Jaylen Brown has finally found a friend and supporter in his battle with longtime Boston Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum: Michelle Beadle.

The longtime sportscaster and former ESPN personality was hosting her current podcast on Fanduel this week and said she found Tatum's attempt to greet Brown before Tuesday's Celtics-76ers game as disingenuous. 

Beadle said that one of two things is true in the situation with Brown and Tatum: Either Tatum is completely oblivious to the fact that Brown doesn't like him, or Tatum knows that Brown doesn't like him and was just trying to do something that made him look good. That's where her "disingenuous" comment came from.

She also said that society needs to normalize not everybody getting along and indicated that it's ok to have people that don't like each other.

Look, a lot of people don't like the modern NBA because of this very notion that everyone is friends. People hate the idea of seeing opponents act like best friends when they should be acting like rivals.

In the old-school NBA, you didn't really see that. You saw more animosity and more dislike, and a lot of people felt the passion was better in the old-style game.

Back in the day, players didn't change teams regularly. Players stayed with the same team for most, or all, of their careers. That led to real resentment among teams that ended up playing each other several years in a row.

Now, with player movement so prevalent, players have friends on every team in the league. Heck, a lot of them have played with guys on every team at this point.

Furthermore, youth basketball is different now than it used to be. There's so much AAU ball that a lot of these guys grow up together and they all become friends at a young age, which changes the dynamic when they get older.

I'm kind of with Beadle on her general premise. It's OK for people to dislike other people. But in this case, my issues lie with Brown not getting things off his chest. He does clearly resent Tatum, but because he won't say why, it leads us to become frustrated. If he would just say what's on his mind and what he's feeling, he'd likely earn more supporters.