“2,500 pushups and 1,000 suicides before you could play on a high school basketball team — if my high school coach would have told me that, Jaylen Brown would have never made it to the NBA,” suggested Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown, talking about a scene from the film “Coach Carter”.
The Georgian took some time for GQ to review some famous scenes from basketball films, and Brown has some interesting takes on these classic hoop flicks in a very different sort of “film study”.
The Cal-Berkeley product reviewed “He Got Game” — Jaylen felt he can relate to Jesus Shuttlesworth, the character played by fellow Celtic alumni Ray Allen — and offered his own services should a similar role be needed in the future.
Maybe we can get a sequel where Allen plays Jesus as Brown’s dad?
He also reviewed “White Men Can’t Jump,” in which Brown dug the trash talk (“Game on the line — that’s when the trash talking gets to its peak”), Space Jam (“I’m digging the warm-up aerobics”), “Semi Pro” (he shared ex-teammate IT was as bad as Will Ferrell with the refs), among others.
If you haven’t, take a moment to watch Brown’s reviews of these classic basketball films — it’s loaded with nuggets about his own experiences and examples of nonsense passing as normal behavior in the sport.
There’s even some sage words on training with women’s basketball players if you stick around long enough — and you should, if you want to know which film was his favorite.
