Jaylen Brown has been my favorite Celtic for a couple of seasons. It isn't about basketball, though I do like his game. It's about him as a person, most of which I learned from The Guardian in an article I first linked in February 2018.
Here's Jaylen:
"There’s this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose so certain things are in place to make this happen... It’s a machine which needs people up top, and people down low."
I learned in the article that an unnamed NBA executive thought Brown was "too smart for his own good". I've had the same thing said about me. I suspect that when I saw the phrase in print alongside that above quote, sometime during my twenty-fourth month of unemployment, it struck a chord with me that has resonated to this day.
