Celtics, Jaylen Brown reportedly ‘assured’ to get extension finished, even when it doesn’t occur straight away

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Brown grew to become extension eligible at midnight on Saturday.

Jaylen Brown can signal a five-year, $295 million extension this offseason.

Jaylen Brown grew to become eligible to signal a super-max cope with Celtics shortly after midnight Saturday morning. Not like Kristaps Porzingis, although, Brown doesn’t have an extension in place simply but with the Celtics.

It isn’t anticipated that the Celtics and Brown immediately attain an settlement on an extension, although each side are “assured” they will get a deal finished quickly, The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach reported. 

A number of reviews indicated in latest weeks that it’s the Celtics’ precedence to increase Brown, whom they drafted with the No. 3 total choose within the 2016 NBA Draft. Nevertheless, it stays to be seen if the Celtics will give him the super-max contract he’s eligible for after he made the All-NBA second-team this previous season.

Boston can provide Brown a five-year, $295 million extension this offseason. Not solely is that over $100 million greater than what any crew can provide him in free company, however it will even be the most important contract in NBA historical past.

As a result of Brown’s potential extension is so giant, there’s been quite a lot of debate on whether or not or not the Celtics ought to give the 26-year-old wing that massive of a deal. Whereas Brown scored a career-high 26.6 factors per sport in the course of the common season, he struggled at factors within the playoffs. Brown scored simply 19 factors per sport within the Celtics’ Jap Convention finals loss to the Warmth, together with an eight-turnover sport in Recreation 7.

One NBA government just lately proposed a inventive concept to Heavy.com’s Steve Bulpett that enables each side to have an out in the course of the contract if want be.

“What if Boston supplied him an opt-out after three years (of the extension) and a crew possibility after 4 years? That enables him to take a look at the place the market is then after the brand new media offers are finished and streaming is available in with Amazon and Apple and all these people bidding to get in,” the nameless government instructed Bulpett. “Issues might look rather a lot totally different then. However that crew possibility would additionally give the Celtics an opportunity to reset if issues don’t work out for no matter purpose — accidents to the core rotation or issues like that. They’d nonetheless have to purchase Jaylen out, however the quantity can be lower than the $65-or-so million on the contract.”

It doesn’t matter what the Celtics and Brown determine to do, it’ll have heavy penalties on the way forward for the group.