Jaylen Brown (wheelchair basketball)

Jaylen Brown (born 22 December 2004) is a 4.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Biography
Brown was born on 22 December 2004. His home town is Warrnambool, Victoria. He is an amputee with a prosthetic leg. He attended St Pius Primary School and Emmanuel College. His mother Louise played as a point guard  in the Women's National Basketball League. He is a nephew of AFL player Jonathon Brown.

Basketball
He started playing wheelchair basketball at seven with his mother playing a significant role in coaching him. He was a member of the Victorian under 23 wheelchair basketball team which came from behind to secure a 68–60 victory over Western Australia to claim the state's maiden Kevin Coombs Cup in 2018. Brown was a member of the Spinners at the 2022 IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Thailand, where the team finished fifth. He was the Spinners' leading point scorer for the tournament, finishing in the top-10 overall for points scored (110) and top-five for points per game (19.6).

In 2024, he is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.

Australian football
In 2020, Brown was selected by Hawthorn in the Victorian Wheelchair Football League draft. As a 15 year old, he was the youngest VWFL draftee. He played able-bodied football for Hampden league club for Koroit.