Celtics’ Jaylen Brown agrees to richest deal in NBA history: report

The Boston Celtics will proceed constructing round their two younger stars after Jaylen Brown agreed to a contract extension on Tuesday.

Brown has agreed to signal a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension, Brown’s agent informed ESPN.

The deal will hold Brown beneath contract via the 2028-29 NBA season and is the richest deal in NBA historical past, per ESPN.

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Brown grew to become eligible for the supermax extension after making the All-NBA second staff through the 2022-23 season.

Brown was drafted by the Celtics with the third choose of the 2016 NBA Draft and has made the playoffs in every of his seven seasons.

Jaylen Brown, #7 of the Boston Celtics, shoots a free throw throughout spherical 3 recreation 6 of the Jap Convention Finals towards the Miami Warmth on Could 27, 2023 on the Kaseya Middle in Miami. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE by way of Getty Photographs)

Final season, Brown averaged career-highs in factors (26.6 per recreation) and rebounds (6.9 per recreation) as Boston superior to the Jap Convention Finals for the second consecutive season.

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Brown is a two-time All-Star and has averaged 17.9 factors, 5.2 rebounds and a couple of.2 assists per recreation in his profession.

Brown and Jayson Tatum have turn out to be among the finest duos in all of the NBA, coming inside two wins of an NBA championship through the 2021-22 season.

Tatum is eligible for a supermax extension subsequent summer time.

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Jaylen Brown, #7 of the Boston Celtics, reacts to defeating the Miami Warmth 104-103 in recreation six of the Jap Convention Finals at Kaseya Middle on Could 27, 2023 in Miami. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photographs)

It has been an offseason of change for the Celtics because the group traded away Marcus Smart – one of many staff’s cornerstones – for Kristaps Porzingis in June.

The transfer is a dangerous one for Boston as they transfer on from their defensive chief and herald Porzingis, who has struggled to stay wholesome throughout his profession.