Brooke Sutherland

Can you talk about what motivated that decision and why you chose to do it?

What's it been like running your own sneaker brand?

I mean, you're essentially a small businessman at that point.

And what lessons have you learned from that that you might want to pass on to that next generation of athletes?

and actually engaging with that consumer of your products.

And you're also an investor in Happy, which is a tech wellness company.

And I wondered if you could talk a little bit about what that company does and why you chose to get involved with it.

And we've talked about some of your endeavors, and we're going to talk about more of them.

But I did want to ask, I mean, even just the ones we've already talked about, how difficult is it to do things like that with a season that stretches as long as the NBA?

How do you devote enough time to these different ventures?

When you signed your five-year, $304 million contract extension with the Boston Celtics, you announced another kind of long-term investment, and that was your vision to build a modern-day version of Black Wall Street here in Boston.

Can you talk about why that particular issue is one that you've chosen to focus on, and ultimately what you do hope to achieve here in Boston?

Is there a particular success story from that first round of applicants to your incubator accelerator program that you're particularly proud of?

So do you plan to do another round of applicants for the incubator?

And is there a timeline for that?

And you touched on this a bit, and this may be the research that you were referencing, but in 2015, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published a very influential study that found the typical white household in Boston has a median wealth of nearly $250,000 compared to just $8 for U.S.-born blacks and $0 for Dominicans.

Non-white households were significantly less likely to own homes or stocks than white households.

How have you seen that kind of wealth change?

disparity reflected yourself when you're out and talking to people in Boston and meeting with people?

In recent years, we have seen, to your point, a number of organizations announce commitments to economic equity, but we have also seen organizations pull back from or recast diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, particularly recently with President Donald Trump's crackdown on such programs.