Jaylen Brown’s Old Tweet Resurfaces Hours After Signing Largest Deal in NBA History: “Look Me Up in Cobb County Jail”

Tonoy Sengupta | 26/07/2023
Jaylen Brown’s 9 Year Old ‘Teacher’ Tweet Resurfaces Hours After Signing NBA’s Largest Deal at $304,000,000: “Look Me Up in Cobb County Jail”

Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics have had quite a bit to smooth over in the last couple of years. The 26-year-old was arguably their best player during the 2022 NBA Finals and has only gotten better since. Despite that, Brown kept popping up in trade rumors, something he publicly admitted to be irked by. That being said, after nearly a month of negotiating, the two-time All-Star recently set all that aside to sign the NBA’s largest-ever supermax contract. Amidst his brilliant achievement, a tweet from nine years ago resurfaced, which had his teacher’s shocking prediction about him.

Brown’s salary is beyond massive. It also comes with a trade kicker (a percentage of the contract awarded as a bonus to the player in case of a trade), which is fully guaranteed. However, there is no player option in the contract.

Jaylen Brown’s teacher had a dark prediction for him when he was 17 years old

Jaylen Brown is often one of the smartest people in any room. He had a 3.1 GPA in school, an internship from NASA, and is even learning different languages, already being fluent in Spanish while trying to learn Arabic.

All that is to say, by all accounts, Brown was a brilliant student before his time in the NBA. Yet, as he revealed in a tweet in 2014, his teacher didn’t think much of him and went on to make a prediction so bold that the Celtics star had to tweet about it 10 years ago.

As soon as Brown signed his contract with the Boston Celtics, fans immediately went back to this tweet and congratulated him in the comment section. Admittedly, the Celtics star doesn’t seem like the type of person to hold grudges. Despite that, this one likely felt pretty good for him.

When the incident with his teacher happened, Brown was a junior at Wheeler High in the Cobb County district in Georgia. Years after the incident, the Celtics star would be asked about how he felt on the matter and if it still bothered him. As per Boston.com, here is what he said in 2019.

“I don’t really want to get into what happened because I want to leave it in the past where it belongs… I let it be the past.

In Georgia, the education system isn’t the best, so I don’t really put too much blame on the teacher. It is what it is. When you have one teacher handling 35 kids in one class, it’s tough. A lot of teachers go through stuff and take a lot of crap out there all day, so who knows what was going through her mind that day when she said that.”

Brown also added that he ‘spiritually and emotionally’ got past it a long time ago. He also added that, when it happened, both the school and his parents took care of what needed to be done.
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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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