Jaylen Brown: To me, the biggest misconception is that sports and politics don’t coexist
“What’s the biggest misconception from a fan about being an NBA player? ” Jaylen Brown: “To me, the biggest misconception is that sports and politics don’t coexist . I think most people — I think the average mind thinks, ‘Oh, it’s just sports.
It’s not connected to anything. It’s just entertainment. ’ So untrue.
So untrue. I’ve sat in a million meetings. We’re not supposed to discuss the discretion of what those meetings are, or their topics of conversation, but I will say the partners of our league — even the NBA — have a huge influence on the decision-making, or the pressure that the NBA puts on players.
Because it’s a big revenue driver: partners of the NBA, partners of our league. And sometimes these partners have political agendas and biases versus what’s the state of the world, versus what’s going on. And that gets pushed onto us to have to either co-sign or not.
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