Jaylen Brown · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
OverviewAI-generated
Jaylen Brown is an American male basketball player born on October 24, 1996, in Marietta. He plays the small forward position for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association and represents the United States men's national basketball team. Brown was drafted by the Boston Celtics and began his professional career in 2016. He also participated in the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Brown stands 201 centimeters tall and weighs 101 kilograms. He wears the number 7 and speaks English as his native language. Additional records list him as a shooting guard for the Boston Celtics. He has accumulated 841,387 social media followers and is referenced by 285 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-05-03
- Active to
- 2006-12-25
Discography
- James Browns Presents His Band & Five Other Great Artists1961
- Prisoner of Love1963
- Grits & Soul1964
- Showtime1964
- Sings Out of Sight1965
- James Brown Plays James Brown: Yesterday and Today1965
- Handful of Soul1966
- James Brown Plays New Breed1966
- James Brown Sings Raw Soul1967
- James Brown Plays the Real Thing1967
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11,090
- Total plays
- 27,877
Jaylen Brown is the best shooting guard in the NBA currently he's the second highest paid player in NBA history behind his teammate Jayson Tatum <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jaylen+Brown">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,986x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,889x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Position
- Small forward / shooting guard
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1996-10-24 ) October 24, 1996 (age 29) , Marietta, Georgia , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
- Listed weight
- 223 lb (101 kg)
- High school
- Wheeler (Marietta, Georgia)
- College
- California (2015–2016)
- Nba draft
- 2016 : 1st round, 3rd overall pick
- Drafted by
- Boston Celtics
- Playing career
- 2016–present
- 2016 present
- Boston Celtics
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Boston Celtics
- Position
- Shooting Guard
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Marietta
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- small forward
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 101
- Image
- Jaylen Brown 2017.jpg
- Height
- 201
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Jaylen Brown
- date of birth
- 1996-10-24
- sport number
- 7
- drafted by
- Boston Celtics
- start of work period
- 2016-00-00
- social media followers
- 841387
- partner in business or sport
- Jayson Tatum
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Jaylen Marselles Brown (born October 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears and was named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference. Declaring for the 2016 NBA draft after his freshman season, Brown was selected by the Celtics with the third overall pick. As a professional, he has split his time between shooting guard and small forward.
Brown is a five-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Team member, and reached the Eastern Conference finals six times with Boston. He helped the Celtics reach the 2022 and 2024 NBA Finals, winning a championship and the Finals MVP award in the latter. Brown and Jayson Tatum make up the Celtics' "Jays" duo.
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