Jaylen Brown takes his medicine after rough night against his old team

Those lamb chops did not come out as well as hoped.

In the most highly anticipated game of this young regular season, Jaylen Brown finally took on Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics after thinly veiled barbs had been tossed by both sides since the summer. It did not go Brown or the Sixers’ way.

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Brown played just 25 minutes thanks to a combination of foul trouble and a waving of the white flag, finishing with 13 points on 4-of-9 shooting along with five rebounds, two assists and four turnovers. The Sixers trailed the majority of the night and lost 123-101. After Philly tied the game at 76 late in the third quarter, the Celtics outscored them 47-25 over the final 16 minutes of the game.

To pour salt in the wound, Paul George, the player the Sixers sent to Boston in return for Brown, dropped a game-high 36 points. After the game Brown was asked if he was relieved that this game is behind him now.

“I guess you could say that,” he said. “I’m a bit frustrated, honestly. I wanted to perform better for my team. Foul trouble kind of derailed me a little bit, but it happens. It’s unfortunate, but now we got to just move on to the next [game].”

Brown was ready to take his medicine. He said multiple times that the Celtics outplayed and out-executed the Sixers. On top of the foul trouble, he thought the Celtics did a good job game planning for him, pointing out that he got double teamed on every drive. His coach felt similarly.

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“It started really tough for him in the beginning by getting in foul trouble right from the start, and then he gets another early one in the second half, so he really had no chance to get going and [it] made it tough,” said Nick Nurse. “I think they did a pretty good job of swarming him and sending multiple defenders. I really think that, especially in the first half, we were generating really good shots out of their swarming defense.”

The Sixers once again struggled to make open jumpers, finishing the night making 29% of their 37 three-point attempts. Even as the team’s performance turned the nationally televised game into a dud, there were still plenty of eyeballs on Tatum and…

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Publish date : 2026-11-11 14:36:00

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