Jaylen Brown, Wyc Grousbeck, Boston Celtics named among 150 most influential Bostonians

Wyc Grousbeck and the Boston Celtics and Jaylen Brown have been named to Boston Magazine’s “150 Most Influential Bostonians” list for 2025. Grousbeck and the Celtics (as a unit) clock in at an impressive No. 1 overall (beating the likes of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu), with Brown currently ranked at No. 20.

The sale of the team and their historic 18th banner were of course the main calling card for Grousbeck et al., lauded for their approach to the change in ownership as much as bringing the title town status back to Boston. “The victory meant something even more for team governor and lead owner Wyc Grousbeck, who’d spent the past two decades leading the Celtics alongside his father, Irving, co-owner Steve Pagliuca, team president Rich Gotham, general manager Brad Stevens, and many others,” writes Boston Magazine.

As for Brown, his community-building efforts with the 7uice Foundation were noted as paramount to his high rank, as was his launch of Boston Xchange, created “to narrow Boston’s racial wealth gap.”

His prowess on the parquet was also a factor of course, but it was heartening to see the Georgia native being honored for his contributions to the local community beyond basketball.