Jaylen Brown, Celtics reportedly set to proceed extension negotiations in upcoming week

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Brown can obtain a supermax extension that may give him the biggest contract in NBA historical past.

Jaylen Brown and the Celtics are reportedly set to renew extension negotiations this week.

Jaylen Brown is again stateside following his NBPA retreat in Spain, collaborating in a charity occasion in Dorchester on Friday. It additionally means he can get again to work with the Celtics on a attainable extension.

Brown will certainly do this as each events are anticipated to renew extension negotiations this upcoming week, The Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn reported. Contract talks between the perimeters reportedly paused on July 14 forward of Brown’s journey to Spain.

The 26-year-old star has been eligible to signal a supermax extension with the Celtics since midnight on July 1. Whereas it seems that the Celtics are providing Brown the total max, there are hangups on whether or not to incorporate a participant possibility and a commerce kicker, The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach reported earlier in July.

As he was again in Massachusetts on Friday, Brown helped unveil plans for a redesign of a basketball court docket on the Fenelon Road Playground in partnership with a Northeastern College pupil and Boston’s Parks and Recreation Division.

Brown stated on the occasion that “so long as I’m right here, these items will proceed.”

“It’s going to be an area the place quite a lot of our younger individuals play and take part, however this area additionally represents what must be completed extra right here in Boston,” Brown stated. “We don’t simply want a elaborate court docket that appears good for youths to play on. We have to shut the wealth hole right here in Boston. We have to create new jobs, new alternatives, new sources.”

Previous to his occasion in Dorchester on Friday, Brown spoke with ABC Information’ Linsey Davis about his 7uice Basis. Towards the tip of the interview, Brown was requested what he sees for himself within the subsequent yr.

“I simply see alternative. Loads to study, loads to enhance on,” Brown stated. “You may’t take without any consideration the alternatives that you simply get. It’s a privilege to be in a successful group with a successful crew, so it’ll be nice to carry again the blokes and attempt to go on one other run.”

That reply definitely offers optimism {that a} deal between Brown and the Celtics may be reached. If Brown does get the supermax, it might reportedly be price as much as $304 million. That might give him the biggest contract and the primary contract price over $300 million in NBA historical past.