Jaylen Brown could earn a significant pay raise if he makes an All-NBA Team, so the Celtics star put his humility aside and made his case for why he’s one of the league’s best 15 players.
Brown has a campaign pitch prepared -- and it's a pretty strong one.
The stats support Brown's comments; the 26-year-old finished ninth in the NBA in scoring while shooting a career-high 49.1 percent from the floor. His 6.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game both were career highs as well, and he's also an elite defender who played 67 games for the second-best team in basketball., as he'd have an easier time making the Third Team as a forward.
"I think he’s doing a great job of obviously scoring the ball, scoring when we need it, but we asked him to do a lot defensively," Stevens told reporters."And we asked him, along with, to read a lot of pretty intense coverages with extra bodies flying at them, with extra bodies shifted over to them.
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