Boston Celtics 2020-21 individual players grades: Jaylen Brown

With our penultimate player grade of the 2020-21 Celtics season, we arrive at one of the best individual grades on the team with Jaylen Brown.

Now that the 2020-21 Boston Celtics season is in the rear-view mirror, it’s possible to spend time taking stock of how each player did with the opportunity he had.

To that end, we are grading every player who put in time on the basketball court for the Celtics this season, including all 15 members of the regular roster, both two-way players and the players the team cut or traded away. That’s 21 players, and today’s focus is freshly minted All-Star wing Jaylen Brown, our second to last player season grade remaining. Brown leaned into a leadership role not only on his team but across the league and in society even beyond what he had in the recent past.

And while the season didn’t end the way he likely had hoped, he took some big steps forward in it in several ways. With that in mind, let’s assess Brown’s 2020-21 season in context.