{"id":626770,"date":"2026-05-06T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:53:08","slug":"celtics-jaylen-brown-fined-for-criticizing-playoff-officiating-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626770\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics\u2019 Jaylen Brown fined for criticizing playoff officiating \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has fined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/?s=celtics\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/?s=celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a> All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/?s=jaylen+brown\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/?s=jaylen+brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Brown<\/a> $50,000 for public criticism of game officials following Boston&#8217;s first-round exit from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was announced by NBA Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations James Jones on Tuesday night, two days after Brown said in a livestream he hosts that game officials \u201cclearly had an agenda\u201d to call fouls against him for &#8220;pushing off&#8221; when he drove toward the basket while handling the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoel Embiid dominated in Game 7 to lead the 76ers past the Celtics.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some referees that need to be investigated,\u201d Brown said on the livestream Sunday, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-76ers-game-7-highlights-score\/3943703\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-76ers-game-7-highlights-score\/3943703\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Celtics&#8217; 109-100 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7<\/a> of their first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery good basketball player does this. What are y\u2019all talking about? They clearly had an agenda,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was previously fined $35,000 in January after a two-minute postgame rant about the officiating following Boston&#8217;s loss to San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has fined Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown $50,000 for public criticism of game officials following Boston&#8217;s first-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[29175,355,99],"class_list":["post-626770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}