Category: Social/reacts

Bill Russell, Kendrick Perkins react to Jaylen Brown’s record night on Twitter

The Boston luminaries were rightfully impressed by the ascending superstar’s historic performance against the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday.

It’s getting pretty hard not to notice the Boston Celtics may have more than one superstar on their roster, and among Celtics alumni, several notable figures are already taking note of the rise of fifth year wing Jaylen Brown.

On Friday night, the Georgia native tied a career-high 42 points in a losing effort against their Atlantic Division rival, the Philadelphia 76ers. On Sunday, Brown followed up his virtuoso performance — unfruitful though it may have been in securing the win through no fault of his own, despite his postgame comments — with yet another game for the record books.

That last contest caught the eye of Celtic icon and fellow civil rights activist Bill Russell, who made a point of shouting out Brown on Twitter after the game.

The legendary Bostonian big man wrote “Great playing tonight
[Jaylen] keep it going,” to which Brown replied, “Yessir!” with a green heart emoji after it.

It also got the attention of champion Celtic center Kendrick Perkins, who tweeted “Can you say Most Improved Player and first time All-Star!!!” in response to the historic performance.

We certainly can — and it isn’t the first time Brown has been mentioned in that conversation.

If the Cal-Berkeley product keeps it up, All-NBA is absolutely in the question as well.

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Bill Russell, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum pay respects to Hank Aaron

Celtics past and present paid their respects to Hank Aaron’s passing on Friday.

Several Boston Celtics reacted to the passing of Major League Baseball great and civil rights icon Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron, who passed this Friday, Jan. 22 at the age of 86.

Aaron, widely regarded as mong the greatest to ever play the game, held the record for most home runs (755 total career) for three decades between 1974 and 2007, when the San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds broke his record. But unlike Bonds, when Aaron broke the record with the Atlanta Braves, he received hate mail and death threats for having the audacity to be the best at something as a Black man.

On hearing news of his passing, longtime friend and fellow sports legend and civil rights warrior Bill Russell posted his condolences to Twitter.

“Heartbroken to see another true friend & pioneer has passed away. [Henry Louis Aaron] was so much better than his reputation! His contributions were much more than just baseball. Jeannine & I send our đŸ™đŸŸ & deepest condolences to his wife & kids.”

Contemporary Celtic stars Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum also posted tweets regarding the baseball great’s loss.

Tatum retweeted a post by his hometown MLB club, the St. Louis Cardinals, commemorating Aaron’s life.

Brown made a point of noting the civil rights great’s work off the diamond as well, writing “RIP to the legend and civil rights activists Hank Aaron.”

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Bernie Sanders “joins” Jayson Tatum, Red Auerbach for photo – sort of

These Bernie memes are everywhere lately, it seems.

However you feel about the Vermont Senator and 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, if you’ve been online since Wednesday, it’s probably safe to assume you’ve seen the internet abuzz with a meme Sanders sitting in a chair at new President Joe Biden’s inauguration superimposed on … well, everything.

And now that has been extended to the Boston Celtics media sphere, with the Sanders meme getting a distinctly Celtic take. Older fans and fans with a bent for the team’s rich history know who the man immortalized in a bronze statue located outside of Quincy Market is, sitting on a bench while smoking an eternal bronze cigar.

That man, Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the architect of Celtic excellence from the 1950s onwards, has long been a popular photo opportunity for tourists and locals alike, including All-NBA Boston forward Jayson Tatum.

Someone in the team’s front office decided it would be a great moment to have Sanders “join” them, posting the result on the team’s Twitter account along with the words “New England Legends”.

Indeed.

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Laker legend Magic Johnson has Jaylen Brown among top-5 MVP candidates

The fifth-year forward is getting some serious respects out of even rival legends of the game this season.

Boston Celtics veteran forward Jaylen Brown may be worthy of the title, but at just 24 years old, the fact he’s being included by legends of the game in the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) race is an impressive feat indeed, even if perhaps a little premature.

