Who is the Celtics' leader between Tatum and Jaylen Brown

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2024-06-19 17:00Posted in Hebei Sports Creators

The exciting NBA2023-24 season officially came to an end, the Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4-1 in the Finals to successfully reach the top, and with Jaylen Brown winning the Finals MVP honor, the topic of who is the boss of the Celtics between him and Tatum has become a hot topic again.

In fact, this controversial topic started from this season's Jaylen Brown won the Eastern Conference Finals MVP, before which Tatum was the team's boss without dispute, and Jaylen Brown was frequently involved in trade rumors, but not long after Brown won the Eastern Conference MVP, he squeezed Tatum out of the NBA's official promotional poster to occupy the C position, and after the first game of the Finals, Mavericks coach Kidd used a distraction meter to evaluate Jaylen Brown as the best player for the Boston Celtics, and his remarks pushed this topic to a climax, Of course, Kidd's ruse did not succeed, but it is impossible to say that Tatum didn't care at all, he performed very abnormally in the last game of the Finals, continued to shoot wildly in the third and fourth quarters of the team's big lead, and scored a game-high 31 points, it can be said that he was full of desire for the Finals MVP, but in the end he still failed to win the award.

Supporters of Tatum mocked this year's Finals MVP as the Iguodala Award (in the 2014-15 Finals, when the Warriors defeated the Cavaliers 2-2, when everyone thought Curry was going to win the MVP honor, Iguodala was a dark horse to win the Finals MVP), and those who supported Jaylen Brown thought he deserved the award, Tatum performed average in the playoffs, while Jaylen Brown played well, as long as Brown continued to shine, It is not impossible to break the stereotype and surpass Tatum to become the team's NO1.

In the NBA league, player prestige and team status are earned by showing themselves, at this stage, what are the advantages of Tatum and Jaylen Brown, I will try to compare them from several aspects, first of all, salary, this is the basis that best reflects the value of players, this season Tatum's salary is 32.6 million US dollars, Jaylen Brown is 31.83 million US dollars, Tatum is slightly ahead of Jaylen Brown, but from next season, Jaylen Brown's new contract will take effect, and his annual salary will skyrocket to 49.7 million US dollars, Ranked 9th in the league, and Tatum only has a $34.84 million contract next season, and he will not have a player option until the 2025-26 season, when he can choose to jump out of the contract and sign a sky-high contract, it should be said that Jaylen Brown will overpower Tatum in terms of salary in the coming year.

In terms of commercial influence, in the 2024 Forbes Global Far Mobilization Income Rankings, Tatum's endorsement income is $13 million, ranking 49th among global athletes and 9th among NBA players, he has endorsed at least 13 brands, involving games, beverages, catering, sports brands, online streaming, payment platforms and other fields, and Jaylen Brown has a huge gap with Tatum in this regard, and it is currently known that he has endorsed at least four brands, involving clothing and business funds, The annual income of endorsements does not exceed 5 million, because Jaylen Brown did not enter the top 20 on the NBA endorsement income list released by Forbes last year, and Anthony Davis, who ranked 20th, has an endorsement income of $5 million, and on April 19 this year, the NBA officially announced the 23-24 season jersey sales list, Tatum ranked third in the league, only below Curry and James, and Jaylen Brown did not even enter the top 15, through this data, it can be seen that Tatum is far ahead of Jaylen Brown in terms of commercial influenceJaylen Brown is not even ranked in the top 20 in the NBA in terms of commercial value alone, but after this year's playoffs, two MVP honors should add a lot of points to Brown, and I believe that many brands will ask him to sign new endorsement contracts.

