{"id":681352,"date":"2026-03-27T04:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:01:17","slug":"did-jaylen-brown-just-shore-up-mvp-case-in-potential-2026-nba-finals-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681352\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jaylen Brown just shore up MVP case in potential 2026 NBA Finals preview?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Jaylen Brown just shore up his Most Valuable Player case in a potential 2026 NBA Finals preview between his Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder? The Georgia native showed out in what was likely the Celtics best win of the 2025-26 NBA regular season, outplaying MVP front-runner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander while helping Boston beat the league’s reigning champions.<\/p>\n

And Brown did it on both ends of the court, defending at an All-Defense level while being the engine of the Celtics offense as well. The folks behind the “WEEI Boston Sports Original” YouTube channel put together a clip from their “Greg Hill” Show to take a closer look.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about where JB stands in the MVP race — and whether an OKC-Cs finals might be in the works.<\/p>\n

Listen to “Havlicek Stole the Pod” on:<\/p>\n

Blue Wire: https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n

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YouTube: https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Did Jaylen Brown just shore up MVP case in potential NBA finals preview?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did Jaylen Brown just shore up his Most Valuable Player case in a potential 2026 NBA Finals preview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,78,4195,6,179,209],"class_list":["post-681352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-most-valuable-player","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116299150276100033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681352","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=681352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}