Looks like Hayward's massive contract is probably the starting point in Brown's mind.
Brown should make an All-Star team and average 20-5-5 over three seasons then
I agree.
In the three seasons prior to signing with Boston, Gordon Hayward put up the following:
19.3 / 4.9 / 4.1 / 45% / 36% / 81%
19.7 / 5.0 / 3.7 / 43% / 35% / 82%
21.9 / 5.4 / 3.5 / 47% / 40% / 84%
Jaylen has yet to put up a single season that has come anywhere even remotely close to those numbers.
And I wasn't even convinced that Hayward was worthy of being offered a max deal, even after those three seasons. I really wanted Boston to go hard after Paul George or Jimmy Butler because I saw Hayward as being at best a #2 or #3 guy on a contender.
Brown is a fraction of the player Hayward was prior to the injury and is absolutely not worth that type of money.
Ummmm, those are the three season after Hayward got his rookie extension.
In the previous four seasons he was
16.2/5.1/5.2/ 41.3/30.4/81.6
14.1/3.1/3.0/43.5/41.5/82.7
11.8/3.5/3.1/45.6/34.6/83.2
5.4/1.9/1.1/48.5/47.3/71.1
After those first three seasons is where Jaylen brown is currently. The jazz didn't sign him to an extension, and told him to go find what he could on the open market. Hayward signed a 3 year offer sheet which the jazz matched and reportedly that "slight" played a role in his leaving the last time he became a free agent. At the very least if they'd offered him a four year extension they would have had him an extra year, which would have overlapped with Donovan Mitchells first year and then who knows maybe he stays and the Jazz have a Mitchell, Hayward, Gobert nucleus. All in all a good reminder that there is risk in not signing guys to an extension.