Jaylen Brown was brutally honest about his bad night during the Boston Celtics' loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.

Jaylen Brown surges up the NBA MVP power rankings with a statement stretch, while Luka Dončić slips slightly as the race tightens league-wide.

Determination: Fiction. Jaylen Brown is not the game's best two-way player. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is, until someone knocks him off the throne. We will get two battles of the game's last two Finals MVPs twice in a two-week span in March. Buckle up, too, for Jayson Tatum may be coming for both of them by then.

The Celtics star said players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups, and suggested that equity in teams should be part of pay packages.

Before he erupted a handful of times and elevated the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference and made a stirring case for higher inclusion in the Kia Race to the MVP chase, Brown was best known for: Winning NBA Finals MVP (a fairly historical award).

Jaylen Brown goes viral after cameras catch him carefully protecting his spray-on hairline during Celtics loss to Nuggets.

Before the 2025-2026 NBA season started, many assumed that the Boston Celtics would drop hard in the rankings. The C’s got surprisingly bounced by the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals last postseason,