{"id":605722,"date":"2026-02-16T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605722\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:31:17","slug":"celtics-jaylen-brown-eyeing-post-basketball-mma-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605722\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Jaylen Brown eyeing post-basketball MMA career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaylen Brown is in the middle of the prime of his career, but the five-time NBA All-Star is already planning ahead for his post-basketball career in a differrent sport.<\/p>\n<p>And where could that take him? <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, to the octagon, Brown told reporters at NBA All-Star weekend in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown said that he has even talked to UFC CEO Dana White about the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38502634\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-boston-celtics-controls-ball-121435883.jpg\" alt=\"Jaylen Brown dribbling the ball against Anthony Edwards during the 75th NBA All-Star Game.\" class=\"wp-image-38502634\"  \/>Jaylen Brown drives to the basket during the Celtics\u2019 Feb. 15 game. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve toyed with this. I\u2019ve talked to some people,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/HyhZBg_-Ne0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said Brown, who has training in Muay Thai<\/a>. \u201cMaybe the post part of my career, I would love to partake in something like UFC or even boxing. I\u2019ve talked to Dana White about some stuff. But we\u2019ll see as things go on. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering that Brown is 29 years old and still has plenty of basketball left in him, those UFC dreams are likely a ways off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics are currently the second-best team in the Eastern Conference at the All-Star break and Brown has been on a tear this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With 23.9 points per game this season, Brown sits tied for third best in the league among offensive leaders, while also averaging 6.9 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown was named the 2024 NBA Finals MVP when the Celtics defeated the Mavericks in five games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has not been immune to some scuffles or physical play on the court, which has given Brown the chance to put a little of his combat training into use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50588235;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38502635\" width=\"888\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grabs-rebound-first-half-nba-120733429.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) grabs a rebound.\" class=\"wp-image-38502635\"  \/>Jaylen Brown looks to drive to the basket during the Celtics\u2019 Feb. 8 game. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of exciting when you get in the moment to have a little bit of controversy,\u201d Brown said. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s not even that big of a deal, but we\u2019ve got emotional dudes, we\u2019ve got passionate dudes about this game. Some of that stuff is going to happen. You get in between the margins, you\u2019re throwing \u2018bows. That stuff, that\u2019s a part of the game to some degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown was throwing a different kind of jab over the weekend \u2014 a verbal one \u2014 at the city of Beverly Hills after cops there <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/15\/us-news\/nba-player-jaylen-browns-beverly-hills-event-shut-down-by-police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut down an event <\/a>he was hosting during All-Star weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Brown took to social media to blast the department, calling Beverly Hills \u201ctrash\u201d and saying, \u201cpeople worked hard for this how dare y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown is in the middle of the prime of his career, but the five-time NBA All-Star is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,78,6,7218,66,11851],"class_list":{"0":"post-605722","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","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116078438561461905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605722","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=605722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}