The St. Louis native has been flirting with breaking through to the inner echelon of the league's elite players.

Brad Stevens got the band back together, and the Celtics are on a mission from Red to bring home Banner 19. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are not only champs, but they're motivated by greatness -- and a few snubs -- to keep this run going.

That sort of leap is not very common, and Brown appeared close to being done growing his game to the untrained eye. But as we all know, he was often the Celtics' best player on Boston's way to hanging Banner 18 this summer.