{"id":548365,"date":"2026-03-27T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548365\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:44:07","slug":"celtics-legend-demands-more-mvp-support-for-jaylen-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548365\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Legend Demands More MVP Support For Jaylen Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> only have\u00a010 games left in their regular season, but Jaylen Brown is still playing at an MVP level.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has carried the Celtics all season, leading them to the second-best record in the Eastern Conference despite being without Jayson Tatum for most of the year. Even now with Tatum back, Brown&#8217;s continued to play at an MVP level with at least 29 points in six of his last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Brown put on a show against the defending champs, propelling Boston to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/thunder-reporter-calls-celtics-victory-vs-okc-statement-win\/1be9e5c8af4860648f5f01ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement win<\/a> over the Oklahoma City Thunder with 31 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/nba-analyst-explains-what-jaylen-brown-proved-against-thunder\/6e6847899d16cbfaa1b6ec93\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went toe-to-toe<\/a> with reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, matching him offensively and guarding him during the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Brown likes to say he&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/jaylen-brown-walks-back-best-two-way-player-claim\/921166882fc53fc230c611d2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best two-way player<\/a> in the game, and Wednesday was just the latest example of that.<\/p>\n<p>Between Brown&#8217;s career year and the Celtics&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/celtics-get-grade-shockingly-dominant-season\/198b1ba0d2f4fb9819b98c56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shocking success<\/a> this season, many believe he deserves to win the NBA MVP award, including Boston legend Isaiah Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jaylen Brown needs more love for MVP!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Isaiah Thomas (@isaiahthomas) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isaiahthomas\/status\/2037285092318687693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jaylen Brown needs more love for MVP!!!!&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/isaiahthomas\/status\/2037285092318687693\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas posted on X<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas had a similar impact on the Celtics during Brown&#8217;s rookie year, finishing fifth in the 2016-17 MVP race, so he knows what it&#8217;s like to carry a team in Boston for an entire season.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s likely around where Brown will finish in the voting, as he&#8217;s clearly behind Gilgeous-Alexander, Luka Doncic and Victor Wembanyama. Brown has said he would <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/celtics-star-jaylen-brown-reveals-frustrations-mvp-race\/ad049878275e16f5852dfc37\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rather win another championship<\/a> than an MVP, though, so he probably won&#8217;t be too sad about it if he can help lead the Celtics to another title.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/former-nba-champ-picks-celtics-win-eastern-conference-nsfw-breakdown\/0a2e6ec7c38442c9d8e2c34a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former NBA Champ Picks Celtics To Win Eastern Conference In NSFW Breakdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics only have\u00a010 games left in their regular season, but Jaylen Brown is still playing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-548365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548365","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=548365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}