Professional basketball guard-forward Jaylen Brown plays for the NBA's Boston Celtics. The Georgia native went to Wheeler High School and led his team to a Class 6A State Championship win. He also led Wheeler to a 30-3 overall record as a senior, averaging 28 points and 12 rebounds. Upon graduation, he was ranked as a five-star recruit and opted for the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2015. During his one season as a California Golden Bear, he was selected to the first team of the conference and won the Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Year award.
Following his freshman season, Brown declared for the 2016 NBA draft, and the Celtics picked him as the #3 overall choice. He made it to the Eastern Conference finals six times with Boston and is a three-time NBA All-Star. In 2022 and 2024, he assisted the Celtics in making it to the NBA Finals, where he won a championship and the MVP award for the Finals in 2024. In his overall eight seasons with the Celtics, he has played in 540 games, starting 433, and averaging per game 23.0 points, 3.6 assists, and 5.5 rebounds, as per his NBA profile.
Jaylen Brown’s Diet
Jaylen Brown went vegetarian at the age of 24 in 2020. He discussed how going vegan at the age of 24 changed his life on the podcast "KT The Arch Degree," discussing how it affected him both mentally and physically. He said, "24 I decided to go vegan and that instantly kind of like shifted kind of a lot of different things like That year I was all-star for the first time, that I think that had a correlation. I was just moving differently."
"My thoughts was clear. Everything, my life changed in a sense. And now I intermix vegan practices with my own dietary needs to do. But like, you know, at the time when I was vegan, nothing that I appreciated more than the clear thoughts. The clarity."
Brown claims that his first NBA All-Star selection followed the diet adjustment, indicating a close link between the two factors and his enhanced play. He experienced notable advantages, such as improved mental clarity and general wellbeing, which improved his performance on the court.
Though he acknowledged that he isn't following the vegan diet exclusively at the moment, Brown is hardly the first athlete to go vegan. However, given that he has had a fantastic few years in the league since then, it is evident that it had a beneficial mental effect on him.
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FAQs on Jaylen Brown
A. Jaylen Brown is primarily a vegetarian; he said that he "intermixes vegan practices" in the KT Arch Degree podcast.
A. Jaylen Brown speaks English and Spanish.
A. No, Jaylen Brown's older brother Quenton is an athlete relations coordinator at Playbooked and was a football player at the University of Central Florida.
A. Jaylen Brown's most recent five-year contract extension for the 2024–28 season is worth $285 million, as per Spotrac.
A. Jaylen Brown stands 6 feet 6 inches or 198 cm tall.
