Star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown is back on a basketball court for the first time (that we know of, anyway) since getting knee surgery this offseason. And by most accounts, the Georgia native has been looking much more like his former, springy, athletic self while he has been putting in the work ahead of the NBA's 2025-26 regular season.

It wasn’t Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown who gave Jrue Holiday the most trouble during practice in Boston 🤯 Jrue had high praise for his former Celtics teammate, Payton Pritchard 🤝 pic.twitter.com/jln5C5zU8Z

The Boston Celtics face a new challenge this year. For the first time since they traded away the No. 1 pick (ultimately used on point guard Markelle Fultz, who's currently a man without a team this summer) for the rights to draft Jayson Tatum at No.