Celtics star Jaylen Brown offers to sponsor basketball tournaments that will invite Donda Academy

Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown on Friday offered to sponsor tournaments that will host the elite prep basketball team at Donda Academy, the private school started by Kanye West.

Brown addressed the matter in a series of posts on his Twitter account and wrote of the players, "We do not cancel our kids.''

In the past 72 hours, four major high school basketball tournaments disinvited Donda Academy's team because of the fallout over antisemitic comments from the rapper and business mogul now known as Ye.

Earlier this week, Brown and Los Angeles Rams star Aaron Donald left Ye’s marketing company, Donda Sports, they’d joined earlier this year. But on Friday, a day after reports that Donda Academy had closed for the rest of the school year, Brown sounded off on Twitter.

“A lot of great teachers parents and students are affected by this,’’ he wrote. “It is easy to speak from the outside looking in I spent time at Donda academy and it is alot better than some public schools in America with a better curriculum high school students were fully accredited.’’’

He also added, “Anti-Semitism should be handled with sensitivity and respect, Inequalities /lack of opportunity in our education system should be handled with sensitivity and respect, A school with resources/ opportunity academically and athletically have been taken away abruptly without notice.’’

Kimberly Hicks, the mother of Justin Johnson, a starting forward at Donda Academy, on Thursday told USA TODAY Sports the team practiced that morning. She also said the team's head coach, Dorell Wright, told her the team plans to play during the upcoming season.

“I trust Dorell Wright by making a decision for the boys,’’ Hicks said.

Wright has not responded to requests for comment from USA TODAY Sports.

But as the team attempts to move forward, its schedule has been impacted by the fallout over Ye’s antisemitic remarks.

Tournaments that have dropped Donda Academy include: the John Wall Holiday Invitational in Raleigh, North Carolina; HoopHall Classic in Springfield, Massachusetts; the Scholastic Play-By-Play Classics in Louisville; and the City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Florida.

Brown, who made the 2021 NBA All-Star Game, raised the possibility of the players’ futures being compromised, tweeting, “High school Students are potentially getting there scholarships pulled for there affiliation with Donda are we serious?”

The team has a handful of top prospects, including point guard Robert Dillingham, who has committed to Kentucky, and guard AJ Johnson.

Donda Academy is scheduled to open the season Nov. 3 against Minnesota Prep Academy at the Minnesota Shorty Classic at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NBA star Jaylen Brown offers to help Donda Academy basketball team