Jaylen Brown has amassed the globe this offseason and that includes a stop to his hometown of Atlanta last week. The Celtics star appeared in studio on the Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee on V-103 FM. Brown was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia and that led to the host Darian Morgan opening the door to Brown possibly playing in Atlanta during his career, setting up an interesting exchange.
Morgan: Is there any chance we see you in a hometown uniform?
Brown: You never know.
Morgan: I would love to see you play for the hometown.
Brown: I feel you. I think my grandma would too.
Morgan: Your grandma been talking to you about it?
Brown: Yeah, but you never know. We’ll see.
The speculative question means little for the present, as Brown is currently under contract for four more years in Boston after signing a supermax extension in the summer of 2023. Brown is set to make $53.1 million in the second-year of that $285 million contract during the 2025-26 season. Brown and several other players on the Celtics roster had their names emerge in trade rumors earlier this summer amid a luxury tax financial crunch, but it ended up being Kristaps Porzingis (Atlanta) and Jrue Holiday (Blazers) as the main pieces heading out the door.
Brown is clearly eager to lead the Celtics next season with Jayson Tatum sidelined due to his Achilles tear, but the Hawks are currently positioned to have significant cap space next summer and would certainly be a team to keep an eye on if the Celtics end up considering Brown inquiries a year or two down the road. They have shown interest in the past in Boston’s star, and reports indicate that they don’t intend to extend star point guard Trae Young’s contract as he enters the final year of his deal. Those developments don’t mean anything, though, as long as the Celtics are committed to Brown as part of their core.
“We’ve got a good group,” Brad Stevens said in June. “We’ve got the foundation, obviously with Jaylen and Jayson and D-White and Payton and all those guys that a lot of teams would love to have.”
Brown also voiced his excitement about taking on a leading role next season in Boston on the heels of the team’s second-round exit.
“I thought that we fought, we was in a lot of battles and there’s a lot to be excited for,” Brown said. “This journey is not the end it’s not the end for me. I’m looking forward to coming back stronger, so you just take this with your chin up. I know Boston, it looks gloomy right now, obviously with JT being out and us kind of ending the year, but it’s a lot to look forward to. I want the city to feel excited about that. This is not the end so I’m looking forward to what’s next.”
The Celtics begin training camp at the Auerbach Center in three weeks.
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