Jaylen Brown has given props to Luka Doncic via social media after the Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals.
On Monday, Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics broke through and won the franchise its first championship since the Bush administration with a demolition of Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals from Boston. Brown didn’t have his most eye-popping game from a statistical standpoint in this one, but his performance for the series overall still netted him the coveted Finals MVP trophy and helped the Celtics cap off what was one of the most dominant seasons in NBA history.
One of the most impressive aspects of Brown’s performance throughout these finals was the fact that not only was he producing at an efficient rate at the offensive end of the floor, but he was also tasked with guarding Doncic, arguably the game’s most difficult assignment, on the other end of the floor, and did a solid job of making the Mavericks star work for everything he got and limiting his efficiency for the series.
After the game as the Celtics celebrated, Brown and Doncic shared a moment, with the two congratulating each other on a hard fought series.
“Luka, you’re a killer, you got the best out of me. I love you bro,” Jaylen Brown told Doncic, via Tomek Kordylewski on X.
“I love you too, bro,” replied Doncic.
It was a show of great sportsmanship between two players who played integral roles in their respective teams’ ascension to the game’s biggest stage and performed well when they got there.