WITH STUMPING FROM DURITZ, JAYLEN FUTURE FLUNG OPEN
Jaylen Brown (left) made the most of his short time at the University of California, forging an unlikely friendship with Adam Duritz, singer for Counting Crows. Duritz has been so impressed by the Celtics forward’s intellect and interests, he recently tweeted that Brown should forget about basketball and run for the U.S. Senate. Or do both, like Bill Bradley.
Right now, it’s merely a kernel in the back of his mind, but, at the age of 21, Brown won’t rule out anything, including politics.
“I mean, who knows? To be honest, when Adam said that, that was just probably his opinion. We’ve never talked about politics before,” Brown said. “That was just him maybe feeling I should do that. People say I should do that all the time, but I haven’t put too much thought into it to be honest. Right now, I’m just focused on this win streak and trying to keep it up.”
“Right now, I’m focused on the season, focused on basketball. That’s where everything that I feel like I’m all in on basketball. But there’s other stuff that I could probably be — just being comfortable telling people what I like to do. Part of me trying to change the narrative that a basketball player can only be a basketball player.
“It’s changing a lot now, you’ve got basketball players who are rappers like Dame Lillard, basketball players on tech, with technology, and all the upstart stuff with (Steph) Curry, Andre Iguodala, so it’s becoming more comfortable and acceptable in society for an athlete or someone else to have other endeavors and I just want to be a part of trying to change that notion that like if I’m just a basketball player, that’s all I can ever be and things like I can’t be taken serious in another atmosphere like I’m a human being just like anybody else.”