Jaylen Brown

I think at this point it's just, it's kind of normal.

You know, from 18 when I first came in to the NBA, I kind of,

had my experience cultivated at Berkeley where I interned at a VC when I was at Berkeley Base Ventures with Eric Moore on top of doing what I did athletically and then also challenging myself academically through graduate courses and stuff like that.

So I think UC Berkeley really prepared me for the journey that I'm going through right now.

Sure.

Yeah, I think having a platform I look at as a responsibility.

like being able to affect households that you may not ever get to see or reach or families and the next generation in a sense.

So I take that with a great responsibility.

So anytime that I can, I try to push what I view as important and what I want the next generation to learn about, what I want them to emphasize and what I think being an athlete is about.

You know, it's not just about entertainment.

It is about influence, to be able to have a positive influence on your community, to be able to have a positive influence on, you know, society in itself.

So I kind of try to live my life in that regard.

I would hope so.

I would like to think that.

Maybe sometimes it feels like that's not the case, but I would like to think that the next generation is going to be a lot more athletes who are understanding their value

thinking about how to use their platform, also developing themselves outside of just being, you know, entertainer slash athlete and developing how they can have a positive role, influence on society and the community in itself.

I would think there's in the future, there'll be a bunch more athletes that will be coming by.

And I've talked to a lot of them.

You know, I just think the courage,

is what they just need.