Celtics' Jaylen Brown earns his first NBA All-Star starter nod

"Jaylen Brown will be one of five starters for the Eastern Conference in next month's NBA All-Star game, the league announced Monday. It will be Brown's fifth All-Star appearance and first time starting the game. He joins Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo, New York's Jalen Brunson, Detroit's Cade Cunningham, and Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey among the East starters. Los Angeles's Luka Doncic, Denver's Nikola Jokic, Golden State's Stephen Curry, Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama will start for the West."

""To me, I think it's kind of where the game is heading is being able to make reads," Mazzulla said. "Whether that's on ball or off ball, I think for the great players in this league they see different matchups, different coverages each game and it's constantly changing." "Sometimes heading into the game you have an idea of what teams are going to do, but you don't know and you have to be able to make those reads in real time.""

Jaylen Brown will start for the Eastern Conference in the upcoming NBA All-Star game, marking his fifth selection and first start. He joins top Eastern players including Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jalen Brunson, Cade Cunningham and Tyrese Maxey, while Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Stephen Curry, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Victor Wembanyama will start for the West. Brown is averaging a career-best 29.7 points on 49 percent shooting, plus 6.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists, and is shooting 36.7 percent from three. Jayson Tatum is rehabbing a torn Achilles, increasing Brown's offensive role, and turnovers have risen to 3.7 per game.

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