TIME writer goes behind the scenes on Jaylen interview

TIME writer goes behind the scenes on Jaylen interview originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

It was an eventful offseason for Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown, to say the least.

The 2024 NBA Finals MVP was left off Team USA’s Paris Olympics roster, but he deserves a gold medal for his off-the-court efforts. He got himself into even better shape for the new season, released a new song, and launched a new performance brand while traveling the world and continuing his philanthropic work.

In only a few months, Brown went from supposedly lacking marketability to gracing the cover of TIME magazine. The writer who profiled Brown for the cover story, Sean Gregory, joined Chris Forsberg on the latest Celtics Talk Podcast to share his biggest takeaways from the interview.

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“You never know with folks who do the philanthropy how real it is and how sincere (they are). People went out of their way, which gave me comfort, to be like, ‘It’s not performative.’ Like, Jaylen Brown really cares about this stuff,” Gregory said.

“Here’s an exchange that kind of (stood out). I can’t pronounce the words, panopticism or something? It was really telling that he started to give a response, which I sort of — I went back and listened, and it was fine, but he was so hell-bent on nailing it that he had a friend who’s kind of, I get the sense, a guy who helps manage him and think stuff through, who was sort of listening in. … He kind of butted in a little bit and said, ‘Hey, can we stop and talk this through?’

“I included it because I think it’s just telling about how he’s kind of – things are calculated. He cares about getting this stuff right. He could’ve just babbled his way through and it would’ve been fine, but he discussed what he wanted to say with his friend. … I don’t think he was going out of his way to be like, ‘I need to sound smart here.’ I think he went out of his way to be like, ‘I want to be right and I want to be accurate.’ And I appreciated that. I just thought it was…

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Publish date : 2024-10-09 19:28:27

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