Jaylen Brown had to answer to Danny Ainge for saying he would win five rings

Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown discloses the discussion he had with president Danny Ainge about his comments about winning five rings.

Remember that time, in the 2018-19 season, that Boston Celtics up-and-coming wing Jaylen Brown predicted that he would have five rings by the time he was 28-years-old?

Many people may but Brown certainly does, as does Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks, who was the one who asked Brown the question on her first season of “Take It There With Taylor Rooks.”

Noting the media’s tendency to utilize “clickbait,” a term denoting content that’s more sensational than accurate, Brown explains his disdain with how his comments were portrayed.

“You know, I had to answer to like Danny Ainge? Like he came to me like, ‘You’re being disrespectful!’”

“But I didn’t mean any disrespect ‘cause I know how hard it is to win even one. I wasn’t guaranteeing anything. I wasn’t trying to be arrogant. I wasn’t saying that this is going to happen. I just like, if I wanted things to go a certain way, that’s the way I wanted them to go.”

If the fact that Ainge felt the need to address the comments wasn’t already bad enough, that the former Celtics guard considered the comments disrespectful had to be tough for the young wing. A two-time champion with the Celtics himself — having been teammates with three-time champion Larry Bird when he was in Boston — Ainge does know what it takes to win a championship. Considering Brown’s comments to Rooks and him asking if last season’s Celtics were better than Boston’s championship team in 1986, Ainge likely though that the UCal product was very arrogant indeed.

Brown has at least acquitted himself of the criticism about whether he deserved his sizable contract extension, having a career season and showing exciting developments in his game. The Celtics, playing well and sitting third in the East (with the fifth-best record in the league), are also in position to contend for a conference championship — even if they aren’t favorites for title contention.

Despite the brouhaha over his comments, both Brown and Boston have a bright future ahead.