Black people defending Jaylen Brown by saying “he’s actually smart” are arguing the wrong point.
Nobody gets punished for being intelligent.
People get punished for signaling that they think they’re smarter than everyone else.
Those are different things.
Human nature is ruthless about this.
If you constantly communicate “I’m the smartest guy here,” people stop listening for your ideas and start looking for reasons to humble you.
Especially when your job isn’t to demonstrate your intellect—it’s to produce results.
Brown is paid to play basketball.
If his intelligence makes him a better basketball player, everyone benefits.
If it becomes a separate performance competing with his basketball, it creates unnecessary friction.
Intelligence is an asset.
Making everyone aware of it, usually isn’t.
The smartest person in the room rarely needs to announce it. The room figures it out on its own.
Curbing your impulse is funny because of the conversations you have with yourself. Like what am I really gonna do after I may this dumb ass decision to do or say this?
Classic on habibti is not the first time I heard an ode to rnb from the 90s or older from drake. "Not you too" puts you in a similar vibe. I think that's over looked.
For me, ice man had better music than GNX. Kendrick did what he did for the moment and the west coast but I haven't been back to GNX since then. I need the musicality to be there but who knows when we'll get that