Boston Celtics starting shooting guard Jaylen Brown has been named the Eastern Conference’s Player of the Week.
The honors, second of the year for the Cal-Berkeley product, puts the fourth-year wing in some rarified air.
The only other Celtics who have had multiple player-of-the-week honors include Larry Bird, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Isaiah Thomas, and Antoine Walker, according to team reporter Taylor Snow.
The nod comes after another — specifically, an invitation to be an East reserve at the 2020 NBA All-Star Game — did not.
Since then, the Georgia native has been sublimating whatever frustration he may have felt at the slight into some seriously high-octane performances in the games that followed.
While there is still a chance an injury could pave the way for Brown as a replacement candidate, the former Golden Bear is doing plenty to make voters second-guess their initial choices in the meantime.
