Jaylen Brown has emerged as a serious threat for the Boston Celtics, but the fourth-year swingman may have tweaked himself during the clinching Game 7 semi-finals win over defending champion Toronto Raptors on Friday.
Ahead of the 2020 Eastern Conference Finals versus the Miami Heat, Brown, 23, came down hard in Game 7 and may have hurt his groin.
Brown commented on the status of his groin, via Jay King of The Athletic:
“I'm feeling it now but at the moment, I didn't feel s–t. It hurt for a minute and then I heard my teammates and all the pain went away.”
In his fourth consecutive trip to the playoffs, Brown is averaging 21.0 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game in 11 appearances with the Eastern Conference Finals, with Game 1 coming up as soon as Tuesday, Sept. 15. Brown trails only first-time All-Star teammate forward Jayson Tatum in leading the Celtics in playoff scoring; the former Duke star is averaging 25.3 points per game and shooting 44.7 percent from the field.
Brown has matured into a core piece for the Celtics alongside Tatum and veteran guards Marcus Smart and Kemba Walker, the latter of whom is reaching the conference finals in his first year with Boston after never moving the needle further than a first-round playoff series exit with his former team, the Charlotte Hornets.
With a pair of Western Conference semi-final matchups still playing out, Brown and the Celtics will have a chance to rest up before Game 1 on Tuesday—a rare reprieve in the NBA's bubble at Walt Disney World given the condensed postseason schedule Boston and other teams have experienced.
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