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Jaylen Brown spent 10 seasons in Boston, where Brian Scalabrine, a former Celtic, has been a fixture on the team’s broadcasts. “Yeah, I mean, I guess it is what it is,” Brown said. “I’ve never had any issues with Scal. I love Scal. But I guess he’s doing what he has to do. I can understand why he feels the need to do that. But I have no interest of letting any false allegations follow me into my next chapter here in Philadelphia.”

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Gina Mizell: Jaylen Brown responds to Brian Scalabrine’s report (then walked-back report?) he demanded a trade out of Boston: “I have no interest in letting any false allegations (follow) me into my next chapter here in Philadelphia. I never demanded a trade. Never made a list of ultimatums.”

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NBACentral: Brian Scalabrine goes OFF on Jaylen Brown 😳 “Jaylen Brown wants to be the victim in all of this, and this is the way he’s doing it now. He’s using me, or his PR team, or whatever it is, to play the victim, and he’s not going to take responsibility for it. That’s fine…I just feel like he wants to say whatever he wants, and he doesn’t want to be held accountable, just like on his Twitch. He wants his legacy to remain intact, and he’s not going to take responsibility for the other stuff that he brings up. And this is just the beginning of it.”

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During Tuesday’s, October 27, broadcast, Scalabrine highlighted Tatum’s performance before joking about how he could use Brown’s turnover numbers to promote his former teammate. “Jayson Tatum, not to do more PR work for him, but 34 points, 8 assists, 16 to 20 at the line, zero turnovers. Zero turnovers. A big fat zero turnovers for number zero,” Scalabrine said. He then added: “Now, if I was doing PR work for Jayson Tatum, I would remind everybody who led the league in turnovers last year. But I’m not doing that. Be careful. It’s too easy. It actually is too easy. Hey. I’m not going down that road again.”

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“My understanding of this thing is that (Brown) demanded to be traded,” Scalabrine said. “Not through the media, but to the organization.” Hours later, Scalabrine walked back parts of that report during NBC Sports Boston’s pregame show “To be fair, after the 48 calls I’ve fended today and I listened, he technically didn’t demand any trade,” he said. “… I just summed it all up. I summed up the entire word salad and kept it simple. But I think that’s what kind of got me in trouble there.”

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He added: “I don’t know what the ultimatum was or the demands or whatever it was. So he technically did not demand to be traded. It was, ‘Do these things right here or else.’ And one of them might have been, like, ‘Give me the $140 million extension’ (for which Brown would have been eligible this offseason). I haven’t gotten to the bottom of all of that. I didn’t even know this was going to be a thing.”

Boston Herald

Fullcourtpass: Jaylen Brown gave the Celtics front office a list of demands and told them to complete them all or trade him, per @Scalabrine Brown was pushing for a trade to Milwaukee and even contacted his teammates about trying to team up there (Via @SiriusXMNBA, h/t @JaysEnjoyer_)

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Former NBA champion with the Boston Celtics, Brian Scalabrine has revealed that Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has spent time with Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson this summer while appearing on The Starting Lineup show on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Scalabrine then talked about the advice that Jordan shared with Mazzulla in his hangouts with the two NBA legends. "He [Mazzulla] told them at the partners' summit that he actually hung out with Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson this summer. And Jordan told Joe that 'the reason why I kept winning was I acted like I never won,'" Scalabrine said. "If you act as if you've never done anything, then you are hungry to continue to get it. And he goes, Jordan was like that. That was his message to Joe."

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NBA on NBC and Peacock: Six more talented names have joined the NBA on NBC and Peacock! Austin Rivers, Derek Fisher, Brian Scalabrine, Robbie Hummel, and Brad Daugherty join previously announced NBA veterans Jamal Crawford, Reggie Miller, and Grant Hill. Michael Grady joins Mike Tirico, Noah Eagle, and Terry Gannon as NBC Sports’ play-by-play voices for the NBA on NBC & Peacock.

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Bobby Manning: Thibs: “I’ve had the good fortune of working for both franchises.” Said it’s the people in the building that make it special: “the only hole in the franchise is Scalabrine.”

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When pressed by Brian Scalabrine about whether playing in Boston led to some of that disrespect nationally, Pierce strongly agreed. “I do,” Pierce declared. “I think playing for the Boston Celtics and we can go back to Bill Russell winning 11 championships. At no point did they say he was the greatest ever. It was always Wilt and Kareem. It’ something about people hating the city of Boston but all we do is win.”

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Sirius XM NBA: Kendrick Perkins calls out his former teammate and our very own Brian Scalabrine Here's the response from @Scalabrine ⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.x.com/ezPPlYGL00

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 Should the Bridges move scare the Celtics?  “ I mean you gotta prepare for that, “ said Scalabrine to Scoop B Radio.  “They didn’t give up much. When healthy and adding Bridges? They’re legitimate. “I think they’re a big time team, a big time defensive team since the OG Anunoby trade. His advanced analytics were off the charts. “Never ever will you ever hear an NBA team, player or anything say they’re scared of anybody but you have to keep an eye out on the Knicks. I think they’re legit.” On the Celtics side of basketball, Scalabrine says that Jaylen Brown’s dominance in the NBA Playoffs and the NBA Finals was a box office attraction. “You can say the next level is what he did in these playoffs,” said Scalabrine on Scoop B Radio.

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But, Cassell has yet to get any serious consideration to become a head coach.  Why?  “It’s only 30 jobs available,” said Scalabrine.  “I don’t know why. But he’s shown how successful he’s been throughout all these years. I mean he’s been a part of winning teams. He coaches superstar players, he took players from this level and brought them up. He took Tyrese Maxey under his wing, Jayson Tatum under his wing. All these guys he helped out? If I was an NBA team, I would hire Sam in a second.”

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