On December 12th, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan published a feature on Jaylen Brown. Among other things, she set out to highlight his slow start to the season, along with his struggles to fit in with the new hierarchy of the healthy Boston Celtics — the struggles that led to his demotion from the team’s starting lineup. In it, Brown preached patience with his disappointing performance, and pledged improvement:
“This is a story that’s being written,” Brown says. “There’s going to be highs and lows. Everything that’s happened, the energy will change.
“Come back in two weeks.