Like Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown was brilliant last night against the Bucks, with his 30 points on 13 of 20 shooting, but also 5 rebounds and 5 assists in 32 minutes. A performance that allows him to end the month of March with 28 points on average at 53% on shots, and as it was his 65th game of the season, ESPN reports that this victory unlocks two substantial bonuses.
Thus, for this 65th game played this season, his contract includes a bonus of 518,000 dollars, and since he was All-Star last February, that unlocks another bonus of 1.5 million dollars! Do the math, in one night, Brown made over two million dollars!
But the most important thing is that Boston has reassured itself by winning very largely in Milwaukee. A good omen before the playoffs.
“Overall, I think we’ve been pretty consistent throughout the year. I also think we should be closer to 60 wins at this stage of the season, but I also think we are a better team than last year.” he believes. “We won more games than last year and overall we haven’t given up. We may have lost a few games, but we didn’t let a bad game turn into two bad weeks or even a bad month. We were able to bounce back. »
Regularity
In general, the Celtics have indeed shown greater mental solidity, and it all started at the start of the season with the management of the Ime Udoka affair. Brown and his teammates were able to remobilize after the dismissal of their coach, and the induction of Joe Mazzulla. Like all franchises, they have had evenings without, and we remember several big hiccups in OKC or Houston, or even surprise defeats against the Magic, but the 2022 finalists reacted quickly.
“We played very good basketball for long periods of time. We had a few hiccups, but we always reacted well. We talked about it from day one: the big teams display their true level the longest. And when they are not there, they come back quickly. So I think that’s something that this team has done well, which is to say they bounce back quickly. This time it was just one game, but we have to be judged on how we deal with successes as well as failures. It is important. »
