging 20.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 5.0 assists per game while being the primary defender on Luka Doncic.
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Jaylen Brown is primarily a vegetarian and his interests include Spanish language, history, meditation, philosophy, playing instruments, and anime.
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Jaylen Brown, who is African-American, assembled a primarily African-American advisory team prior to the NBA draft, but he did not hire an agent.
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Jaylen Brown was criticized by some as "too smart" to play in the NBA, with some scouts worrying that he would grow tired of playing basketball and instead opt to pursue other career paths.
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At age 22, Jaylen Brown became the National Basketball Players Association's youngest elected vice president.
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In 2019, Jaylen Brown was named as a MIT Media Lab fellow, and he has since collaborated with the university to create the Bridge Program, which mentors Greater Boston youth and high school students of color who are interested in pursuing careers in STEM programs.
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Jaylen Brown was offered an internship with NASA, was the youngest person to ever hold a lecture at Harvard, and was in the middle of a robotics class when he learned that his agent had secured him the largest contract in NBA history.
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Jaylen Brown has a YouTube channel where he has posted several documentary-style video series depicting his life during the season and off-season workouts.
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In June 2024, Jaylen Brown performed a pilgrimage to Mecca in the form of an Umrah.
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In 2024, Jaylen Brown was accompanied by WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick during the Celtics' championship parade and later to the ESPY Awards.