Jaylen Brown speaks at Bill Nye’s Hollywood star dedication ceremony

Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown was in Los Angeles on Monday — however not for basketball.

He was there to assist honor Bill Nye on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On Monday, Nye’s star was added to the enduring Los Angeles attraction, a tribute to his a few years as a science educator in popular culture. Nye rose to fame for his function presenting the Nineteen Nineties present “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which got here off the air in syndication type on the finish of the last decade however lived on in lecture rooms across the nation for a few years after.

One of the numerous college students that Nye helped develop a ardour for science? The now-Celtics star.

Brown spoke about Nye’s affect on his and different college students’ curiosity in science at Monday’s ceremony.

“My love for science runs deep, and I have Bill to thank for that,” Brown said. “But not just for myself, [but] for a generation of students who grew up in the public school system possibly thinking that school was not for them.”

Nye’s reveals had been constructed on making science training fascinating to younger college students, a function Brown additionally touched on in his speech.

“When they rolled that TV out with the trolley,” Brown stated, “we knew what time it was.”

Brown and Nye teaming up is not a brand new sight. In November, Brown expressed his curiosity on social media in assembly the legendary tv present host. Less than a month later, the 2 connected in the tunnel after a Celtics-Washington Wizards recreation. A short time later, Nye was part of the launch event in Boston for Brown’s “White Noise” sneakers in February.

The guard’s science-related ventures have lengthy gone hand-in-hand along with his basketball profession. In 2019, he became a Media Lab Director’s Fellow on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, amongst different educational pursuits.

Brown and Celtics will tip off the 2025 common season on Oct. 22 in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers.