in the debut of the league’s new round-robin All-Star tournament format<\/a>. <\/p>\nHere’s a quick explainer of the format, followed by Brown’s stats and highlights from the night:<\/p>\n
NBA All-Star Game format<\/p>\n
The league’s 22 active All-Stars were split into three teams: USA Stripes (featuring Brown and older veterans such as LeBron James and Kevin Durant), USA Stars (featuring younger players like Anthony Edwards and Cade Cunningham) and World (international players). <\/p>\n
Each team played two 12-minute games against the other two squads, and the two teams with the best records — with point differential as the tiebreaker — faced each other in the championship.<\/p>\n
USA Stars beat the World team in Game 1 on a Scottie Barnes buzzer-beater, then Brown’s USA Stripes squad faced USA Stars in Game 2.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown’s Game 2 stats and highlights<\/p>\n
Stat line: 9:23 minutes, 11 points, 5-9 FG, 1-3 3PT, 3 rebounds, 1 block<\/p>\n
Brown showed out in this one, scoring a team-high 11 of the Stripes’ 42 points and helping his team earn a 42-40 win over the Stars.<\/p>\n
Brown thrived at all three levels: He threw down a pair of thunderous dunks, hit a 3-pointer over Chet Holmgren and cashed some difficult shots in the midrange to help power the Stripes’ offense.<\/p>\n
Team Stripes trailed by one in the closing seconds, but De’Aaron Fox hit a 3-pointer as time expired to secure the victory.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown’s Game 3 stats and highlights<\/p>\n
Stats: 7:57 minutes, 0 points, 0-3 FG, 0-1 3PT, 1 assist, 1 steal, 2 blocks<\/p>\n
This was the Kawhi Leonard Game. Playing in his home arena, the Clippers star went absolutely nuclear with 31 of the Stripes’ 48 points as they earned a 48-45 victory over the World.<\/p>\n
Brown didn’t contribute to the scoring but proved why he’s one of the best two-way players in the league with a steal and a pair of blocks, including a clutch swat on Jamal Murray in the final minute.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown’s championship game stats and highlights<\/p>\n
Stats: 12 minutes, 4 points, 2-10 FG, 0-7 3PT, 2 rebounds, 1 assist<\/p>\n
The championship game was an All-American rematch between Stripes and Stars, and this time, the Stars got their revenge, jumping out to a 12-1 lead before cruising to a 47-21 victory.<\/p>\n
Brown got his money’s worth by hoisting a team-high 10 shots but missed all seven of his 3-point attempts as he tried to get Stripes back in the game.<\/p>\n
Anthony Edwards dropped eight points as part of a balanced attack for Stars and was named the All-Star Game MVP.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown’s final stat line<\/p>\n
Over three 12-minute “games,” Brown finished with 15 points, three rebounds, two assists, three blocks and a steal. While he didn’t have the best shooting performance overall (7 for 22), his 11 points were key in helping Stripes reach the championship game.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are off until Thursday, when they’ll take on old friends Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis in Golden State against the Warriors (10 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Boston).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his teammates enjoyed some much-needed downtime, Jaylen Brown was a busy man at NBA All-Star Weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,78,6,7218],"class_list":{"0":"post-605657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-jaylen-brown","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-all-star-game"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116078205325844339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}