Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown has slammed the NBA’s recent MVPs.
Over the past few decades, the NBA has quickly evolved into an offense-heavy league, with the top superstars scoring a plethora of points on a nightly basis.
However, in the last decade or so, there has been a shift in how the players, particularly the MVPs, have started scoring their points.
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Be it Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, they all get a huge chunk of their points at the line, and Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown isn’t a fan of this.
Jaylen Brown says the NBA rewards floppers
Many former NBA stars have complained about modern players searching for free throws rather than scoring in an ethical way.
The debate often gets heated, and now Brown has shared his two cents on the matter, as he sided with the old heads.
“If you wanna be a great player, you gotta sell your soul. You gotta be a flopper. If you wanna be an MVP, you wanna be top of the top, you gotta sell your soul and just be a flopper,” Brown said on his livestream.
Now, that’s a massive statement from the 2024 NBA Finals MVP as he indirectly questioned what commissioner Adam Silver is rewarding in the modern era.
While Brown was as blunt as they come, he’s not alone in feeling this way. After all, many NBA fans have expressed their discontent over the top superstars hunting for fouls.
Jaylen Brown says he could train to get foul calls
This season, Brown is currently averaging 29.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game for the Celtics. Brown is proving himself as a leader in Jayson Tatum’s absence.
Despite that, there’s hardly any buzz about him being in the race to win the 2025-26 NBA MVP. Keeping that in mind, Brown claimed he could train to earn fouls rather than focusing on other skills in his game.
“Y’all tell me, what y’all want me to do? Y’all want me to be on that? I could do it. I can start going to practice and working on throwing my head,” Brown claimed.
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Ultimately, hunting for too many foul calls only makes the product worse for NBA fans amid the league’s attempt to fix its plummeting ratings.
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