NBA, Jaylen Brown guest of Jimmy Butler: the summer spent training together. VIDEO

We have to go back almost 7 years and you have to go in California. A place that Jaylen Brown until then he had called ‘home’, because he had spent the year at Berkeleyacross the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, to play basketball with the Golden Eagles of California. He had declared himself for Draft following his freshman year, he was drafted with the third overall call by the Boston Celtics and that summer he was trying to prepare as best as possible for his debut in the NBA. Even asking for help from those who have already been playing in the NBA for a while. Jimmy Butlerfor example, at the time in force ai Chicago Bulls. For an entire summer Butler hosted his current conference finals opponent at his California home, training with him throughout the period. “It was very important to me because I saw up close his work ethic, discipline which he put into his work, the approach that he had at practice, and all this it motivated me to be the player I am today“, Jaylen Brown recalled just recently, who concluded: “Jimmy has always been a role model for me“. Now, almost seven years later, the two find themselves on the field as opponents with a ticket to the NBA Finals up for grabs: a lot has changed but not everything, because friendship and respect they remain, both on one side and on the other.