Fan attention is also an important data to evaluate the status of stars, Tatum's INS social account has 7 million followers, and Jaylen Brown's fans have 3.95 million followers, and the gap between the two is not too big. At present, the number of James's INS fans has reached a terrifying 150 million, and Curry also has 56 million, through comparison, it can be seen that the two Celtics stars are not highly topical in the American sports world, and the gap in China is even more obvious, at present, the Celtics can probably rank about 10th in the NBA team topic ranking of Chinese fans, and because of the controversial penalty incident of Tatum's hitter James, a large number of Lakers fans have turned into Tatum black, and the evaluation of Tatum in the Chinese Internet public opinion field is to pull the hips at a critical moment. Soft, data brush and other bad comments, in this hot topic of who is in charge, most Chinese fans actively support Jaylen Brown as the leader of the Celtics.

After talking about the off-court and then on the court, the basketball court ultimately has to rely on strength to speak, I will talk in two stages, a regular season and a playoffs, Tatum averaged 26.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, 4.9 assists, and 1 steal in 35.7 minutes per game in the regular season, and played 72% of the time in the No. 4 position and 26% of the time in the No. 3 position, and the playing time, points, and rebounding data are in the first position in the team, Jaylen Brown averaged 23 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals in 33.5 minutes per game in the regular season, playing the No. 3 position 68% of the time, playing the No. 2 position 30% of the time, ranking second on the team in terms of playing time and scoring.

Tatum had a regular season ball usage rate of 30.2% (first on the team), an average of 19.3 shots per game (first on the team) and 9.1 shots per game, a shooting rate of 47.1%, and the final PER efficiency value was 22.3 (third on the team) based on other data, and then looked at Jaylen Brown, who had a regular season ball usage rate of 28.9% (second on the team), and hit 9 goals per game with an average of 17.9 shots per game (second on the team), with a shooting rate of 50%, Combined with other data, the final PER efficiency value is 18.6 (sixth on the team), and Tatum deserves to be the leader in the regular season.

But in the playoffs and the finals, things suddenly changed, Tatum's playoff ball usage rate dropped to 29.2% (first on the team), his average shot per game increased to 19.6 shots per game (first on the team) but the shooting rate dropped to 8.4 goals, and the shooting rate dropped to 42%, which was 5 percentage points lower than the regular season, and the final PER efficiency value dropped to 20.1 (first on the team) based on other data, and then looked at Jaylen Brown, who had a 28.6% ball usage rate in the regular season (second on the team), He averaged 17.8 shots per game (second on the team) and hit 9.2 goals with a shooting rate of 51%, and his shooting percentage also increased even when the ball possession and number of shots decreased, simply put, the efficiency increased, and finally the PER efficiency value also increased to 19.1, so to speak, entering the playoffs with higher intensity, Tatum failed to maintain the dominance of the regular season, while Jaylen Brown showed greater efficiency.

In the final finals stage, Tatum's performance still did not improve, including a shooting rate of 38%, a three-point shooting rate of 26%, Jaylen Brown's three-point shooting in the finals was not good, shooting 8 of 34 shooting rate was only 23%, but he relied on breaking through to hit the inside frame 84 times, hitting 37 shots, shooting rate of 44%, and creating the most fouls during the Finals, which is obviously more reliable than Tatum in terms of appearance.

One of the most valuable data is the key ball data in the playoffs, Jaylen Brown ranks first on the team with 18 key points, he shot 7 of 13 at the critical moment with a shooting rate of 53.8%, and the key three-point shooting rate of 2 from 4 shots is 50%, and then look at Tatum, the key score in the playoffs is 16 points, and the score may not be much different from a single look, the key is efficiency, Tatum only hit 5 of 17 shots at the critical moment, the shooting rate was only 29.4%, and the key three-point shot was 1 of 7, It can be seen that Jaylen Brown is absolutely not soft at the critical moment, and Tatum is completely unreliable, let's just say that if Tatum is hard and normal, then the MVP can't be given to Jaylen Brown.

Tatum's dream of winning the championship is an important milestone in his career, but it is also a huge regret that he failed to win the MVP honor, this experience is a huge training for him, the sword edge is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, I hope Tatum can break the doubt in the coming days and stand on the top with an undisputed performance.

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