{"id":652989,"date":"2026-05-07T04:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:20:42","slug":"jaylen-brown-denies-tension-hopes-to-play-another-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652989\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown denies tension, hopes to play another 10 years\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaylen Brown reiterated his commitment to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, denying speculation that he&#8217;s frustrated with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Boston,&#8221; Brown said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danield1214\/status\/2052178972633383127\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitch livestream<\/a>. &#8220;And if it was up to me, I could play in Boston for the next 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s future became a hot topic after Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sqikDxgOBFo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his podcast<\/a> that Brown has frustration that &#8220;lies deeply within the (Celtics) organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just been a lot of stuff that I&#8217;ve been hearing, going on with the Boston organization with JB,&#8221; McGrady added.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens was asked about it earlier Wednesday. He said he had a &#8220;positive&#8221; conversation with Brown on Monday after Boston&#8217;s Game 7 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2026\/05\/06\/celtics-star-jaylen-brown-made-it-clear-happy-in-boston\/89970546007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Donabedian of Celtics Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody around here loves JB,&#8221; Stevens added.<\/p>\n<p>Brown also spoke highly of his rapport with Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate that our president of basketball operations even had to respond to this,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;Me and Brad have a great relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a former NBA Finals MVP, averaged a career-high 28.7 points in 71 appearances this season. The five-time All-Star also had 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists in his 10th season with the Celtics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown reiterated his commitment to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, denying speculation that he&#8217;s frustrated with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-652989","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\/652989","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=652989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}