Jaylen Brown says NBA players' salaries shouldn't be public because the media often creates a negative narrative around athletes
“As an NBA player, I don't think our salaries should be publicized. You go and look at a doctor's salary, the salary isn't publicized. NBA athletes and athletes in general are the ones whose salaries are public knowledge, so all you guys can look and see how much money I make. That's uncomfortable”
“When I think of my situation, even putting education on the back burner, I don't think that adds to the problem that they're making millions of dollars. I think the media is the one who portrays it in a negative lens”
“When I was at Cal, I went one-and-done, and there were critiques like, ‘If Jaylen is so into education, why is he leaving school early.’ That was the question I would get. If you love school so much, why are you leaving”
“If you were about to make $4.7 million, would you leave. It makes sense. It was the opportunity of a lifetime. Why would I turn it down. If a kid had a startup and dropped out of college and he had a startup made revenue of $1 million, nobody would blink twice”
Jaylen Brown says players should be able to own equity in teams because they help increase the value of NBA franchises
“Players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups and business opportunities. I don't understand why that’s ever been a thing. It's like you’re an athlete and they make it seem like they can control how much wealth or growth that you could actually accumulate. I think that's wrong”
“I also think that any other major corporation, if you work for Apple, Nike or anywhere, if you're a CEO, if you're someone who has been on a board for a large amount of time, you get equity in a company at some point. You are part of it”
“I think athletes should be looked at in the same way. You played for the Celtics for 20 years, you should get a piece of equity because you helped accumulate the growth. That's the part that gets lost in translation. The sweat equity you put in. You get compensated for doing your job, but you don't get compensated for the growth. At major corporations and companies you do, or at least some of the big ones”
Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
Not even Spike Lee could make a movie that's more inspiring than OG Anunoby's life story 🍿
Born in the UK, Anunoby lost his mom to cancer a year after he was born.
His family moved to Missouri, USA when he was 4 since his father got a job at Lincoln University.
Growing up, Anunoby initially played football to follow in his brother's footsteps.
By the time he was 8, he shifted to basketball because of his height.
He wasn't heavily recruited coming out of high school.
His college coach at Indiana Tom Crean even admitted that he only found out about OG because they saw him at a tournament while scouting another player.
At Indiana, he came off the bench his freshman season.
He was finally named a starter as a sophomore, but after 16 games he tore his ACL.
Despite the injury, OG still declared for the 2017 NBA draft and was taken by the Raptors with the 23rd pick.
Just as OG finally got his big break, his father passed away a year later 😢
When the Raptors won the title in 2019, he had to watch it all unfold from the sidelines as he had to miss the entire postseason due to an emergency appendectomy.
But just as he always has, OG never used his setbacks as an excuse 😤
He was traded to the Knicks in 2023 and secured the bag with a five-year, $212.5 million contract in the offseason.
2 years later, he's an NBA champion and a New York hero.
For everything life threw at him, OG Anunoby could've easily folded.
But instead of breaking, he built himself into a champion 🙌🏆
"We gotta do a better job as a team, just because it's not a one man job."
James Harden on defending Jalen Brunson in Game 1 of Cavs-Knicks.
Brunson shot 8-of-12 from the field with Harden as the primary defender 👀
(via @sny_knicks)
Two coaches.
Two completely different styles.
One championship stage.
Dan Hurley and Dusty May couldn’t appear more different.
Hurley is loud, fiery, and unapologetically intense. He coaches with passion on full display—every possession, every call, every moment.
May is calm, measured, and composed. He leads with poise—steady, deliberate, and rarely rattled.
One is expressive and animated.
The other is reserved and calculated.
And yet… both are elite.
Both are brilliant tacticians.
Both are masterful recruiters.
Both have built championship cultures.
And most importantly—both LOVE their players… and their players love them right back.
That’s the lesson.
There is no ONE way to lead.
Not in basketball.
Not in business.
Not in life.
Leadership isn’t about copying someone else’s style. It’s about owning your style.
Your personality.
Your strengths.
Your voice.
Because authenticity builds trust.
And trust builds teams that win.
Don’t try to lead like Hurley.
Don’t try to lead like May.
Lead like you.
The Blazers have been fined $100K for illegal contact with Yang Hansen pre-draft; assistant GMs Mike Schmitz and Sergi Oliva suspended, the NBA announced.
Today is a very special day for me as I will be receiving my 18th championship ring tonight at Dodgers Stadium. We will celebrate our back-to-back World Series Championships at ring night - I’m so excited!!! I currently have (1) Everett High School State Championship, (1) Michigan State NCAA Championship, (11) Lakers Championships - (5) as a player, (5) as a co-owner and (1) as an executive, (1) LAFC Major League Soccer Championship , (1) LA Sparks WNBA Championship ,and (3) World Series Championships with the Dodgers! I actually have a total of (20) lol 😂 but I didn’t include my (2) E-Sports Championships as co-owner of Team Liquid!
“He’s unbelievable. He’s made everything better. He's like basketball ketchup… He is brilliant.”
Hornets’ announcer Eric Collins with HIGH praise for Kon Knueppel 😅🗣️
(via @SiriusXMNBA)
(2022) 4 years ago today, Michael Jordan immediately smack talked Magic Johnson at the NBA 75 ceremony.
“C’mon, where your shoes at, we could go play one-on-one, me and you, right now.”