Jaylen Brown speaks at Bill Nye's Hollywood star dedication

Boston Celtics defender Jaylen Brown was successful Los Angeles connected Monday -- but not for basketball.

He was determination to assistance grant Bill Nye astatine the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On Monday, Nye's prima was added to the iconic Los Angeles attraction, a tribute to his galore years arsenic a subject pedagogue successful popular culture. Nye roseate to fame for his relation presenting the 1990s amusement "Bill Nye the Science Guy," which came disconnected the aerial successful syndication signifier astatine the extremity of the decennary but lived connected successful classrooms astir the state for galore years after.

One of the galore students that Nye helped make a passionateness for science? The now-Celtics star.

Brown spoke astir Nye's power connected his and different students' involvement successful subject astatine Monday's ceremony.

"My emotion for subject runs deep, and I person Bill to convey for that," Brown said. "But not conscionable for myself, [but] for a procreation of students who grew up successful the nationalist schoolhouse strategy perchance reasoning that schoolhouse was not for them."

Nye's shows were built connected making subject acquisition captivating to young students, a diagnostic Brown besides touched connected successful his speech.

"When they rolled that TV retired with the trolley," Brown said, "we knew what clip it was."

Brown and Nye teaming up isn't a caller sight. In November, Brown expressed his involvement on societal media successful gathering the legendary tv amusement host. Less than a period later, the 2 connected successful the tunnel aft a Celtics-Washington Wizards game. A abbreviated portion later, Nye was a portion of the motorboat lawsuit successful Boston for Brown's "White Noise" sneakers successful February.

The guard's science-related ventures person agelong gone hand-in-hand with his hoops career. In 2019, helium became a Media Lab Director's Fellow astatine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among different world pursuits.

Brown and Celtics volition extremity disconnected the 2025 regular play connected Oct. 22 against the Philadelphia 76ers.