-I think most people thought I peaked in my second year
in the league, and I didn't peak at 21.
-Alley-oop for Brown.
And it goes coast to coast. -Once again, Brown.
-During the draft process,
an exec said that you were too smart.
-That was true.
-To Brown.
-Knocks down a three!
-Was your role last year, and what was your role this year,
and what do you attribute that leap to?
-Space. I think we had a lot of guys last year.
I think that wasn't a secret.
I was asked to come off the bench.
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-My name is Jaylen Brown --
Cal Bear, Boston Celtic, Georgia boy, Atlanta native,
and she about to be all up in my business,
but we're going to take it there with Taylor Rooks.
-Jaylen Brown. That's a throw.
Jaylen Brown knocks down a huge shot.
-What is this? What is this?
-Acne Studio. Just came in today.
-This is fine. This is my vibe right here.
-This is it, with jeans and pants?
We got some sweatpants. -You know me.
-Yes, sir.
-Okay, so how are you as a client?
Like, you know what you like. Is it easy for you?
-Yeah, we've been working together for --
-A year-plus.
-She picks the clothes, and then I'll put it together.
-All right, now, Jaylen, I've always wondered this,
like, as I look at these clothes.
Now, be honest.
How do you decide what you're going to wear
for, like, a regional game or a national game,
and is there a thought process behind it?
For me, it depends.
Like, how I dress is just basically,
like, how I'm feeling at the time.
Like, I try to, like, mood it,
like, how I'm going to be feeling,
like, if we're playing a certain team,
Like, I'll have a fit already put together,
but I'll only wear it when I feel
I'm feeling that fit. Does that make sense?
-No, I feel you, 'cause, see, in my head,
I thought it was like, "All right, listen, we're playing
the -- I don't know, we're playing the Lakers.
I got to get the fit up.
I got to get the pic in the tunnel."
You don't ever think that at all.
-I mean, everybody does. I want to win the game first.
-Absolutely.
-That's a topic of discussion right now.
-Oh yes. Who was it? J.J. Redick was talking about --
-J.J. Redick said that. So I'm all about winning first.
But for me, always being seen, got to look good.
So she helps me look good. -Thank you. Thank you.
-She don't got to do much.
-Ah, here we go.
Yes, you do. I know how you dress him.
-[ Chuckles ]
-You know, it's interesting, 'cause last year,
when they announced the extension,
a lot of people, they're, like --
Twitter, almost felt like it was too much,
they shouldn't have paid you.
How did that feel knowing that there was
this kind of negative reaction to the extension?
-I kind of anticipated it.
I kind of felt like that was what's going to be said.
I think most people thought I peaked
in my second year in the league, and I didn't peak at 21.
I'm only going to get better from here.
Certain people think that I'm playing out of my mind now
'cause they didn't expect it.
You know, so that's part of the reason why I cut my hair,
'cause people will put you in a box per certain stipulations
or try to identify you a certain way,
and I wanted people to kind of see me different this year.
-I think a lot of people wouldn't know how to bounce back
from maybe what was a tough year.
Mentally, how did you become better after that?
-It was tough.
I suffer from a lot of anxiety.
When you have some of these expectations,
especially in a city like Boston,
which is, like, they want to win,
if they're not performing,
you start to lose your confidence,
you start to doubt yourself.
A part of me coming into this year
was, like, not dealing with that negativity,
like, saying, "'F' that. Fuck that."
I said, "Cut my hair, cut my care."
Like, "Let him go, stop caring what people think,"
and I reached a new pinnacle of happiness and peace.
Yes.
-Okay. He's feeling himself.
Please take off the jacket.
-No, I love it.
-Please take it off.
I see you, like, attempting some waves.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh. -Little bit.
It's a little swimmy.
-Yo, she just tried to play me like that.
-He's waving a little bit.
[ Laughter ] -It's a process.
You know what I mean? Get the close-up.
Hold up, man. Get the close-up. You know what I mean?
Waves coming in. You know what I mean?
360. All right back up. That's it.
-Yeah, see, you can't see it when you're close.
-She got jokes today, okay. I'm letting you rock.
I ain't say nothing about your ankles.
Look. Zoom in. -Ah!
They ashy?
-They look -- look, don't try to hide.
-No, you can zoom in at my ankles. Zoom in.
It's fair. It's fair game. Do you have any lotion for me?
-Nope. -No you don't. Okay.
Can we see your ankles?
-Nope. Next fit.
-I saw a story when you were playing the Jazz last season,
and, in game, Donovan Mitchell came up
and said something to you.
