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Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is losing his patience with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.
On Sunday night, Brown took to his FCHWPO Twitch channel to address Smith directly over comments the $40 million talking head made about Brown’s post-Game 7 livestream. And it only took three words to get a feel for where Brown’s response was heading.
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“F*ck Stephen A,” Brown said during his Twitch stream Sunday night.
Smith spoke critically of Brown on ESPN’s “First Take” after Boston surrendered a 3-1 first-round series lead to the Philadelphia 76ers, primarily focusing on the 2024 NBA champion’s comments that the year, despite its finish, was his “favorite.”
“This is why, respectfully, a lot of people say, ‘f*ck Stephen A,’” Brown said. “Because this is the type of stuff he does, and then he doesn’t recognize it. But he’s creating a narrative saying that the reason why I’m saying that I had my favorite season is because, selfishly, I had a best-performing year — not the fact that we outproved expectations. Not the fact that everybody expected us to be nothing, and we had to fight, and we showed up, and we competed every single day, and had to fight for every victory.
“Not the joy of watching our teammates grow, or not the growth of watching guys who are unproven start to solidify themselves as well through leadership, through chemistry. He maybe doesn’t understand that because maybe he’s never had to fight for nothing in his life. Maybe anytime adversity has hit, he’s rolled over, or he’s gave in.”
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Smith immediately jumped on the airwaves of the worldwide leader in sports to vocalize his interpretation of Brown’s comments, portraying him as a selfish teammate. Brown averaged a career-high 28.7 points as Boston’s primary scorer this past season and finished sixth in the league’s Most Valuable Player voting, behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokić, Victor Wembanyama, Luka Dončić, and Cade Cunningham.
It was the first time Brown had ever received MVP votes, but, as the five-time All-Star reiterated, that wasn’t the motivating factor behind…
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