Jaylen Brown found an unexpected voice of support in the New England Patriots' locker room Thursday.

Patriots safety Jaylinn Hawkins played his college football at the University of California, arriving at Berkeley in the fall of 2015. As it turns out, that's also when Brown showed up on campus to play for the Golden Bears' basketball team.

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And while they only overlapped for one school year -- Brown was drafted by the Boston Celtics in the summer of 2016, while Hawkins stayed at Cal until 2020 -- Hawkins has always rooted for Brown from afar.

So, when Hawkins was asked Thursday at Gillette Stadium if he had any reaction to officials missing a tripping call on Brown near the end of the Celtics' loss to the Utah

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