Brad Stevens couldn’t focus on the specifics of Jaylen Brown’s future with the Celtics, however he made it clear the group thinks extraordinarily extremely of each the participant and the particular person.
“I can say, no doubt, we wish Jaylen to be right here,” Stevens, the workforce’s president of basketball operations, told reporters Thursday afternoon. “He’s a giant a part of us. We consider in him, and I’m grateful for him.”
Following Brown’s All-NBA second-team season, the Celtics can now supply him a five-year, $295 million supermax contract.
“I am not allowed to speak concerning the contract particulars, not to mention the extension… however I can say no doubt we wish Jaylen to be right here.”
Brad Stevens on Jaylen Brown’s contract extension pic.twitter.com/skLAyXEoAZ
— Celtics on NBC Sports activities Boston (@NBCSCeltics) June 1, 2023
Brown, 26, was good at occasions and struggled immensely in others this 12 months. He averaged 26.6 factors, 6.9 rebounds, 3.5 assists and shot 49.1 % from the ground (all career-highs) within the common season.
He was productive general towards the Hawks and 76ers regardless of inevitable some ups and downs. In opposition to the Warmth, his numbers dipped significantly, as he shot 16.3 % from 3 within the sequence and turned it over eight occasions in Sport 7.
There’ll proceed to be a lot debate within the coming weeks about whether or not or not Brown could be the No. 2 possibility on a championship workforce. Stevens didn’t deal with that particularly, however he praised Brown and mentioned they’ve had “nothing however nice conversations.”
“I’m actually grateful for when these guys have success, they arrive again to work,” Stevens told reporters. “After they get beat, they personal it, and so they come again to work. I do know that that’s what they’re about, and that’s laborious to seek out.”
After Sport 7 towards the Warmth, Jayson Tatum mentioned it’s “extraordinarily essential” for the Celtics to maintain Brown.
“He’s probably the greatest gamers on this league,” Tatum told reporters. “Performs each ends of the ball and remains to be comparatively younger. He’s completed rather a lot up to now in his profession.”
As for Grant Williams, Stevens reiterated that he provides worth to a profitable workforce and that the Celtics are huge followers of his.
He famous that Robert Williams is a big a part of the Celtics’ alternative to be nice and that he provides the workforce a unique dynamic along with his potential to play method above the rim.
Payton Pritchard is “obsessed” with basketball in Stevens’ eyes, and he feels for him that he couldn’t get on the court docket as a lot as he would have favored.
“It is not far… we simply acquired to determine the right way to get just a little bit higher.”
Brad Stevens on whether or not or not this Celtics workforce matched the imaginative and prescient for what he needed this season pic.twitter.com/57itY6CRWV
— Celtics on NBC Sports activities Boston (@NBCSCeltics) June 1, 2023
Stevens additionally famous that Tatum has a “fairly respectable ankle sprain” and Derrick White had a hyper extension and “small sprain” throughout Sport 7. Malcolm Brogdon might or might not require surgical procedure on his proper forearm.
When trying on the franchise as a complete, Stevens mentioned the final word objective was not attained however that it’s not far. He mentioned he loves the workforce’s basis and core. The Celtics merely have to enhance, individually and collectively, to recover from the hump.
“I’ve little question inside the character of our group that they’ll do this,” Stevens said. “That’s what these guys have all the time been about.”
