What Jaylen Brown said about playing for his hometown team

Jaylen Brown has already established himself as a franchise fixture in Boston, with the Celtics star set to imagine an excellent better function this upcoming season with Jayson Tatum on the mend with a ruptured Achilles tendon. 

However Brown — who hails from Marietta, Georgia — gave an fascinating reply whereas making an look on the Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee on V-103 FM about his future plans within the NBA. 

Given his hometown ties to Georgia, radio host Darian Morgan requested Brown if there was “any likelihood we see you in a hometown uniform” — referencing the Atlanta Hawks.

“You by no means know,” Brown replied. 

“I’d like to see you play for the hometown,” Morgan famous. 

“I really feel you. I feel my grandma would too,” Brown answered.

Morgan then requested if Brown’s grandmother had been in his ear about ultimately enjoying for the Hawks. 

“Yeah, however you by no means know. We’ll see,” Brown answered. 

Brown remains to be a key piece on a Celtics workforce that’s being retooled, because of each Tatum’s damage and cap-related limitations that led to the offseason departures of lineup regulars in Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Vacation, Al Horford, and Luke Kornet. 

Brown remains to be beneath contract for an additional 4 seasons in Boston, with the 28-year-old wing signing what was — on the time — the biggest contract in NBA historical past with a five-year, $304 million supermax extension in July 2023. 

Regardless of his standing as 2024 NBA Finals MVP, Brown has heard his identify talked about in commerce rumors as of late — with both he and Derrick White listed as potential cap casualties this summer earlier than Brad Stevens and Boston’s entrance workplace finally moved each Vacation and Porzingis’ contracts by way of trades. 

However, earlier this summer time, Stevens supplied up a vote of confidence for Brown, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard, and the remainder of a reworked Celtics squad that could possibly be missed going into the 2025-26 season. 

“I imply, the final time that Jaylen Brown was on a workforce that was doubted was a very long time in the past, proper? And the final time that Peyton Pritchard has been on a workforce that was doubted — he in all probability hasn’t been but,” Stevens said in July.  “And also you go down the record, Derrick White and all these guys. So I’m excited to see what this workforce has in retailer.”

Talking on V-103 FM, Brown shared enthusiasm about his anticipated function as Boston’s chief whereas the franchise awaits Tatum’s return to the parquet flooring. 

“I assumed that we fought, we was in loads of battles and there’s loads to be excited for,” Brown stated. “This journey will not be the top it’s not the top for me. I’m trying ahead to coming again stronger, so that you simply take this together with your chin up.

“I do know Boston, it appears gloomy proper now, clearly with JT being out and us sort of ending the 12 months, however it’s loads to sit up for. I need the town to really feel enthusiastic about that. This isn’t the top so I’m trying ahead to what’s subsequent.”

 

Conor Ryan is a workers author masking the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Pink Sox for Boston.com, a task he has held since 2023.