Man, I really cannot fathom to this day, Jaylen Brown's teacher thought he would've ended up in jail despite practically averaging 4.0 and literally excelling in almost every academic course..
I've long been leery of some of Brown's credentials, and you're backing up why (but also proves his marketing is working).
From what I can find online, Brown didn't have anywhere near a 4.0 GPA, it was 2.9, nowhere near what I'd call excelling in every course as it was probably mostly B's and a C.
It's the marketing spin that gets you though. There's always talk about the chess team, graduate level college courses, various "nerdy" activities, etc. that will lead you to believe he's this super smart guy. But you'll notice there's never any talk of the actual results/achievements in those areas, they just talk about the participation and hope your mind fills in the blanks.
Not hating on Brown, I like him, and not saying he's not smart/intelligent, but I think his level of smartness/intelligence is over-hyped.
Back to the subject at hand. Maybe Brown's an easily offended guy or the kind of guy that looks for a reason to be offended. I've always wondered about the context of that teacher comment, and now I'm wondering about the context of this Donovan comment too.
With the teacher comment, I've always pictured it being preceded with something like "if you keep acting like this" or "if you keep going down this path" or "if you hang out with those people" or Brown was misbehaving or being a class clown or thought he was above the rules as a big time athlete or something. Obviously I wasn't there, and Brown appears to be far from a knucklehead, but I've known even good kids to act out in some way in high school. In my own personal experience I've known more kids that play the victim than teachers who say something truly malicious, but there are terrible teachers, so it could go either way. I just have my doubts on the full context, and now with this Donovan grudge it only adds to my doubt.
So with Donovan's comment, to me it sounds like he was just trying to motivate Brown, in a way I imagine a lot of coaches do, even Stevens. "If you keep playing this way, you're going to be out of the league in a few years!" Brown sounds unnecessarily offended here based on the little context I have.
"That was his way, and I really didn’t appreciate that at all. It upset me,” Brown said. "I’m not cool with him to this day. For someone to say that was a lot for a 17-year-old.
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