{"id":402105,"date":"2026-01-11T07:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402105\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:26:14","slug":"boston-celtics-star-jaylen-brown-criticizes-officials-after-loss-to-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402105\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown criticizes officials after loss to San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Celtics star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jaylen-brown\/883436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jaylen-brown\/883436\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Brown<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back while criticizing the officials during a profanity-laced postgame interview after Boston\u2019s 100-95 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI hope somebody can pull up the clips,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same s&#8212; every time we play a good team. It\u2019s like they refuse to make the calls and they call touch calls on the other end. That\u2019s just extremely frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He went on to say that he wants someone to watch the videos to see why he was upset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSomebody please pull it up,\u201d he said, standing in the locker room. \u201cEvery time we play a good team, the inconsistency is crazy. &#8230; I\u2019m irate at how they officiated the game today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Spurs went to the free throw line 20 times, making 14. Boston just went four, hitting three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He even went on to mention one official by his first name \u2014 Curtis Blair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCurtis and all those dudes were terrible tonight,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t care. They can fine me whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NBA regularly fines players who use profanity during interviews. Suns guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-green-555904\/1271706\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-green-555904\/1271706\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Green<\/a> was recently fined $25,000 for using profanity during a teammate\u2019s postgame interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> ___ <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ken Powtak, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Celtics star Jaylen Brown didn\u2019t hold back while criticizing the officials during a profanity-laced postgame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-402105","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\/402105","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=402105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}