While BetMGM and other oddsmakers have the Georgia native outside the top ten players for MVP in 2020-21 so far, iconic Los Angeles Lakers champion Earvin “Magic” Johnson has him right in the thick of it all as a top-five candidate. Currently in a three-way tie for the most field goals made (128) this season with Stephen Curry and Lebron James, the Celtic forward joins LeBron and Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, and Nikola Jokić as Magic’s leaders for the coveted league award this season in a recent tweet.

In a COVID-19-related absence of Jayson Tatum, Brown has been the stabilizing rock for Boston so far this season, a reliable source of high-efficiency offense almost every game game of the 2020-21 campaign to date.

Flashing new handles, body control, timing and a lethal ability to force his defenders to pick their poison, boosting his scoring by just a few more points per game could conceivably seen the Cal-Berkeley product ascent to such heights in everyone’s assessments by season’s end.

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Celtics fans react to Carsen Edwards’ account getting (we think) hacked

Boston Celtic reserve guard was probably hacked, but it didn’t stop Twitter from having fun with it.

Boston Celtics second-year reserve guard Carsen Edwards is probably wishing he had came up with a better password for his Twitter account right now.

We’re assuming that the Purdue product was hacked given his account posting some, shall we say … exceptionally graphic videos with some particularly niche angles to his Twitter feed, too graphic to even describe in detail on this site. Rest assured, they make Golden State Warrior Draymond Green’s social media mishap look quite tame in comparison. And while the usual go-to for unexpectedly adult conversations or media making their way to public social media feeds all the way back to Ray Allen has been that the player in question was hacked, it seems likely that’s the case here.

Even still, Twitter had itself a field day trying to make sense of the out-of-character posts for Edwards (and truth be told most people on the popular social media website) — a sampling of some of the better digs to be found on the topic embedded above and below.

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And we thought those other videos Jaylen Brown has been posting were embarrassing!

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Jaylen Brown posts video of Payton Pritchard doing running man challenge

Unfortunately for Fast PP, the internet is forever.

Boston Celtics rookie Payton Pritchard is learning early in his career that the internet is forever in some very adorable ways.

First, his old Twitter handle inadvertently became the nickname that stuck despite several robusts efforts to shift the narrative around the young Oregon product with references to the movie “Eight Mile”. Then, teammate Jaylen Brown dug up an old video of the first-year Celtic floor general doing the “running man challenge” in front of the refrigerator of presumably his parents’ house, given the West Linn, Oregon native was still in high school at the time.

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Chuckles aside, the budding NBAer had himself a career night while still in the first weeks of his inaugural campaign, going for 23 points and 8 assists in a 126 – 114 road drubbing of the Toronto Raptors.

One day we’ll look back at this game as a big breakout for the 22-year-old guard — and we’ll probably have forgotten about that goofy video by then.

Thankfully the internet will remember for us., Fast PP.

 

 

 

 

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Kendrick Perkins reacts to Jaylen Brown Player of the Week snub

The former Celtic was incredulous Brown didn’t win East Player of the Week honors.

It’s hard to be better than Boston Celtics star forward Jaylen Brown was this last week, so it makes sense that former Celtic champion center Kendrick Perkins was confused that the Georgia native wasn’t named East Player of the Week in  recent Twitter post.

That honor instead fell to Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris, who averaged an admittedly-impressive 21.5 points, 9.5 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 2.3 steals per game over that stretch, shooting a sizzling 59.1% overall and 55.9%. However, Brown put up 27.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals per game while shooting 66.3% overall and 50% from 3 in the same week.

Included in that span were two more games for the Cal-Berkeley product than the 76ers played, including a career-high 42-point night vs. the Memphis Grizzlies.

Harris did indeed have an impressive week, but we’re with Perk when he said, “Jaylen Brown not getting Eastern Conference Player of the week is somewhat disturbing to me!”

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NBA media reacts to Celtic star Jaylen Brown’s career night vs Memphis

The NBA media sphere reacted on Twitter to Jaylen Brown’s career-high 42-point scoring clinic against the Grizzlies Wednesday night.

