Brown told Brian Robb of the Boston Sports Journal, “I haven’t heard from them. The ball is in their court.” That doesn’t sound exactly sound the most promising for the Boston Celtics.
Making things even murkier is that other players from Brown’s draft class, Jamal Murray and Ben Simmons both recently received max contract extensions with somewhere in the ballpark of $170M over five years.
The thing is that other than his breakout playoff performance in 2018 where he averaged 18 points per game, Brown hasn’t shown that he’s worth an extension of that magnitude.