{"id":389121,"date":"2026-01-03T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:14:17","slug":"jaylen-brown-snubbed-sees-rival-win-major-nba-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389121\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown Snubbed, Sees Rival Win Major NBA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown earned the Eastern Conference Player of the Week award twice in December.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/jaylen-brown-debuts-as-lone-celtics-player-on-nba-all-star-game-fan-voting-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-time All-Star<\/a> was snubbed on Friday though, failing to capture the Eastern Conference Player of the Month honor for December.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced on Friday that New York Knicks star guard Jalen Brunson won the award.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics beat writer John Karalis noted on Bluesky that Brown actually had slightly better numbers than his rival in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that the award means much, but Brown had better numbers during a 9-3 month. 31.7 ppg, 6.5 reb, 5.4 ast, 53.8% fg, 42.6% from 3,\u201d Karalis posted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Brunson came into the month on a high note, earning the Player of the Week hardware on Nov. 30, while also securing the honor on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/jaylen-brown-made-celtics-history-during-december-to-remember\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic month<\/a> of 30-point efforts, Brown was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Dec. 7 and Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The former third overall pick has six career Eastern Conference Player of the Week recognitions yet has never won the Player of the Month honor.<\/p>\n<p>If Brown\u2019s performance in December 2025 didn\u2019t result in the honor, he may never win it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown earned the Eastern Conference Player of the Week award twice in December. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,20455,15610,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-jalen-brunson","12":"tag-jaylen-brown","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}