The Boston Celtics and the precedents set by Hall of Fame big man Bill Russell as a basketball player unafraid to use the platform his excellence in his sport of choice gave him reverberate through history up into the present, with so many in the sport today following his lead.
And perhaps no more emblematic of that tradition is the Celtics’ own Jaylen Brown, who has made a name for himself by bending his platform to a number of causes seeking radical change for the better of society’s more precarious. Speaking at a panel at his adopted city’s Museum of Fine Arts called “The City Talks: Leading From Anywhere,” Brown explained why he does.
