There has been a fair amount of sticker shock over star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown’s recent supermax contract extension, but some analysts are also concerned about how the deal will age. Count among them Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley, who recently rated the Georgia native as likely to be the fifth-worst deal in the NBA based on “everything from age and talent to injury history and remaining contract terms.”
For Buckley, Brown’s contract “could get a little rough, particularly if he never makes the ball-handling and playmaking improvements he’d need to crack the league’s top 10 … Even if he clears that threshold at some point, he could be entering the early stages of his decline by the 2026-27 campaign.”
