{"id":533464,"date":"2026-03-13T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533464\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:08:08","slug":"jaylen-brown-thinks-the-nba-agrees-with-his-assessment-of-ejecton-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533464\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown Thinks the NBA Agrees With His Assessment of Ejecton vs. Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot has been made of Jaylen Brown\u2019s ejection<\/a> vs. the San Antonio Spurs Tuesday night, with different takes<\/a> fueling debate shows, podcasts, and social media wars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s take, aside from a post on X <\/a>in the immediate aftermath of the incident, hadn\u2019t been given until after Boston\u2019s loss against Oklahoma City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After originally saying he didn\u2019t have a comment on it, Brown said, \u201cobviously I was pissed that I didn’t get to compete in that game. That was another big time matchup that I had circled on my calendar. Obviously, playing against the Spurs, it was a good team, and I came out to a great start. I felt great. I felt like I was ready to have a big-time performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was, indeed, on his way to one. Stylistically, it was one of the best games<\/a> of his life. He was in complete control of the game when he had the ball, and he already had seven assists when he got tossed just before halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown admits he should have controlled his emotions better, but he doesn\u2019t think the ejection was warranted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn certain spots, maybe I could have been a little bit better,\u201d he told reporters in Oklahoma City. \u201cBut, you\u2019re passionate, it’s a big game, you want to see emotion, you want to see your star players showing that emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think I deserved to get tossed. And I think the NBA agreed because I didn’t get fined or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NBA\u2019s lack of a fine does come off as a sort of endorsement of Brown\u2019s line of thinking. If Brown was in the wrong, he might have faced further punishment, especially considering his prior criticism of the officiating. He was fined $35,000 for a rant after their loss to San Antonio at home earlier this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The main issue for all the Celtics who commented wasn\u2019t just that Brown got thrown out, it\u2019s that Crew Chief Tyler Ford wasn\u2019t the one to eject Brown, even though he was the one being directly confronted by Brown. On video, it seemed like Ford was telling Brown to calm down and retreat. Umpire Suyash Mehta came in and gave Brown his second technical, despite not being directly confronted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That dynamic ultimately led to a classic Joe Mazzulla comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just give a ton of credit to my high school principal. He had the balls to throw a student out,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cHe didn’t leave it to the hall monitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mehta is clearly the hall monitor in that example.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As much as Mazzulla is trying to protect his player, he\u2019s also making a point that Ford had the situation under control and didn\u2019t need any help. Something he said more directly on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the head official, Tyler Ford, I thought he handled it very well,\u201d Mazzulla said on his weekly radio appearance<\/a>. \u201cAnd I think that’s part of the relationship between players and officials as they continue to grow. And Tyler has been around a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown has had a lot to say about the officials all season long, but as far as this incident is concerned, Brown is over it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is what it is,\u201d He said. \u201cPeople make mistakes, But I’m just looking forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot has been made of Jaylen Brown\u2019s ejection vs. the San Antonio Spurs Tuesday night, with different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-533464","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\/533464","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=533464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}