Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard became the first NBA player to fully embrace teammate Jaylen Brown\u2019s new 741 shoe line, ditching his familiar Nikes to sport Brown\u2019s Performance Rover this season.<\/p>\n
Now Pritchard is steamrolling toward the Sixth Man of the Year honor and Brown is thrilled for his teammate.<\/p>\n
“I think it would be great [for Pritchard to win Sixth Man in 741s],\u201d said Brown, who debuted a new white colorway for his Performance Rover on Friday night at an event that featured Bill Nye the Science Guy at Boston\u2019s Museum of Science.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe willingness for Payton to just trust me. He knows how I am, he knows how thorough I am. He\u2019s never asked about the technology of the shoe, he’s never asked about what I’ve done. He just tried them on and played in them, and he loves them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just trusts me. He knows I\u2019ll put everything [into the shoes], I don’t leave no stone unturned. I put all the technology, I put everything that I needed to make sure that I would be safe into it.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s been out there balling in them, you know what I mean? He’s been good. He had 28 [points against the Sixers], first game off the break, straight from Turks and Caicos in the 741.\u201d<\/p>\n