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WATCH: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson presented Celtics’ Jaylen Brown with ESPY award

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson presented Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown with an ESPY

The Baltimore Ravens have seen quarterback Lamar Jackson become one of the best at his position since he was drafted in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft. He has won countless awards and honors and still has plenty of time left to add to his trophy cabinet.

Jackson was presented with a 2024 ESPY Award for the “best play” of the year on his self-catch in the AFC Championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs. However, he also presented an ESPY, as he and Halle Bailey called Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown to the stage to accept his award for “best championship performance.”

Brown and the Celtics won the 2024 NBA Finals, defeating the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Brown won the Finals MV award and took an incredible route to lead Boston to their first title since 2008.

What is going on with star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown?

Are we right about whatever irks Brown?

What is going on with star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown? Between the cryptic tweets that seem to be related with his being passed over for the US National Team in the 2024 Paris Olympics and appearing to implicate Nike, something has clearly put a bee in the proverbial bonnet of the Georgia native in recent days.

Are we right about whatever irks Brown? Or could it be something deeper — or entirely not what we think it is? The hosts of the CLNS Media “Still Poddable” podcast, Brian Robb, Sam Packard, and Jay King, recently broke down the latest drama surrounding Brown before diving into all your questions about the Celtics in a jam-packed mailbag episode.

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say.

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Why Team USA replacing Kawhi Leonard with Derrick White over Jaylen Brown makes sense

While Brown is the better player, White fills a role better for Team USA, because he is willing to do the dirty work.

The US National Team electing to bring on Boston Celtics point guard Derrick White to replace injured Los Angeles Clippers veteran forward Kawhi Leonard instead of star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown was the right call to some NBA analysts. 

Among them, we can count Charles Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who recently sat down with the hosts of the CLNS Media “The Big Three NBA” podcast, A. Sherrod Blakely, Gary Washburn, and Kwani Lunis, to talk over the decision by the US Olympic Team to select White with their final roster spot over Brown. While Jaylen Brown is the better player, Pompey argues that Derrick White fills a role better for Team USA, because he is willing to do the dirty work.

Check out the argument yourself in the clip embedded below.

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Did the US National Team snub star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown?

If they did, what was the reason?

Did the US National Team snub star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown for the 2024 Paris Olympics? If they did, what was the reason? Fit? Politics? Endorsement affiliation? Some combination of all of the above?

The Garden Report goes live to discuss Jaylen Brown displaying displeasure over being left off the Team USA roster. Is he pissed at Nike? Are his tweets disrespectful to Derrick White? CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning and John Zannis sat down with the Boston Dot Com’s Khari Thompson to discuss Brown and how Team USA looked in their exhibition vs. Canada.

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say.

If you enjoy this pod, check out the “How Bout Them Celtics,” “First to the Floor,” “Celtics Lab,” and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.

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Was star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown snubbed by Team USA?

Was this a slight for something Brown has said or done since the Georgia native last played for the U.S. National Team?

Was star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown snubbed by Team USA for the 2024 Paris Olympics? Despite winning the league’s Finals Most Valuable Player award as he helped the Celtics to win the 2024 NBA Championship, there was no invite waiting for Brown despite having previously played for Team USA in less prestigious competition.

Was this a slight for something Brown has said or done since the Georgia native last played for the U.S. National Team? Or was this more of an issue of fit given the other players who are suiting up for Team USA, making the need for a player like Brown less important? 

The hosts of the CLNS Media “The Big Three NBA” podcast, A. Sherrod Blakely, Gary Washburn, and Kwani Lunis, took a closer look on a recent episode of their show. Check it out below!

If you enjoy this pod, check out the “How Bout Them Celtics,” “First to the Floor,” “Celtics Lab,” and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.

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Jayson Tatum on when he and Jaylen Brown realized they needed each other to win it all

Whether they get along, and if they truly like each other have become the new “split them up, they can’t win together” discourse.

If there is a partnership in today’s NBA that is more scrutinized than that of star Boston Celtics forwards Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, we can’t think of it. Whether they get along, and if they truly like each other have become the new “split them up, they can’t win together” discourse fans of the team had to endure before the Jays finally won Banner 18 this past June.

And Tatum opened up a bit about that dynamic, sharing the first thing he said to Brown after they won the title on a recent episode of the Wave Sports and Entertainment Original “7 PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony and The Kid Mero” podcast. “The crazy thing is, I couldn’t even get to (Jaylen Brown) until we got to the podium,” he explained.

Relating the “pandemonium” surrounding him as various members of his family rushed the court, Tatum said. “It was crazy. I’m doing an interview (next), so I didn’t even get to JB until, honestly, he got the finals MVP trophy. He was like, ‘Yo, I couldn’t have done this without JT,’ and that’s when we shook hands, and I was like, ‘I love you bro’.”

