At shootaround, guard Labaron Philon Jr, performing typical rookie duties, sang \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to Brown in an off-key rendition Brown joked was \u201cabsolutely terrible.\u201d <\/p>\n
Then after the Sixers\u2019 127-116 victory over the Bucks<\/a>, he answered questions about one of the league\u2019s most intriguing bits of reality-show style drama \u2014 the state of his relationship with former Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum. Since the Celtics traded Brown to the Sixers, the two have had a beef \u2014 well, actually Brown prefers a different term. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no beef,\u201d Brown said. \u201cBut it might be a little lamb chops and some gravy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb READ MORE: Sixers take lessons for life without LeBron James in win over Bucks<\/a><\/p>\n Brown reiterated that phrase multiple times in response to former championship tandem\u2019s latest back and forth, which started when Tatum said the trade took him by surprise. Brown responded to an Instagram clip of Tatum\u2019s comments with a \u201ccap\u201d emoji<\/a>, internet slang for saying someone is lying. Tatum then said there was no beef<\/a> and he hoped he and Brown could talk things over. Brown didn\u2019t sound as if he was looking forward to that.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t see the full thing, but I saw that he said there\u2019s no beef and I think he\u2019s right,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThere\u2019s no beef. Jayson comes from a wonderful family. We\u2019ve accomplished some great things. He\u2019s a hell of a basketball player. <\/p>\n \u201cHe got a great [public relations] PR team. There\u2019s no beef, but it might be a little lamb chops and some gravy. You know what I mean? He should stay ready at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown reiterated the \u201clamb chops\u201d phrase three different times, as if he knew that was how he was going to respond to this. <\/p>\n When asked if he and Tatum might talk soon, Brown said: \u201cWe both got so much stuff in front of us. So, at the end of the day, we both \u2014 he\u2019s got to do what he\u2019s got to do for his team. I got to do what I do for my team. Jayson\u2019s a great guy. Like I said, great family, hell of a basketball player, hell of a PR team. There\u2019s no beef, but it be a little lamb chop.\u201d<\/p>\n Between the morning serenade of \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d and setting social media ablaze with his comments, Brown had a game to play. Without him, the Sixers likely don\u2019t improve to 3-0 with LeBron James sitting out<\/a> to manage sciatica on the front end of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n Brown had 27 points on 9-for-19 shooting, five assists and was tied for the team high in plus-minus at plus-24. That latter stat was one of great debates with Brown this offseason after his trade from the Celtics \u2014 that he wasn\u2019t as important of a player as it might have seemed because of his on-court, off-court splits. Through three games, he is the team\u2019s leader at plus-19.3 per game.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not for sure on this, but for me it seems like when he gets going offensively, it also kind of translates to the other end,\u201d coach Nick Nurse<\/a> said. \u201cWhere he\u2019s going and knocking the ball away, playing really sticky defense and physical defense.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown said he was still trying to find his way with this Sixers team, but he has looked comfortable in important moments. He had six straight important points in the fourth quarter of the 29-point comeback win over the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> on Thursday. Then on Saturday, he nailed a three to put the Sixers up 120-114 with 1 minute, 39 seconds to play before setting up a dagger three from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on the next possession to seal the win. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not a guy who cares what other people think about him,\u201d guard Tyrese Maxey<\/a> said. \u201cI think his biggest thing is he wants to win. He wants to show he\u2019s a winner, which he is. He\u2019s a competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n Which is perhaps why this offseason has stung the 2024 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. A competitor would wonder why the Celtics traded him and not Tatum, if the team was boxed into trading a large contract, as it said. And even if he tried to hold in his true thoughts about his former teammate, the competitive juices might cause him to reveal them, even in something like a cap emoji, or an analogy about beef and lamb chops.<\/p>\n \u201cNo beef. It should never, ever be that. It\u2019s just basketball,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWe\u2019re both blessed. It might be a little lamb chop. We\u2019ll be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n In related news, the Celtics visit Philadelphia on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n Watch the latest episode<\/p>\n Beat reporters Gina Mizell and Chris Hine break down their most intriguing quotes from LeBron James and Tyrese Maxey during the preseason, along with what they most hope to learn about this revamped roster during the first month of the season. Watch here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Watch the full interview below and subscribe to the Sixers Extra podcast on Spotify<\/a> or Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Saturday was Jaylen Brown\u2019s 30th birthday, and what a day it was for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[507472,64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-940431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-76ers-jaylen-brown-jayson-tatum-bucks-tyrese-maxey-boston-celtics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940431","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=940431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792935372_295_circle_outline_footer_light_theme.png\"\/)
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