Lots of analytics talk about Jaylen Brown. Analytics are about HOW you play, not whether you CAN play. It’s clear Brown has a full toolbox of NBA level skills. So if he somehow came up short in terms of analytics, isn’t that on the coaches and how they applied and directed his skills for best results?
Victor Wembanyama reads a Harry Potter book at a park.
“He’s the most brilliant player since Albert Einstein.” -media
Jaylen Brown became the youngest person in American history to lecture at Harvard, collaborated with MIT on the Bridge Program, which focuses on getting Black youth in Boston into STEM, became the youngest elected vice president of the NBA Players Association, speaks fluent Spanish, has a nonprofit called Boston Xchange inspired by Black Wall Street, whose goal is to generate $5 billion in additional generational wealth for marginalized communities, all while becoming Finals MVP. Also, his mother has a Ph.D.
“It’s a disease that he’s so smart and he’s not marketable.” - media
Some mediocre, insecure white people seem to believe that if you’re not mixed with white, you can’t be brilliant. To cope with that belief, they dismiss exceptional Black people as “arrogant” or invent some other negative narrative like affirmative action and DEI to cope better.
Big John Thompson had a great clip about how the sports and business world hated educated athletes...Still seeing this issue showing this with how The Celtics dealt with Jaylen Brown
DJ Jazzy Jeff reveals why he used an alias named George Glass when he mixed Jill Scott’s classic album “Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1,” explaining that he got the name George Glass from a character on the TV show The Brady Bunch.
(🎥 DJ Jazzy Jeff/World Cafe/IG)
I can just visualize Jaylen Brown in a room of people talking to down to him like he’s an idiot. Him politely correcting them and them getting offended by it. I’ve seen it happen far too many times.
The coordinated Jaylen Brown smear campaign is nasty. For a brother who honestly hasn’t done anything to warrant some of the crazy things that are being said.
Big is a PATTERN MASTER. 1st two albums he was crqzy on the Hooks and Like all true fans I like my Outkast together Better! Ain't no splitting the team!
On behalf of director Mark Burns, producer Rob Lynch, executive producer Scott Nethery and me, thank you to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco for screening “The PVIL Story: Separate But Equal?” I was so proud for so many of my friends to support our doc in my hometown!
Before our screening of the “PVIL Story: Separate But Equal?” RB Johnny Roland toured his Miller High School Hall of Fame. Johnny led Miller to the first integrated Texas high school football championship in 1960.