Sashi Brown understands how he gets to be labeled “the football guy” in Washington Wizards managing partner Ted Leonsis’ unorthodox, revamped front office that features three basketball lifers and a longtime soccer trainer who most recently worked in the NBA. After all, Brown’s highest-profile and most recent job before joining the Wizards was serving as either the visionary or overmatched executive vice president of the Cleveland Browns.
While Brown isn’t running from and takes pride in his past, attaching an all-encompassing label isn’t all that fair to someone who used his smarts and a lifelong passion for sports to make a remarkable and rapid rise up an NFL that kept providing impossible-to-resist opportunities. It doesn’t fully capture a 43-year-old Harvard law alum who didn’t grow up in Boston limiting his love to just one game — he wanted to be both Darrell Green and Isiah Thomas.
“I don’t think anybody likes being put in boxes,” Brown…
