The Boston Celtics recently swung and missed on the Giannis Antetokounmpo sweepstakes, as the Milwaukee Bucks instead dealt the star to the Miami Heat. The Celtics are now left in a potentially awkward situation with Jaylen Brown, who was publicly dangled in trade scenarios by the team throughout this offseason.
Brown has been embroiled in a feud with ESPN sports media personality Stephen A. Smith throughout this offseason, and that continued with another rant from the Celtics star on Wednesday, putting Smith on blast for taking issue with his assessment of 2025-26 as his “favorite season” in the league.
“The leader behind that was ESPN. ESPN is unethical.. Stephen A Smith is the head and face of that. The organization, the players, they were all in agreement. They all knew what I meant by that. Our team, it was basically salary dumped. We lost a lot of players. For us to emerge and still be in the same position…” said Brown, per CountonVic on X, formerly Twitter, via Noa Dalzell.
Smith’s insinuation was that Brown had enjoyed being in the spotlight as the number one option for the Celtics this past year in the injury absence of Jayson Tatum, with Boston defying expectations by winning 54 games and earning the number two seed in the Eastern Conference. Brown has since fired back at that criticism, with the two trading jabs at one another on their respective platforms since Boston’s playoff loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, in which the team blew a 3-1 lead for the first time in franchise history.
It remains to be seen whether the Celtics will look to trade Brown despite missing out on Antetokounmpo, or run it back with the same core duo of Brown and Tatum next year and hope for better results.
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