By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Jaylen Brown’s gaffe: telling the truth about his ‘favorite season’

Jaylen Brown should be proud. He should be praised for having his best season ever with the Celts. He deserves credit for leading a team that outperformed all pre-season expectations. He deserves to considered for league MVP and All-NBA. So why is he being criticized by Stephen Smith and others for saying this past year was his ‘favorite season’? The answer: he committed a classic Kinsley gaffe by telling the truth. He wasn’t supposed to say or even hint he enjoyed the spotlight without Jayson Tatum. He wasn’t supposed to say he enjoyed being the team leader. He wasn’t supposed to distantly suggest, as many others have, that there might be chemistry problems when he and Tatum are on the court together. He blurted out truths. … And it’s truths that suggest another truth: that, yes, maybe it’s time to break up the Brown-Tatum duo. … A Brown trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo? I’d take it in a second. For that matter, I’m also open to trading Tatum for the right price. But that still leaves us with the stubborn Joe ‘Process’ Mazzulla problem. So don’t get too excited about potential trade moves.

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