Boston Celtics veteran small forward Jaylen Brown has been awarded the honor of being one of the Boston Globe’s 2020 “Bostonians of the Year” by virtue of the consistent work he does as an activist and organizer to fight social and racial inequity.
From his work in the NBA as one of several Vice Presidents of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) — and the youngest-ever member of the NBPA’s executive committee — to his work off-court serving as a fellow at Harvard to push for educational reform, or his protesting racial injustice in his native Atlanta, Brown is extraordinarily committed to leaving the league and world better than he found it.
From @BostonGlobeMag:
BOSTONIANS OF THE YEAR | The Celtics’ Jaylen Brown is a leader in the NBA and outside it https://t.co/MDmwZrH40P
— Boston Globe Sports (@BGlobeSports) December 10, 2020
“I want to be great, to have influence, to bring about positive change,” he told the Globe’s Gary Washburn. “That’s what pushes me every day, to lead my community, the people that look up to me.”
After the kind of leadership Brown demonstrated over the last year, that’s an increasingly large crowd — and as the Globe has taken note, for all the right reasons.
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