Boston Celtics All-Star forward Jaylen Brown took a page from his past, and paid respect to an NBA star from another era who gave him a word of advice while he was still a high school basketball prospect.
That star was a one Tracy McGrady, who tweeted to a young Jaylen Brown on Twitter to “remember humble and hungry” in 2014. The Georgia native would reply “I got you,” and seven years later, he absolutely did. Brown decided to dig deep and pay homage to McGrady with a pair of throwback red and blue Adidas emblazoned with McGrady’s words “Humble & Hungry”
The occasion was of course the Cal-Berkeley product’s first All-Star appearance, the fruit of Brown’s humility and hunger over the years since McGrady offered up that advice.
Jaylen Brown dedicates his kicks for his first All-Star Game appearance to Tracy McGrady 🙌 pic.twitter.com/j1c4iR2wYc
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) March 7, 2021
First shared by Brown in his Instagram story, take a look at the kicks in the images embedded above.
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