{"id":401903,"date":"2026-01-11T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:56:05","slug":"celtics-jaylen-brown-sounds-off-on-officiating-after-loss-to-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401903\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics’ Jaylen Brown sounds off on officiating after loss to Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say Jaylen Brown<\/a> wasn’t happy with the officiating on Saturday is an understatement.<\/p>\n

The Boston Celtics<\/a> wing took to the media following his team’s 100-95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs to discuss the referee’s impact on the contest. <\/p>\n

“It’s the same sh– every time we play a good team, it’s like they refuse to make a call,” Brown said, per Clutch Points’ Daniel Donabedian<\/a>. “… And that’s just extremely frustrating. … Every time we play a good team, the inconsistency is crazy. <\/p>\n

“I’ll take the (expletive) fine. Curtis, all them dudes were terrible tonight. I don’t care, they can fine me whatever they want. It’s crazy, every time we play a good team it’s the same bulls—.”<\/p>\n

The Spurs were awarded 20 free throws on Saturday, while the Celtics only got to the line four times. Brown didn’t get a single free-throw attempt, but still managed to post 27 points in the loss. <\/p>\n

“I’m irate at how they officiated the game today,” Brown said. “If we can’t get to the free-throw line and teams are allowed to be physical and bump us off our spots, it’s hard to win games like that. … Inconsistency is (expletive) crazy. Give me the fine.”<\/p>\n

Brown typically averages the ninth-most free throws in the NBA, averaging 7.4 per contest entering Saturday. However, the Celtics as a whole do not get to the line much; they average the fewest free throws attempted per game in the entire league with 18.9.<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of calls, the Celtics still sit second in the East with a 24-14 record. They return to action on Monday against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To say Jaylen Brown wasn’t happy with the officiating on Saturday is an understatement. The Boston Celtics wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-401903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}