Celtics Star Jaylen Brown Pitches Spin-Off TV Show With Childhood Idol

Jaylen Brown has already conquered professional basketball, and now the Boston Celtics star and reigning NBA Finals MVP is considering his next venture.

Brown launched his own athletic line, 741 Performance, launched a non-profit, Boston Xchange, and even dropped his debut rap track titled “Just Do It,” in collaboration with A$AP Ferg. It was a busy, boundary-pushing summer for the 28-year-old but it wasn’t enough to moderate Brown’s creativity as the four-time All-Star floated another outside-the-box idea: collaborating with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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“So I teach,” Brown told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night. “I do have an MIT fellowship and I’ve done lectures at Harvard so I told him maybe we can do like a Bill Nye spin-off or something. I would love to do something in educational journeys, kind of, like, pass the torch and take where he left off.”

Brown added: “I just grew up loving education, and he made learning fun. I know a lot of people probably feel the same way but, yeah, shoutout to Bill.”

Nye, the 69-year-old scientist behind the iconic children’s television series that resonated with 1990s kids, was a major influence on Brown — Brown was born in 1996. Nye spent six seasons hosting the show and informing young children about the wonders of science through entertaining skits, experiments and elementary explanations to simplify some of the universe’s most complex topics.

Nye, now retired from television, is CEO of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes space exploration. And even though the youngsters of today’s age aren’t as familiar with Nye, Brown remains a lifelong fan. So much so, that Brown made it his mission to finally meet the man who made science fun for everyone in the ’90s.

Brown published a message on X that read, “How can I meet Bill Nye the science guy,” followed by a goat emoji on Nov. 2. Less than three weeks later, Brown’s dream came true as Nye sat courtside during a Celtics matchup in Washington against the Wizards and posed for a photograph with the man himself.

“I can’t remember what even made me tweet that,” Brown told reporters postgame. “I think I was just thinking about the educational experience and it just crossed my mind like ‘Man, I gotta meet this guy.’ His contributions to STEM and STEAM have been amazing and he made learning fun. Growing up, I used to be excited when a teacher used to say we’re watching Bill Nye today.”

It’s hard to imagine Nye returning to television alongside an NBA superstar anytime soon, but if anyone’s qualified it’s Brown. During Brown’s lone college year at Cal, in which he partook in learning foreign languages and completed graduate-level courses, Brown was offered an internship at NASA.

But with the 2016 NBA draft on the horizon at the time, Brown turned down the offer.

Considering Brown has tackled every possible avenue for creative expression, from challenging Nike to entering the hip-hop scene, there’s no reason to put anything past him — including a reboot with the Science Guy.