Former Cal Basketball star Jaylen Brown selected to his first All-Star Game
TEARS OF JOY
Former Cal Star Jaylen Brown was selected to his first All-Star game. He was selected to the reserves by the coaches after the starters were selected via fan vote. Jaylen received 1,401,416 votes in the initial fan vote which put him at 5th in the Eastern Conference Guards.
Jaylen is having a career year. 13th in the league in scoring at 25.7 points per game and 23rd in the league in Player Efficiency Rating at 22.05. He’s averaging career highs in points, assists, 3PT% (40.2!!!!), FG%, and FT%.
Congrats to Jaylen!
Tune in on TNT for the All-Star Game draft on March 4th and the All-Star game on March 7th.
Jaylen is probably the frontrunner for the Most Improved Player of the Year award. Coincidentally, that award was won by another Cal guy, Ryan Anderson, back in 2012 in his last season with the Orlando Magic.
For years, I worried about his feel for the game. He was always uber athletic, but a lot of his points and affect on the game came off one-read situations. Over the last two years that has really changed, and he's making such good decisions with the ball in his hand.