Jaylen Brown signed a deal with adidas shortly before the Celtics made him the No. 3 pick in the 2016 draft — a move the sneaker company reportedly made with an eye on breaking back into basketball.
At the time, adidas was about to lose its exclusive deal with the NBA and it snapped up as many players in the 2016 draft as it could (although it lost out on two of the top names: No. 1 pick Ben Simmons and NCAA Player of the Year Buddy Hield).
Reportedly, adidas forked over $1 million annually to Brown for the life of their contract.