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5 years ago, Jaylen Brown said his teacher told him she’d look him up in jail. Now, he’s crushing it in the NBA.

MILWAUKEE — Five years ago, Celtics forward Jaylen Brown tweeted that his teacher told him she would one day look him up in the Cobb County Jail.

My teacher said she will look me up in the Cobb county jail in 5 years .. Wow

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) April 28, 2014

Brown — who at the time was 17 years old and a junior at Wheeler High School in his hometown of Marietta, Georgia — doesn’t know how the tweet resurfaced Sunday morning, on its five-year anniversary. But it went viral, garnering thousands of retweets and favorites.