Jaylen Brown Keeps His Boston Apartment and Its 18th-Century Harp

Jaylen Brown was traded from the Boston Celtics to the Philadelphia 76ers on July 1, 2026 — and he kept his 4,000 square-foot apartment in Boston anyway, 18th-century harp included.

The harp anchors the living room. "Most of the time I use my harp, it's just me and my chef," Brown says. He hasn't taken lessons yet — he's good for no more than "an impassioned glissando" (a run of notes swept across the strings). When he wants the real thing, he brings in Li Shan Tan, principal harpist of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, who plays in his home. "From time to time, when she is not around, I go and I try to recreate some sounds," Brown says. "It's almost like therapy sessions."

Why stay in Boston after the trade?

The move shook the league. After nine years as half of Boston's duo alongside Jayson Tatum, Brown left for Philadelphia. "It's no beef," he told reporters after a victory. "Might be a little lamb chops and gravy. He should stay ready at all times." Twenty-three days later, LeBron James became his new teammate, forming what the source calls one of the strongest starting fives in NBA history.

None of that pulled him out of his Boston home. "I grew up here, age 19 to 29," Brown says. "I developed here in Boston as a young man." The city returned the feeling: October 24, his birthday, was named Jaylen Brown Day.

The apartment itself did much of the convincing. "There's been other places, but this one — I created it, it was crafted by my vision," he says. "This one felt the most like home." Brown purchased the downtown space at the end of 2023 and spent two years reworking it. It overlooks Boston's Financial District and sits a 15-minute walk from TD Garden, the Celtics' arena.

What does the home actually contain?

Brown hired Linda Zarifi of Zarifi Design as his interior designer. "The first thing he said was 'I don't want a dining table,'" Zarifi recalls. "And I'm like, 'Where are you going to…eat?" The answer: a 22-foot banquette built for most home activities.

"I wanted to open the space up. I wanted gold. I wanted a see-through wine cellar. She went and found it all," Brown says. The finished apartment includes:

• Italian marble bathroom floors
• 24-karat fixtures Brown calls "jewelry for the bathroom"
• a custom suede pool table
• a party-ready speakeasy
• the see-through wine cellar
• a medical hyperbaric chamber (an oxygen-therapy pod for recovery) one step from his bed

The home also houses art. A commissioned portrait of his grandmother in cracked glass, by artist Simon Berger, hangs in the foyer. Brown streams there with Lil Baby and displays artifacts dedicated to his family. "The things that he would splurge on are the things that mattered most to him," Zarifi says. "For him, his flex was his harp."

The pattern behind the purchase

The apartment fits a longer arc. In 2020, five days after George Floyd was murdered, Brown drove 15 hours from Boston to Atlanta to lead a march. He removed the swooshes from his Nikes and later launched his own shoe company, with custom Molteni closets for his collection.

"I've just been enjoying the bliss," Brown says of the home. With his Boston base intact and his Philadelphia chapter underway, he's building both lives in public view — and, for now, keeping the harp exactly where it is.