Boston Celtics star forward Jaylen Brown put on a scoring clinic against the Memphis Grizzlies Wednesday night, scoring a career-high 42 points on an absolutely sizzling 15-of-21 shooting, including hitting 7-of-10 from beyond the arc.

The Georgia native also connected on 5 of his 6 trips to the free throw line for his career night against the Grizzlies, pulling down 5 rebounds to go with 4 assists and a steal, all accomplished in the first three quarters against an overmatched Memphis squad at the Garden. Though head coach Brad Stevens sat the Cal-Berkeley product for the entire fourth quarter out of an abundance of caution, it was still one of the more dominant performances by a Celtic in recent history.

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NBA writers and analysts alike took to Twitter to share their incredulity at the show Brown put together, united in their awe of the five-season veteran’s outstanding performance.

Former Celtic champion Kendrick Perkins reminded us he had Brown for Most Improved Player…

While the Athletic’s Jared Weiss helped us contextualize just how big of a night it was for the Celtics’ rising star.

“Celtics Beat” podcast host Adam Kauffman noted the lunacy of those doubting Brown’s contract extension in retrospect…

And The Step Back’s Jackson Frank noted just how much he has grown as a player season to season.

Perennial statistical historians State Muse shared the rarified air Brown now finds himself in…

While renowned Boston sportswriter Steve Bulpett noted he may have under-estimated the Marietta native’s ceiling (before one of his baskets was credited properly to teammate Jayson Tatum).

And team reporter Taylor Snow hinted a certain someone better get an All-Star nod this year.

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Bill Russell reacts to death of teammate, friend K.C. Jones on Twitter

Russell posted a tribute his fallen friend n Christmas Day.

The loss of legendary Boston Celtics point guard and head coach K.C. Jones leaves not only the fans and wider Celtic community with an immeasurable loss fresh on the heel of the death of Tommy Heinsohn, but the entire NBA community and society as whole as well — but few as much as Boston icon Bill Russell.

The two were teammates not just for the unprecedented string of titles they shared across eight of Jones’ nine seasons in the Association as a player, but even before that when the pair were both playing for the University of San Francisco Dons, where they would win back-to-back NCAA titles together.

They would shatter the color barrier together as well — first as players, two-fifths of the first all-Black starting five in NBA history on this very date in 1963, then later as coaches, two of the first four Black head coaches to win a title in the league.

And through the years and their respective orbits bringing them both away from, then back to the Celtics over the course of their careers and lives, they always called one another friend.

For Russell, this one has to hurt.

The Celtic center luminary posted a tribute to his fallen comrade on Twitter Christmas Day, saying,

“I just received a call letting me know my x-roommate/teammate & most of all friend the great KC Jones passed this morning. Prayers to his family. We have been friends for almost 60yrs, this our last photo together.”

“Friends for life,” he closed.

For these two, at least that long — our condolences, Mr. Russell.

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Jayson Tatum’s friends, teammate react to news he’s now 6-foot-10

A trio of friends who happen to be elite NBA wings shared some jokes about the Duke product’s height.

Boston Celtics All-NBA forward Jayson Tatum is making waves for reportedly growing to 6-foot-10 from his official NBA measurements of 6-foot-8 — including some good.natured ribbing from friends and teammates.

Given this isn’t exactly new news — Stevens made this claim as far back as August, when the Celtics were still gearing up for a deep postseason run in the Disney-hosted restart — it isn’t entirely clear why it caught fire on the Celtic coach’s recent reiteration of that claim. But it didn’t stop friend and Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell from asking Tatum “Bruh why are we lying like this?” in response to a Bleacher Report tweet repeating Stevens’ claim.

In a nod to Weird Celtics Twitter making a meme over the buzz the Duke product got as a rookie that’s praised Tatum’s skills while perpetually casting him as “only 19 years old”, the St. Louis native replied “Bro this my 4th year being “19” I’m still growing.”

Mutual friend and teammate Jaylen Brown had to weigh in on the exchange as well, correcting us all to let us know “My bro really 6’11.”

However old — or tall — Tatum really is, it’s great to see the duo having fun online ahead of an especially short and difficult offseason.

And perhaps even getting in a little future recruiting while their at it.

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