How Jaylen Brown’s All-NBA choice impacts his future with the Celtics

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The Celtics are actually eligible to supply Brown a five-year extension price as much as $295 million this summer time.

The Celtics Jayson Tatum (0) and Jaylen Brown (7) are pictured together in the second quarter as Philadelphis has the lead. The Boston Celtics hosted the Philadelphia 76ers for Game Five of their NBA Eastern Conference Semi Final basketball series at the TD Garden.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are setting themselves up for main pay days within the coming years. Jim Davis / Globe Employees

Over the past month of the 2022-23 NBA common season, Jaylen Brown has not held again when it comes to vouching for his candidacy for an All-NBA choice.

“I feel I’m greater than deserving,” Brown informed The Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn final month. “That is the second-best group within the league. I’ve performed nothing however successful basketball, helped lead my group, and I’m within the [top] 10 in scoring and I’m environment friendly. I suppose you have a look at the standards and I feel I greater than meet it.”

After all, incomes his first-ever All-NBA appointment holds loads of significance for Brown, who has held courtroom as among the finest wings within the league for the previous few seasons.

However there have been additionally loads of monetary points that may’t be ignored, particularly forward of what could possibly be a pivotal offseason for Brown and the Celtics.

Brown’s needs have been lastly granted on Wednesday, with the Celtics star named to the All-NBA Second Group. He was joined by his teammate Jayson Tatum (First Group), who earned All-NBA honors for the second yr in a row and third time in 4 seasons.

It was a becoming accolade for the 26-year-old Brown, who ranked ninth within the NBA in scoring at 26.6 factors per sport this season.

It additionally opens the door for the Celtics to maintain Brown in place by means of a hefty new contract.

Not like different leagues the place laurels akin to All-Professional are extra honorary regular-season titles, All-NBA choices maintain considerably extra weight.

With Brown now an All-NBA participant, the Celtics have the choice to supply him a super-max extension later this summer time.

Regardless that Brown’s present deal is ready to run via the top of the 2023-24 season, it could be exhausting to cross up what Boston can now supply him long run.

Along with his super-max extension, the Celtics can now put a five-year contract price as much as $295 million on the desk for Brown.

Boston is the lone group that may supply a deal of that magnitude, and near $100 million greater than what the C’s would be capable of put ahead (4 years, $189 million) had he not made All-NBA.

Even when Brown was enthusiastic about testing free company in 2024, it’d be powerful to show down the unrivaled contract that the Celtics can current this summer time.

If the Celtics supply Brown that super-max deal and he accepts, the Tatum-Brown duo can be locked in for at the least the subsequent couple of seasons — guaranteeing further years of rivalry for this membership. Tatum can be now eligible for a super-max deal price as much as $318 million subsequent July.

There stands an opportunity that a few of that sentiment would possibly change if Boston’s season ends in opposition to the Sixers later this week. Allocating vital parts of their cap house to 2 gamers may even sap the Celtics’ depth over time.

However holding two All-NBA gamers in place for the foreseeable future stands as a extra sustainable path ahead, slightly than blowing up this core in the hunt for a shake-up.

Originally posted 2023-05-10 23:56:45.