As the Boston Celtics have romped through the N.B.A. regular season and playoffs, Jaylen Brown, one the team’s two young star forwards, has been asked, many times, to expound on the team’s success. He has usually given a variation of the same answer. It’s a matter of “mind-set,” he said. He had told his teammates to “harness the mind.” During Game Two of the Finals, against the Dallas Mavericks, he wore a microphone, and the television broadcast showed clips of him offering encouragement to his teammates between plays. “Embrace the moment,” he said. “Breathe into it. Accept it. Don’t run from it.” After the Celtics won the game, taking a two-games-to-nothing lead in the series, Brown said he would try to “trick your mind” into thinking that Boston was down 2–0, not up. “The mind is a powerful thing,” he said, more than once, during an interview on ESPN.
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