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Boston Celtics celebrity Jaylen Brown had fairly the summer time as he received NBA Finals MVP, confirmed he was courting WNBA participant Kysre Gondrezick, and formally started the primary 12 months of his report $304 million contract extension.
Sadly in life, no one can have all of it, and the one factor that didn’t go Brown’s method was his snub from the Staff USA roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is one thing his father not too long ago mentioned to offer a wholesome perspective.
“I’m proud of him regardless,” Marselles Brown mentioned of his son, by way of SiriusXM NBA Radio. “… It’s BS. I thought that was really foul. He handled it well.”
“I’m proud of him regardless.”
Jaylen Brown’s exclusion from the roster was one of many principal NBA speaking factors after Staff USA misplaced Kawhi Leonard to his recurring knee soreness.
Leonard was changed with Celtics star Derrick White, who stepped in a served as a key position participant for the crew en path to successful the gold medal.
Jaylen Brown had each proper to be upset given his standing as a perennial All-Star and the reigning Finals MVP, however relating to roster building, it’s robust to argue he would have been a greater addition to the crew than White was.
Followers love to do that with All-Star Recreation snubs as nicely and can get upset about how as many as 10 totally different gamers acquired snubbed, however most won’t ever come out and say which gamers who made the crew ought to be changed.
We’ll see if Brown will carry the snub as extra motivation through the 2024-25 NBA season and take his sport up one other degree.
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