-Mm-hmm. -Can you tell me that story?
-That was one of the games that kind of stood out
because I was at the brink.
I felt like things were out of my control.
I felt like, you know, I have this amount of talent,
and I was asked to take a back seat.
It was very hard for me to deal with.
In the middle of the game, like, Donovan comes up to me,
like, asked me, like, "Bro, you good?"
You know, most people tell you,
if I were to ask you, "Were you good?"
you would tell me you were good even though you might not be.
Right? So I told him I was good, and I really wasn't.
People asked me, like Danny Ainge asked me if I was okay.
Told him I was good.
But in reality, I had, like, a lot of anxiety, you know,
dealing with, you know, that whole scenario last year.
It was a lot for me. It took a lot to get out of that.
-I called Donovan and asked about that moment, and he said,
you know, "I have known Jaylen a long time.
I know how he is. So I knew something was wrong."
-For me, I like to isolate myself sometimes.
So not being around people
was kind of, like, the way I kind of deal with things,
and it's not always the best way to kind of deal with stuff.
Family and friends are necessary.
Talking about it to people or having somebody to vent to
or having somebody help lift you up can be good.
-You said something that I thought was interesting
in that same story that you're as good
as the role that you're in.
What was your role last year,
and what was your role this year,
and what do you attribute that leap to?
-Space. I think we had a lot of guys last year.
I think that wasn't a secret.
Last year, I was asked to come off the bench
after coming off of a great playoffs,
after coming off a great second year.
This year, I'm one of the starters, one of the leaders,
so I have a lot more responsibility,
a lot more weight to carry.
People had the expectations of me what I'm doing now,
but I didn't have that responsibility.
It's a blessing. I don't look at it as a negative thing.
I look at it as a great thing.
I learned so much more about myself.
So I'm not knocking the Celtics.
It was actually needed for me to go to where I'm trying to go.
-Jaylen Brown!
-Got both of you something.
[ Laughter ]
-My dawg. -Got me some lotion.
You know what? Good looking, though.
Good looking on the ankles.
Good looking on the ankles. -Thank you, A.K.
-No problem. -[ Laughs ]
-So, what is it like having Kemba Walker on the team now?
-Kemba is like somebody, like,
you knew growing up all your life,
just, like, the homey,
the older brother that's been through it all,
seen it all, and just happy to be here.
-What's he like as a leader?
When I saw Kemba's leadership for the first time was at USA.
Obviously the goal that we had didn't plan out
the way we expected it to. We all wanted to win.
We didn't want to come home unless we did win, and we lost.
Kemba, the way he handled that and lifted everybody up
and told us, "This is not the end.
Everybody's going to be better from this," was great for us.
-Speaking of Team USA, Jayson Tatum.
-Mm-hmm. -First off,
how often do people say "Jayson" when they mean "Jaylen"
and "Jaylen" when they mean "Jayson"
'cause I always almost do it?
-Brad does it a lot.
Brad be drawing up the play and be saying Jaylen,
but put "J.T." on the clipboard.
So me and J.T. look at each other.
We're like, "All right, bro.
One of us is going to get the bucket."
Like, It don't even matter.
-What is it about Jayson Tatum that makes him so good?
That "it" factor, that niceness factor.
He can do the same move as somebody else.
It just look better when he do it.
You know what I mean? He just got it.
Some people got it and some people don't.
He got that "it" factor, for sure.
-Black tee inside with black jeans?
What would you like?
-I'll try the jacket on right now.
Growing up in Atlanta, where I'm from,
people will talk about you.
It's a part of the culture.
You come to school, and your shoes is busted up,
people will, like, make fun of you.
You know, so growing up in that culture,
what you have on your feet
was always, like, the most important thing.
To this day, like, I look at people's shoes
before I look at their face. I don't know why that is.
Just growing up, like, it's just been conditioned that way.
-Who in the NBA style do you like,
like, you feel like they are very well-dressed?
-P.J. Tucker. I feel like he's the best-dressed dude
in the league for sure.
Tyson Chandler is the O.G.
If I was 40 years old and I was 7 foot,
I would dress like him. He got nice style, too.
-You good? We got everything you need?
-Got everything. -All right, we out?
-We out.
-Perfect. Thank you, A.K.
Okay, Jaylen, time to take you home.
-Okay, true or false and why is the game, okay?
You have to pick one. Don't go between the two.
You got to pick true or false. -I got you.
-Okay. "Queen & Slim" is better than "Love & Basketball."
-Whoa.
I'm going to go false.
