Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown now finds himself among elite company, ranked within striking distance of the NBA’s handful of superstars with a No. 22 ranking in the annual ranking season of the September content desert crown jewel that is ESPN’s NBA Rank series.
With five teammates (Grant Williams, Malcolm Brogdon, Al Horford, Robert Williams III, and Marcus Smart) within the top 100 already released earlier in the week in the 100-26 batch, only one Celtic in the team’s starting unit remains outside the batch (25-11) Brown landed in. That of course is Jayson Tatum, who has evidently cracked the top 10 in ESPN’s estimation.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s take a look at what got the Georgia native five slots higher than last season.
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— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) September 21, 2022