{"id":776370,"date":"2026-07-03T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:35:08","slug":"jaylen-brown-blasts-anonymous-sourcing-in-nba-media-they-dont-see-how-unethical-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776370\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown blasts anonymous sourcing in NBA media: &#8216;They don&#8217;t see how unethical that is&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5602\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaylen Brown;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jaylen Brown&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Brown<\/a>: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just stop with the anonymous sources. Chat, the anonymous sources is crazy. Him saying that executive and a scout, that said these things in an anonymous source, Stephen A. Smith saying an anonymous source, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3730\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kendrick Perkins;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kendrick Perkins&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Perkins<\/a> saying an anonymous source, or somebody texting, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrBlFc50uyY&amp;t=1393s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:what is with these people and these anonymous sources, bro? They don&#039;t see how unethical that is and just stating that on live TV. It&#039;s like somebody saying a rumor in front of millions of people and not even taking in the account that amount of damage that rumor could do.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;what is with these people and these anonymous sources, bro? They don&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">what is with these people and these anonymous sources, bro? They don&#8217;t see how unethical that is and just stating that on live TV. It&#8217;s like somebody saying a rumor in front of millions of people and not even taking in the account that amount of damage that rumor could do.<\/a> But they don&#8217;t even know if it&#8217;s true or not. It&#8217;s just a source.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrBlFc50uyY&amp;t=1393s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;}\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just stop with the anonymous sources. Chat, the anonymous sources is crazy. Him saying that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[368206,64,63,15610,29245,590,85,41711],"class_list":["post-776370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anonymous-sources","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-kendrick-perkins","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-stephen-a-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}