I love "Queen & Slim,"
but off of G.P., general principle,
I'm going to have to go "Love & Basketball."
It's a classic.
-True or false and why -- during the draft process,
an exec said that you were too smart.
-That was true. I don't know why the exec thought
that that would be a bad thing.
I think when, you know, athletes are also informative,
it might intimidate people for whatever reason.
LeBron and K.D. with the whole "Shut Up and Dribble" movement
was a big push in the generation
because athletes get a pushback from society
for, you know, their outside interests,
and I feel like this generation that I'm a part of now,
I think it's a movement going on,
and I'm a part of that movement.
-Okay. True or false and why --
I tricked you into saying you're going to get five rings.
-True. Very true.
-I do want to give you the opportunity to explain,
'cause I know you feel like it was taken out of context.
-How many championships 28-year-old Jaylen got?
-I'm not going to jinx myself, but six years,
I'm going to go ahead and say five or six.
I'm going to say that.
-So you winning a championship every year from here to --
-Yeah, I don't want to jinx myself.
-You already did. You already said it.
-And I don't play to lose.
So I'm going to go ahead and say --
I'm going to give it a five.
-I didn't set you up. I just asked you a question.
-Right. I didn't say you set me up.
-Okay.
-But the way, you know, they kind of, like, put it out there,
the clickbait title was
"Jaylen Brown said he's going to have..."
When people look at that, like, "Who does Jaylen Brown
think he is to say he's going to have five or six rings
by the time he's 28?"
You know, I had to answer to, like, Danny Ainge.
Like, he came to me and was like,
"You're being disrespectful,"
but I didn't mean any disrespect,
'cause I know how hard it is just to win one.
I wasn't guaranteeing anything, I wasn't trying to be arrogant,
or I wasn't saying that this is going to happen.
I was just like, if I wanted things to go a certain way,
that's the way I want them to go.
I'm over it. I'm past it.
I'm glad you brought it up, 'cause we low-key had beef.
-We absolutely had beef. We absolutely had beef.
We Gucci now, though.
I was like, "Don't leave me hanging there.
We Gucci."
Take me to your decision to go to Cal.
-I was number one, number two,
number three high school recruit,
so I could've went to pretty much any school I wanted to.
Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina,
UCLA -- all great schools.
It just wasn't fit for me.
I was actually sitting next to a girl in AP World History,
and I was listening to her narrowing down her list,
and the reasons why she was narrowing down her list
was totally different from mine.
I was looking at jersey colors.
She was looking at, like, the business climate
outside of, like, this.
She was looking at all --
I asked her to help me narrow down my list.
She looked at some school, and she was like,
"No, no, no," and she was like, "This is a good school,"
and one of those schools was Cal.
-What was her name? -Michelle.
-Shout out to Michelle.
Speaking of that process,
'cause I heard a little rumor once,
how close were you to going to North Carolina?
-I was very close to going to UNC.
To this day, I love, absolutely adore Coach Roy,
'cause UNC growing up, my mom would tell you,
like, I was the biggest UNC fan.
I had all the memorabilia.
I had everything, like, M.J., everything, and Roy came.
When he came on a visit, he brought, like, Jordan's rings.
-Oh, he pulled out all the stops.
-He did the whole thing.
So it was hard for me not to go.
My mom, she made me do something interesting.
When I committed, she made me call every head coach
from the schools that I wasn't going to
and tell them why I wasn't going.
She was like,
"You're going to have to conduct business one day,
and you need to learn how to manage these relationships,"
and Roy was one of the very few, like, one of two, I think,
that I talked to him for about an hour,
and he talked to me about, like, what he saw in my potential,
what he compared it to.
That made me, like, look at him different.
-Absolutely, 'cause genuinely cared.
-Yeah, so that stuck with me.
Even though I didn't go to UNC
and everything turned out the way it was supposed to,
I always look back over my shoulder, like, "What if?"
We played in preseason against Charlotte
two years ago at Chapel Hill.
I went and gave him a big hug,
and I almost, like, dropped a tear.
To this day, if, Roy, you need some help with anything,
recruitment, I got you, bro.
-He got you.
Got some good clothes?
Get your pic off. [ Laughs ]
-Here you go. -Post on the 'Gram.
You trying to post on the 'Gram?
-You trying to be funny. -[ Laughs ] I am funny.
Well, thank you for letting us spend a day with you.
I took a lot of time but worth it.
-No problem. Appreciate you. My pleasure.
Thanks so much, Jaylen. Have a good season.
-All right. I'm out.
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