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"What's the biggest misconception about your relationship with Jaylen Brown?" Jayson Tatum: "There's just so many different narratives and so many different opinions and speculations. For me, I love that guy. What we were able to accomplish together in nine years, right, went to the conference finals five times, we went to the championship twice, we won a championship, we've shared All-Star games together. You can't talk about him without talking about me and vice versa, the success that we've had as just two young kids growing up in this league and really just pushing each other. Unfortunately, the business of basketball is always going to play a part. Nobody has ever played together forever, but it's not like a thing to be sad or upset about, it's a thing to celebrate what we were able to do."
The Boston Celtics are just over a month away from kicking off their new season with a very different roster than the one they had last year. The Celtics’ offseason was highlighted by the trade of Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers, which drew immense backlash from the fanbase. Now, Celtics star Jayson Tatum has spoken about his relationship with Brown during an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show. “There’s just so many different narratives and opinions… For me, I love that guy… You can’t talk about him without talking about me and vice versa,” he said, per Dan Patrick Show on X, formerly Twitter.
Mike Vorkunov: Myles Turner has been elected as a VP on the NBPA Executive Committee. He replaced Garrett Temple, who retired. This is now the full NBPA executive committee: • Fred VanVleet, President • Grant Williams, First Vice President • Mason Plumlee, Secretary-Treasurer • Karl-Anthony Towns, Vice President • Santi Aldama, Vice President • Jaylen Brown, Vice President • Trey Murphy III, Vice President • Myles Turner, Vice President • Gabe Vincent, Vice President
After announcing that he would retire after last season, Matt Cord plans to return for his 29th season as the Sixers' public address announcer, he announced on 93.3 WMMR on Wednesday morning. The reasons were quite simple. "They made a trade for Jaylen Brown on July 1," Cord said. "...And then on July 24, LeBron James signed with the Sixers." Cord said the subject of his signature call, Allen Iverson, was one of many people to reach out to him during the summer imploring him to return to the microphone.
Daniel Donabedian: I asked Brad Stevens how he weighed putting the Celtics’ interests first (by trading Jaylen Brown) against potentially making a rival better following the LeBron James signing: “Yeah, our focus is on us…And obviously, you know we will look forward to any challenges. And obviously there's a lot of good teams all around the league, but we have to do what's best, what we think is in the best interest of us, both in the short and long term. And so that was the decision, and we went through that in July. And today is about Mike, Paul, and Mitch, who's not here, and making sure that we are ready to put our best foot forward.”
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In a video posted on Jaylen Brown's social media, the new Philadelphia 76ers star is seen embracing a new sport ahead of his first season with the Sixers. Brown shared a video on his Instagram, where he is seen training and later participating in a boxing match during his trip to Lagos, Nigeria. The All-NBA guard also participated in a youth basketball camp in Nigeria sharing his NBA experience with young athletes.
ALI Right now, I’m working in Philadelphia [on Task], and the announcement of you coming from Boston to Philly — to be there while that happened — was pretty remarkable. On top of that, LeBron deciding to join you. Tell me about how you’re feeling about that transition. BROWN Obviously it was disappointing, to some degree, in terms of how things transpired at the end in Boston. But I’m also very excited for the opportunity. You know, I’m more focused on that excitement. The past is the past.
BROWN For me, growth and transformation are synonymous. So for me — I’m a Scorpio — I’ve had to transform many times. Once you recognize areas of your life where you need to grow, something has to die.
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BROWN I feel the same way about faith. I am completely faith-driven. I don’t need to see the staircase to take my next step. Faith is the basis of who Jaylen Brown is.
Let me ask, what were the priorities of your household growing up? BROWN It’s making me smile, ’cause it’s my mom. Like, she used to always say, “If you lie, you’ll cheat. If you cheat, you’ll steal. If you steal, you’ll kill.” It’s just engraved in my brain. Probably so many Black families grew up hearing that. So the worst thing you could do in our household was to lie. Like, if I got in trouble at school, it wouldn’t even matter the crime I committed, if I lied to my mother about it, that would be worse than the punishment of what I actually did.
There’s real resistance in the sports world to athletes that have any real interest beyond the sport itself, especially as Black men. BROWN Yep. I would say this, it might be a little controversial, but I think it’s rooted in fear, even within our own community. There’s pushback, or almost like a hesitancy, rooted in the trauma of slavery. At one point, to do anything outside of being a slave was problematic. Reading, writing, anything. It’s similar when you think of an athlete doing anything out of what you’re just supposed to be doing.
Once the Sixers completed the trade for Brown, they reached out to LeBron James’ agent Rich Paul. Their initial pitch was also a simple one: James can play on a roster capable of winning at a high level. Over the coming days and weeks, Maxey, Embiid and Brown all took turns recruiting James, according to league sources. The Sixers believed they had more than talent to appeal to one of the greatest players ever to play the game: They also had fit.
