After being eliminated by the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 in the first round of the playoffs, Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown called out Joel Embiid for flopping.
Taking to his Twitch stream, Brown shared his thoughts on Embiid’s “tactics.”
”I mean, this is my personal opinion on basketball. Some of y’all might disagree, you know what I mean? But argue with your grandma. Flopping has ruined our game,” Brown said. “Joel Embiid is a great player, one of the best bigs in f—ing basketball history, flops. He knows it. This ain’t breaking news.”
Brown then called off the refs for calling the fouls.
“Why are you targeting me? They clearly had an agenda,” he said. “Maybe because I spoke, I was critical of the refs in the regular season. So you know how they responded? ‘We’re gonna call every, you’re gonna lead the playoffs in offensive fouls.’ That was the response from the officiating crew. “
”You could clearly tell. I’ve actually spoken to some refs, and they said it was an agenda going into each game. ‘Any time Jaylen brings his arm up, just from reputation, just call it.’ Paul George does the same thing. Jalen Brunson does the same thing. I can go down the list,” Brown continued.
“It’s a basketball play, whether y’all believe it or not. Everybody does that when you drive, especially if you’ve got bodies on you. But Philly took advantage of it, and they took advantage of the officiating,” Brown continued. “It cost us to some degree. I’ve been doing it all regular season, not a problem. Now, all of a sudden, it’s an offensive foul every time. Keep that same energy with everybody else. That’s all I’ve gotta say.”
This isn’t Brown’s first time being critical of players for foulbaiting. In March, he took aim at Shai Gilgeous-Alexander after a loss 104-102 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder
“I don’t know, maybe it all works in the end, but I just don’t foul bait,” Brown said. “I’m not looking to flop or anything like that, but it’s almost like you got to. It’s almost like, because there’s a couple of plays in the fourth quarter where I felt like I drove strong, went up strong, and I didn’t get the benefit of the doubt. But maybe if I would have flopped, maybe I would have been able to sell that call. And those decide games.”
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