{"id":724078,"date":"2026-06-09T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:31:09","slug":"check-out-jaylen-browns-china-trip-celtics-star-jokes-about-400m-contract-to-play-in-cba-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724078\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Jaylen Brown&#8217;s China Trip, Celtics Star Jokes About $400M Contract to Play in CBA in Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown is taking an offseason visit to China, and certainly appears to be <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/fchwpo\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">enjoying his time there<\/a> thus far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brown even joked he would defect to the Shanghai Sharks\u2014or any other team in the Chinese Basketball Association\u2014if they offer him a contract worth at least $400 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brown, 29, is coming off arguably his best individual season after averaging 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game while shooting 47.7 percent from the field. He finished sixth in the MVP voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Last offseason, Victor Wembanyama side-quested to China, in particular <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48818786\/how-34-generations-shaolin-warrior-monk-training-helped-build-once-generation-nba-superstar-victor-wembanyama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">taking a retreat<\/a> to the Shaolin Temple in the Henan province. Now Brown is has made his own journey East, albeit following a different path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown is taking an offseason visit to China, and certainly appears to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-724078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724078","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=724078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}