
The Boston Celtics saw their season end and Brown immediately took to the streaming world to talk about the officials in the playoffs, as well as Joel Embiid.
The Boston Celtics saw their season end in disappointing fashion on Saturday night in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference playoffs first round against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Celtics, who looked like Eastern Conference favorites at the beginning of the playoffs, are now onto to a long offseason full of difficult roster questions.
At least, that's what the executives will be doing.
Jaylen Brown, however, decided to get over the loss by almost immediately heading to Twitch for a live stream on Sunday night. And on that live stream, Brown took some shots at the officials in the series, complaining that he was targeted on the offensive end.
Per ESPN:
In another part of the Twitch stream, Brown showed a play in which Sixers forward Paul George appeared to push off slightly before making an offensive move.
"If you're going to call push-offs, call that," Brown said. "Same move. Same refs. Oh, it's nothing? It's play on, right?
"But you gonna call me? Everybody does it ... but if it would have been me, it'd have been an offensive foul."
Brown was called for 10 offensive fouls in the first round, twice as many as the next-highest player (Jalen Duren, Karl-Anthony Towns, Neemias Queta, Stephon Castle).
Brown was critical of the officials at multiple points throughout the season, and he seems to think that he was targeted by the officials, potentially because of that criticism.
While some fans probably found his Twitch stream entertaining, not everyone in sports media liked it. Take Emmanuel Acho, who said that Brown wasn't taking the loss hard enough.
Former NBA point guard Jason Williams actually seemed to like the stream, but he did not like additional comments that Brown made about Joel Embiid. Brown made sure to praise Embiid's play, but was also critical of his flopping.
“You just lost in game 7. We know that Joel Embiid flops. We get it.. it feels like it’s about excuses and that’s not who Jaylen Brown is. He said a lot of great things during that stream, but that one thing, he shouldn’t have said”
Former NBA All-Star Michael Redd also chipped in to the conversation, saying that this wasn't the time or place for Brown to make these remarks.
Jaylen Brown is a great player. A great player. Fans just need slightly more right now.
I need to rewatch game tape, to know if Brown's right or not, but what I do know is: fans don't want to hear this the day after losing a G7 as the higher seed. They need accountability. They need ownership of what happened. They need to know you appreciate the gravity and can and will bounce back.
Then, and only then, can you start diving into who else is to blame and what outside factors might have played a role.
(And maybe he did take ownership elsewhere in the stream, but I haven't seen it clipped anywhere yet.)
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