Celtics’ Jaylen Brown to star in Season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Starting 5’

Earlier this month, basketball followers with Netflix accounts had been handled to the streaming service’s hoops docuseries, “Beginning 5.” It adopted 5 elite NBA gamers, together with Jayson Tatum, for a whole season, giving viewers a peak behind the scenes.

With the collection being so successful, it is going to be coming again for a second season. Very similar to the primary, in accordance with ESPN’s Shams Charania, this one will characteristic a Boston Celtics star — Jaylen Brown.

He will probably be featured alongside Kevin Durant, James Harden, Tyrese Haliburton, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

JB’s inclusion within the Netflix collection ought to make for an attention-grabbing watch. The Georgia native had himself fairly the summer season after profitable Finals MVP in June. He did tons of touring, labored towards the launch of his 741 Efficiency clothes line, and even made a number of eye-catching crimson carpet-appearances.

Brown’s 7uice Basis additionally constantly works to battle systemic racism and knock down obstacles to academic alternative, socio-economic mobility, and entry to well being and wellness for marginalized Black and Brown communities. Understanding how passionate he’s concerning the work that his basis does, it wouldn’t be remotely surprising to study a bit extra about it throughout the docuseries.

Moreover that, we as outsiders don’t know all that a lot concerning the Celtics star’s private life. Any time he’s behind the microphone, Brown is often gentle mannered. It’ll be thrilling to get to see extra of his day-to-day relationships, very like we did with Tatum on this yr’s version of the present.

Charania’s report didn’t embody a launch date for Season 2, however you’d must think about it’ll be proper earlier than the tip-off of the 2025-26 NBA season.