{"id":399559,"date":"2026-01-10T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399559\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:01:11","slug":"celtics-jaylen-brown-makes-substantial-jump-on-latest-nba-mvp-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399559\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Jaylen Brown makes substantial jump on latest NBA MVP ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Jayson Tatum went down with an achilles injury in the 2025 <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA <\/a>Playoffs, it opened the door for Jaylen Brown to take on an even more important role this season with the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has risen to the occasion so far this season, having a career year that has been recognized on the latest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/kia-mvp-ladder-jan-9-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA.com MVP ladder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has been in the mix as an honorable mention on the weekly ladder, but had quite the jump on this week&#8217;s updated edition, after putting together some impressive performances recently.<\/p>\n<p>How far up did Jaylen Brown climb on the latest MVP ladder?<\/p>\n<p>After sitting in the 7th spot on the MVP ladder last week, Brown has moved up all the way to 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>He trails behind Nikola Jokic (1st) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2nd).<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\/news\/trading-ja-morant-impossible-one-key-reason\/9afa7a5c84efb6ea22cf3ba9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading for Ja Morant may be impossible for one key reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 2025-26 NBA season, Brown is averaging 29.7 points (career high), 6.4 rebounds, 4.9 assists (career high), 11.0 field goals (leads NBA), 50.1 FG% (career high) and 37.2 3P%.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics are 21-13 in games Brown has played in this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics have won 13 of their last 17 games, and enter Friday as the 3rd seed in the East with a 23-13 record. They sit just 0.5 games behind the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Knicks <\/a>for the 2nd seed, and 4.5 games behind the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pistons <\/a>for the 1st seed.<\/p>\n<p>Brown is averaging 31.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.7 assists in his last 18 games played.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA articles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Jayson Tatum went down with an achilles injury in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, it opened the door&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-399559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}