{"id":833199,"date":"2026-09-01T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833199\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:26:13","slug":"sixers-star-jaylen-brown-sends-clear-message-ahead-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833199\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers star Jaylen Brown sends clear message ahead of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 1, 2026, 10:28 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> appear to be getting a very motivated Jaylen Brown heading into the 2026-27 season. The Sixers acquired the 10-year veteran from the Boston Celtics early in the offseason in a deal that sent Paul George and a slew of picks to Boston, and Brown appears ready to show that he is one of the best players in this league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brown is coming off a season in which he averaged 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 5.1 assists and led the Celtics to a 56-26 record and the No. 2 seed in the East in what was supposed to be a &#8220;gap year&#8221; when considering the injury to Jayson Tatum. Before being moved to the Sixers, Brown&#8217;s name was centered in trade talks with the Milwaukee Bucks in the Giannis Antetokounmpo sweepstakes before he was dealt to the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now with the Sixers, it appears Brown has one thing on his mind: to go out there and kill it. He said on his latest Twitch stream:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">My mentality is kill, you know what I mean? I feel like I want blood this year, you know what I mean? I feel like that&#8217;s the mentality. I want blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brown is already a self-motivated player, but the fact that he is now focused on making the Celtics regret trading him is a great sign for the Sixers. The 5-time All-Star has a finals MVP on his resume with Boston in 2024. If he can help the Sixers reach the mountaintop and end a long title drought, it would be a big boost to his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 1, 2026, 10:28 a.m. ET The Philadelphia 76ers appear to be getting a very motivated Jaylen Brown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[182817,355,340032,99,340033,340034,185888,183293,198293,184128,182820],"class_list":["post-833199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-accessfree","tag-nba","tag-sourcesixers-wire","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsnbasixers","tag-sstsnsixers","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagphiladelphia-76ers","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833199","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=833199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}