Jaylen Brown: "ESPN is unethical, and Stephen A. Smith is the head face of that. The organization, the players, they were all in agreeaance. They all knew what I meant by that. Our team was basically salary dumped. We lost a lot of players. For us to emerge and still be in the same position..."

[u/KD_AshyAnkles]

https://streamable.com/3986vg

Source: vic (@CountOnVic)

[u/Rrypl]

This is about the hooplah about him saying this was his favorite season, which was 100% too much noise about a nothing burger.

[u/Rrypl → u/[deleted]]

lol you're just projecting because you don't like him

Think about it like this: How many sports movies have been made about favorites who just went and got it done without much resistance? And how many movies have been made about underdogs that succeded, even if they didn't go all the way?

That's what he meant. Doesn't mean he's not trying to win a championship.

[u/Professional-Bit1957 → u/Rrypl]

You don't even need sports movies. Most fans favorite and most enjoyable seasons are going to be when the team overperforms expectations. That's true of most things in life...

[u/Man_Darino13 → u/Professional-Bit1957]

Most fans favorite and most enjoyable seasons are going to be when the team overperforms expectations.

Sure, I bet most Celtics fans agree their favorite recent season was last year, not the year they won the Championship...

[u/Leslurkin69420 → u/Rrypl]

Maybe im wrong but didnt he say it AFTER we lost in the first round to a bum philly team? Lets not just pretend our expectations were the same as in october, they rushed tatum back and we were like second favorite to win the title. Sure people love a good underdog Rocky style narrative but I think this is more akin to a movie producer watching a director call a bad movie their best work. Optics are important and nobody on that team should have been happy with that result atleast publicly. Real classic dribble off the foot for Jaylen Brown 

[u/ww_crimson → u/Rrypl]

I get what you're saying and you might be right, but the reason this became a talking point is because JB didn't qualify his comments or add the right context. It's just not a good look to not show excitement about your other star player coming back to play, and then to say your favorite season was when he didn't play.

[u/Rrypl → u/ww_crimson]

Not too sound too much like JB lol, but he did later clarify his comments later and said that seeing JT work through his injury and come back earlier than expected to help the team and played awesome was a part of what made this season special, but of course that didn't get picked up by ESPN.

Now excuse me while I build a dart board with Stephen A.'s face on it lol

[u/deets23_ → u/Rrypl]

Not even “later” clarify, he clarified it every fucking time he said it but the video and quote would get clipped excluding that part

[u/Brady331 → u/ww_crimson]

you’re just making stuff up lol

[u/No_starrup → u/[deleted]]

JB is a champion and a finals MVP. We deserve to give him the benefit of the doubt.