Jaylen Brown reveals switching to vegan diet was life-changing

 

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Jaylen Brown rides a duckboat during the 2024 Boston Celtics championship parade in Boston on June 21, 2024. (Katie Morrison-O’Day / MassLive)Katie Morrison-O’Day

Jaylen Brown is riding high and rightfully so. He led the Celtics to Banner No. 18, earning both East Finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP in the process. So while Brown missed out on an All-NBA team despite a stellar season, he’ll likely take the alternative as he gets his ring size checked after the title.

But it’s been a process for Brown to get to this star-level player and atop the NBA world. He was a raw prospect when drafted at No. 3 back in 2016. Brown has elevated his game every season from there. And in an appearance with “KT THE ARCH DEGREE” talking about his life and beliefs, Brown revealed he previously switched to a vegan diet earlier in his career.

“When I turned 24, I decided to go vegan, and that instantly kind of shifted a lot of different things,” Brown said. “That year, I was an All-Star for the first time. So that had a correlation. I was just moving differently. My thoughts were clear. My life changed, in a sense.”

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Brown isn’t the first athlete to go vegan, though he also revealed he isn’t full-time in the diet now. But it’s clear it did have a positive effect on him mentally as he’s had a stellar few years in the league since then.

Celtics fans will appreciate whatever Brown does to continue working on his game. He admitted last summer he had a tough time after stumbling in the East Finals against the Heat. But since then, Brown just leveled up his game to the point where nobody’s making jokes about his play. And on the flip side, he’ll get to enjoy this summer as a champ.

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“And now, I intermix vegan practices with my own dietary needs to do what I need to do now,” Brown said. “At the time, when I was vegan, nothing that I appreciated more than the clear thoughts, the clarity. You don’t realize the stuff that you put in your body, how much it has an effect on everything.”