{"id":497565,"date":"2026-03-01T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:41:07","slug":"what-was-star-boston-celtics-forward-jaylen-brown-like-as-a-college-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497565\/","title":{"rendered":"What was star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown like as a college player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown like as a college player? The Georgia native surprised many by electing to go to Cal for his choice of team at the NCAA level, where the spacing did not favor Brown&#8217;s style of play at that point in his career. But the future Boston champion still managed to stand out enough to end up a top-three pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>But what WAS his game like at Cal, you ask? Thankfully for those of us looking to scratch this very specific basketball itch, the folks behind the &#8220;No Ceilings NBA&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip of some of his NCAA highlights at Cal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the clip embedded below to see how Brown played while at the college level for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2026\/03\/01\/what-was-star-celtics-forward-jaylen-brown-like-as-a-college-player\/88152631007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What was star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown like as a college player?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What was star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown like as a college player?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown like as a college player? The Georgia native surprised many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[227323,2242,12228,227322,29175,355,99],"class_list":["post-497565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2016-nba-draft","tag-boston-celtics","tag-brown","tag-college-player","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}