Jaylen Brown is a projected top 5 pick in this year's draft. Yet his intelligence may be held against him.
In a draft class that appears chock full of unknowns, one thing shines bright in the darkness: Jaylen Brown is very intelligent. The 19-year-old Brown chose to attend and play basketball at the University of California at Berkeley over perennial powerhouses like Kentucky and North Carolina not necessarily for basketball reasons, but because of the college's academic record. When he arrived on campus last fall, Brown passed on enrolling in the typical 100 level classes and instead enrolled in a master's level course that is a part of Cal's Cultural Studies of Sport in Education curriculum.