Media Day is the day players from an NBA franchise face the microphones before the season starts. Jaylen Brown made his first appearance there in a Sixers jersey, after a 2025-26 season in Boston that ended with 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game across 71 games, his best career numbers.
The question was about the “alpha”. Who leads, this season, in a group where Philadelphia added Brown and LeBron James to Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe. Maxey was the Sixers’ top scorer last season, with 28.5 points per game. LeBron James is starting his 24th season, a record. Brown answered “Next question”. Then the press room went quiet, for a long time, according to BasketNews.
The club hasn’t won an NBA title since 1983. The question of the alpha will have to wait at least until the first game.
People often ask me who’s the boss of a team. I tell them my sheet doesn’t have a column for that. It has the number, the name, the fouls, the points. The captain signs at the bottom, and even then, not always the same one. Alpha, I wouldn’t know how to write that in biro. Over there, they asked a player, in front of cameras. Here, we ask the table, and the table says we’ll see at the buzzer. He said next question. That’s a proper answer. Noted: question asked, no answer, ball to the press.
It’s true, we checked: BasketNews.
