Jaylen Brown

Jaylen Brown is an American professional basketball player and Philadelphia 76ers guard-forward. Drafted third overall by Boston in 2016, he won the 2024 NBA championship and Finals MVP with the Celtics and also serves as a vice president of the National Basketball Players Association.

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About Jaylen Brown

Profile information current to 2026-08-18.

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Known for: Professional basketball; NBA player representation and union leadership; Entrepreneurship and economic-opportunity initiatives
Country: United States

Professional basketball player

At a glance

Brown joined the Philadelphia 76ers in July 2026 after spending his first 10 NBA seasons with the Boston Celtics.
He helped Boston win the 2024 NBA championship and received the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP award.
By August 2026, the NBA listed Brown as a five-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA Second Team selection.
Brown has served as an NBPA Executive Committee vice president since 2019 and was re-elected to a third three-year term in 2025.

Georgia background and California season

Born in Marietta, Georgia, Brown attended Wheeler High School and helped its basketball team win the 2015 Georgia Class 6A championship. He then played one season at the University of California, Berkeley, starting all 34 games in 2015-16 and averaging 14.6 points and 5.4 rebounds. His college honors included Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, first-team All-Pac-12 recognition and selection as a USBWA Freshman All-American.

NBA career and championship

The Boston Celtics selected Brown with the third overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. He made the NBA All-Rookie Second Team after his first season and later earned All-NBA Second Team honors in 2022-23 and 2025-26. His most prominent team achievement with Boston came in 2024, when the Celtics won the NBA championship and Brown was named both Eastern Conference Finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP.

Move to Philadelphia

Philadelphia officially acquired Brown from Boston on July 6, 2026. The NBA lists him as a guard-forward wearing No. 7. Because the 2026-27 regular season had not begun by the profile's cutoff date, his realized role and performance with Philadelphia could not yet be assessed.

Player representation and entrepreneurship

Beyond his playing career, Brown is an Executive Committee vice president of the National Basketball Players Association, a position he first assumed in 2019. The union re-elected him to a third three-year term in February 2025. In material submitted for a 2026 U.S. Senate committee hearing on entrepreneurship and the wealth gap, Brown also identified himself as founder of Boston XChange and co-founder of the Boston Creator Accelerator; the submitted material does not independently establish those initiatives' long-term outcomes.

Timeline

1996-10-24 Born in Marietta, Georgia.
2015 Helped Wheeler High School win the Georgia Class 6A championship.
2016 Selected third overall by the Boston Celtics in the NBA Draft.
2019 Began serving as an NBPA vice president.
2023 Earned his first All-NBA selection as a Second Team forward.
2024-06-17 Won the NBA championship and NBA Finals MVP with Boston.
2025-02-16 Re-elected to a third term as an NBPA vice president.
2026-05-24 Named to the 2025-26 All-NBA Second Team.
2026-07-06 Officially acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers from Boston.

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Current context

Brown is a Philadelphia 76ers player. The trade was reported on July 1 and became official on July 6, 2026.
The NBA lists Brown as a guard-forward wearing No. 7.
The NBA lists Brown with five All-Star selections, two All-NBA selections, one NBA championship, one Finals MVP and one Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Brown remains an NBPA Executive Committee vice president. He was re-elected to a third three-year term in February 2025.

Biographical facts

Brown was born on October 24, 1996, in Marietta, Georgia.
He attended Wheeler High School in Marietta and helped the school win the 2015 Georgia Class 6A state championship.
Brown played one season at California in 2015-16, starting all 34 games and averaging 14.6 points and 5.4 rebounds.
He was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, first-team All-Pac-12 and a USBWA Freshman All-American.
The Boston Celtics selected Brown with the third overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.
Brown was selected to the 2016-17 NBA All-Rookie Second Team.
Brown was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 2022-23 and 2025-26.
Brown helped Boston win the 2024 NBA championship and was named Finals MVP after averaging 20.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.0 assists in the Finals.
The NBPA re-elected Brown to a third three-year term as an Executive Committee vice president in February 2025.
In material submitted for a February 2026 U.S. Senate committee hearing, Brown identified himself as founder of Boston XChange and co-founder of the Boston Creator Accelerator.

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Affiliations associated with Jaylen Brown.

Philadelphia 76ers Guard-forward 2026-07-06–present
National Basketball Players Association Executive Committee vice president 2019–present
Boston Celtics Guard-forward 2016–2026-07-06
University of California, Berkeley Men's basketball player 2015–2016