{"id":229279,"date":"2026-04-13T03:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:59:33","slug":"jaylen-browns-blunt-reaction-after-celtics-backups-stun-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229279\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown’s Blunt Reaction After Celtics Backups Stun Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jaylen Brown had an unfiltered reaction after the Boston Celtics reserves scored a stunning win over Orlando.<\/p>\n

Four words. That was all Jaylen Brown needed.<\/p>\n

After the Boston Celtics<\/a> backup unit stunned the fully healthy Orlando Magic 113-108 on Sunday \u2014 the final day of the regular season \u2014 Brown, sidelined with left Achilles tendinitis, posted four words on X (formerly Twitter): \u201cI love this team.\u201d The tweet drew 10,000 likes in short order. Hard to argue with him.<\/p>\n

Boston was without Brown, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Payton Pritchard and Neemias Queta, five of its top rotation players, yet rallied from an 11-point third-quarter deficit to hand a mostly healthy Magic squad a loss that will sting well into the postseason, according to Justin Leger and Darren Hartwell of NBC Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baylor Scheierman led the way with a career-high 30 points on six 3-pointers, Ron Harper Jr. added a career-best 27, and Luka Garza contributed 27 points and 12 rebounds off the bench. It was exactly the kind of depth performance Brown has been cultivating from his team all season.<\/p>\n

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What the Loss Means for Orlando, What It Says About Boston<\/p>\n

The Magic entered Sunday\u2019s finale with a clear incentive: A win would have secured a home play-in game. Instead, they fell to a Celtics team that had almost no one available and nothing to play for. It was the kind of loss that tends to follow a team into the postseason.<\/p>\n

Scheierman and Harper combined for 24 of Boston\u2019s 42 third-quarter points while the Magic\u2019s offense went cold, with the Celtics shooting 64% in that period, as Matt Hanifan reported for SI.com<\/a>. Orlando\u2019s most consistent player, Desmond Bane, played only 17 minutes despite being healthy, a decision by head coach Jamahl Mosley that will surely be questioned. The loss dropped the Magic to the No. 8 seed, sending them to Philadelphia to face the 76ers<\/a> in the play-in round, per The Magic Insider.<\/p>\n

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Brown\u2019s Remarkable Season Carrying a Depleted Celtics Roster<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s win was a fitting coda to one of the most quietly extraordinary leadership seasons in recent Celtics history, a reminder of just how much Brown has carried this team.<\/p>\n

When Tatum ruptured his Achilles in the 2025 playoffs, the expectation was that the 2025-26 campaign would be a gap year in Boston. The Celtics opened the season widely projected to win around 41 games<\/a>. They ended the regular season with 56.<\/p>\n

Brown had other ideas, posting career highs of 28.8 points, 7.0 rebounds and 5.2 assists across 70 starts, as Nirav Barman wrote for SB Nation<\/a>. He did it without Tatum for the first 62 games, and without Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, both traded in offseason \u201csecond apron\u201d salary-dump moves, as well as Al Horford, who departed as a free agent, per ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brown also emerged as a team mentor, streaming film sessions on Twitch where he coached up younger players like Jordan Walsh directly, according to SB Nation.<\/p>\n

Celtics owner Bill Chisholm noticed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always been incredible \u2026 The leadership stuff has really been impressive,\u201d Chisholm told The Boston Globe, as quoted by SB Nation. \u201cWhen we\u2019re struggling in a game, you can just see it. He\u2019s like, \u2018OK, this is enough.\u2019 And he puts his head down and gets a really high-quality shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four words Sunday. There will be plenty more to say once the playoffs begin.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tJonathan Vankin<\/a> JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist who covers MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, boxing, golf, and Olympic sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Newspaper and Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering the Olympics, pro baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

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