Jaylen Marselles Brown is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears, being named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference.
Jaylen Brown: At 13| 3 pointers tonight| Threes tonight
At 13:
“I think that we did get a lot of open looks. Despite what the statistics are saying, I don’t think we were forcing shots. I thought we had a lot of open looks that didn’t go down,” Brown said after the game, as seen in the video above.
But when you miss 12 3-pointers and your team scores its lowest point total of the season to drop its third straight game, sometimes you just need to blow off a little steam.
3 pointers tonight:
| NAME | GP | TOV |
|---|---|---|
| Jayson Tatum | 12 | 52 |
Brown closed Saturday’s 109-103 loss to the Heat in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals with 40 points (14-20 FG, 3-9 3Pt, 9-12 FT), nine rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal across 42 minutes.
Threes tonight:
Ja Morant has played in 27 games with 3+ three-pointers. Jaylen Brown is starting the NBA Finals on the road. Except it might seem like a homecoming for him, in a couple of ways.
Brown plays for the Boston Celtics, who will visit the Golden State Warriors for Games 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals, which start Thursday night. Brown played his one year of college basketball just on the other side of San Francisco Bay at Cal.
If that wasn’t enough, one of his teammates with the Bears that season was Nick Kerr — the son of Golden State coach Steve Kerr. It all played a role in giving Brown his introduction to the NBA.
