Jaylen Brown took his likelihood to take one ultimate swipe at Joel Embiid with the Boston Celtics’ season coming to an finish.
The Celtics star spoke to reporters on Saturday after his staff misplaced Recreation 7 of their first-round sequence in opposition to Embiid’s Philadelphia 76ers. Brown initially seemed like he was praising Embiid, calling him an inside presence that none of Boston’s large males may deal with. That was earlier than Brown blasted the previous MVP for “flopping round.”
“We didn’t actually have a solution for him. …He’s a giant physique,” Brown said. “He additionally was flopping round. He bought some additional calls, and stuff like that, and so they rewarded him for that. However that’s the league that we’re in. That’s all I’ve bought to say.”
Embiid completed with a game-high 34 factors on 12-of-26 taking pictures with 12 rebounds and 6 assists. He additionally bought to the free-throw line 11 occasions.
To his credit score, Embiid, who’s lower than a month removed from an emergency appendectomy, bought battered and bruised all through the competition and nonetheless managed to play till the ultimate buzzer. The 76ers star even took a scary blow to the knee after Brown shoved Tyrese Maxey into the massive man’s legs within the fourth quarter.
