Fresh off of one of the lowest moments of his basketball career, Jaylen Brown spent a week hanging out with Boston students. Haunted by a disastrous Game 7 loss to Miami, he vowed he’d do everything he could to be better.
“It was embarrassing,” Brown said of the 8-turnover performance. “I dropped the ball. It drove me crazy all summer.”
But hanging out with the Bridge kids served as an escape. The Bridge program, which Brown has described as “a summer camp without basketball,” is an opportunity for Black and Brown youth from the Boston area to immerse themselves in a broad range of topics, from community organizing to artificial intelligence.