“That was the first time I really got to talk to him after the buzzer,” said the Duke alum. “That was 10-15 minutes later because there was so much going on. I’m happy that we did it. We look at it as, we get to the Conference Finals five out of seven years, that’s sustained success.”

“A lot of people saying we don’t have enough, but we knew our time was coming and that any day, or any year, that it was going to fall into place,” offered Tatum. “But it was tough.”

‘Over time we had to learn how to coexist with each other, but that’s with anybody,” he said. “We had to learn that we needed each other, and we got to a perfect point in my career where he had gotten his money, I had got mine.”

“We had All-Star and All NBA selections. Like we weren’t tripping off that and just the only thing we hadn’t done was win a championship.”

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Jaylen Brown and Kysre Gondrezick appear to confirm dating rumors with ESPYs red carpet walk

The NBA star and the former WNBA guard appear to be dating.

It was a few weeks ago that Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown was on a Duck Boat, celebrating the team’s NBA title in the Beantown championship parade … and people noticed former Chicago Sky guard Kysre Gondrezick was with him.

Could it be romance? Just friends? That’s all we had.

That is, until Thursday, when the pair walked the red carpet at the 2024 ESPYs, turning heads. Although we don’t have officially official confirmation, it would seem that this would prove they’re dating.

Check out some of the photos from their walk together and we’ll wait to see if either of them fully confirm it:

Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports

Jul 11, 2024; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown and Kysre Gondrezick arrive on the red carpet before the 2024 ESPYS at Dolby Theatre. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports 

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Why is Boston’s Jaylen Brown not on the US Olympic team?

Is it team building? Or is it political?

Fans of the Boston Celtics who saw that it would be Derrick White replacing Kawhi Leonard for the US National Team in the 2024 Paris Olympics, by and large, got why the folks running Team USA might pick the Colorado native as the Los Angeles Clippers star’s injury replacement.

But more than a few fans (and perhaps the man himself as well, based on some cryptic social media posts made around when White’s elevation broke) began to wonder why it was that even after an injury, the 2024 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Jaylen Brown remained on the outside of Team USA’s Olympic roster.

The hosts of the CLNS Media “The Big Three NBA” podcast, A. Sherrod Blakely, Gary Washburn, and Kwani Lunis, took a closer look on a recent episode. Check it out below!

If you enjoy this pod, check out the “How Bout Them Celtics,” “First to the Floor,” “Celtics Lab,” and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.

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Team USA chose Derrick White to replace Kawhi Leonard and Jaylen Brown seems salty about it

Jaylen Brown deserves a spot here

By all accounts, Jaylen Brown has had a pretty great summer so far. I don’t think there’s any debating that.

He won his first NBA championship with the Celtics and brought home the Finals MVP trophy. He also had an absolute blast at the championship parade. So much fun, in fact, that he actually lost a ring. And then some fans actually gave it back to him instead of holding it and pawning it or something.

RELATED: The Celtics actually might be a dynasty in the making

As good as his summer is going, though, he seems pretty salty right now. In a few weeks, Team USA’s basketball team will take off for the Olympics in France and, somehow, Brown won’t be there despite proving himself as one of the best players in the NBA.

He didn’t make the initial roster. It’s hard to argue he should’ve considering the number of future Hall of Famers are on the team. But then Kawhi Leonard dropped out, according to a statement from the team.

So, naturally, you’d think that Brown would be a natural fit to slide in and replace Leonard. They’re both wing players. They’re both excellent defenders. They both can score when needed. Brown is a much better athlete at this point, too.

But NOPE. Still, no Jaylen Brown. Instead, Team USA picked his Celtics’ teammate Derrick White over him.

Brown tweeted this shortly after the selection was reported and announced.

He doesn’t seem too pleased with being overlooked for this team again. It’s hard to blame him — he’s proven himself as one of the best players in the NBA.

Of course, part of him is probably happy for his teammate. And there were legitimate reasons to go with White here. But, man. But as an All-Star and a Finals MVP, that must be a tough pill to swallow.

Celtics camp is going to be pretty interesting this summer.

‘There was a lot of curse words’: Jaylen Brown recalls motivational speech from Kevin Garnett

The Big Ticket had some words for a young Juice, and they helped.

Boston Celtics champion big man Kevin Garnett keeps tabs on the team he won a title with, and when he saw a major part of the Celtics’ future in a slump as a rookie, he made a call to motivate a younger Jaylen Brown.

Speaking to NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg in a recent interview, the freshly-minted first-time All-Star related how KG left a message about Brown’s body language on the bench looked, and what he ought to do about it. “I can’t say all the words because there was a lot of curse words in it,” shared the Cal-Berkeley product. “Like, ‘Pick your (expletive) head up, right now.'”

It evidently helped motivate Brown, who took it to heart, along with the respect he continues to have for the Big Ticket’s game.

Watch the clip embedded above to hear Brown’s account of that message yourself — we can almost hear KG shouting from here.

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