https://youtu.be/h3qnvrAwIL8 I feel like he's a much, much better dribbler and passer than he got a chance to show in college. Interesting that he says his role model is Tracy McGrady. (Isiah Thomas is funny. Interesting tidbit about forcing Larry to shoot into the lights.) I'm growing into the idea of Brown being a legit star one day. I now feel like his floor is very high, I would be shocked if he were just an average player. I'm even sensing a little bitty slice of the probability pie chart opening up for "perennial MVP candidate", he's got pretty much all the ingredients for it.
Interesting, though, that he sees his purpose in life as helping people, that 10 championships would be, uh, nice. I'd prefer a rings-first world-be-free-second mentality from a franchise player. And along with that best case slice, there's also a tiny probability that he could wind up, say, taking a too-radical political stance that alienates the city from him and vice versa and forces a trade to New York or wherever, a tweet too pro-Panther or too anti-America, or maybe something unexpected like an endorsement of some Five Percenter philosophy, whatever. But I hope he has a healthy, intellectually fiesty but respectful, humanitarian ball here. As he leads us to 10 championships. I hope he winds up loving this city and establishing it for a new generation as the premier place to play for intelligent, conscious athletes. But it could go the other, uglier way, too. There's bound to be controversy at some point and, when that time comes, the smart subset of Celtics fans (of every political persuasion) should make sure to own the conversation (online, in written form, screw the radio) and own the identity of Celtic fandom instead of the subset of idiots (media included, especially) who unfortunately yap the loudest and stupidest.