MIAMI – Standing out in the crowd at Gulliver Prep is broad receiver Jalen Brown, and although his identify could possibly sound acquainted to basketball admirers, there is no relation to the guy who averaged nearly 25 factors per match a night for the Boston Celtics, so make sure you keep the tweets.
CBS4’s Mike Cugno had the chance to catch up with Brown to speak about his operate on the gridiron.
“There is certainly a great deal of DMs imagining I’m the Celtics,” stated Brown.
“Has any person famous sent you DMs?” questioned Cugno.
“No, no one particular famous nevertheless, but a whole lot of supporters and things assume I am the Celtics basketball player so they tag me in a large amount of stuff,” reported Brown.
Brown is carving out his individual little bit of fame.
He is a person of the greatest-rated receivers in the nation, recognised for not only his hands but his blazing velocity on the keep track of.
As a sophomore, he was the regional champ in the 100 meters.
“I dominate the soccer like I consider to dominate the observe. I really feel like I am pretty significantly one of the country’s quickest players, so I am going to operate observe like the fastest participant in the nation,” mentioned Brown.
At a new video game for the Gulliver Prep Raiders – CBS4 noticed just how rapidly Jalen can modify directions on an opponent.
Probably exhibiting off a couple of points he learned from Dolphins speedster Tyreek Hill who labored out with Jalen in the off-time.
“There was a health and fitness center down in Tiny Haiti that I go to through the summer time. I work out there a whole lot. He begun doing the job out there. Just one day they were like ‘Tyreek Hill is heading to do the job out with you.'”
“We did a very little fat room workout. Then we went on the subject. We did a whole lot of footwork, a good deal of agility, a good deal of velocity stuff. He gave me some information. Fundamentally just telling me to engage in rapid, participate in challenging, velocity is something God-given so use your speed to the best of your ability,” mentioned Brown.
