Boston Celtic star Jaylen Brown is not happy following the team’s loss to the Orlando Magic.
The Orlando Magic are back in the series after winning the first of their two home games against the Boston Celtics.
The Magic won a tight game 95-93, surging back despite the Celtics welcoming back Jayson Tatum to the team.
Franz Wagner scored 32 points and Paolo Banchero had 29, narrowing Boston’s lead back to 2-1 in the series.
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesJaylen Brown unhappy with referees
The talk of the series has been the physicality, with Jayson Tatum missing Game 2 after sustaining a hand injury in the opener, that saw Al Horford criticize the Magic’s approach.
And then Kristaps Porzingis suffered an elbow to the head in the previous game.
Ahead of Game 3, Jaylen Brown said the Celtics were not going to be intimidated by a physical approach.
Speaking after the loss, at his press conference in a response to a question from the Boston Globe, Brown expressed his unhappiness with the officiating.
Brown warned: “There might be a fight break out or something.
“It’s starting to feel like it’s not even basketball, and the refs is not controlling their environment.”
“If we want to fight it, we can do that. We can fight to see who goes to the second round.”
Jaylen Brown was asked by @GwashburnGlobe about how the Celtics can respond to the Magic’s fouls:
“There might be a fighter break out or something. It’s starting to feel like it’s not even basketball, and the refs is not controlling their environment.”
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Jayson Tatum return numbers
While the Boston Celtics dropped the game, the big positive for them was Jayson Tatum’s highly impressive return.
Tatum scored 36 points, had 9 rebounds and 4 assists, playing 39 minutes and showing no signs of being impeded by the injury that kept him out of the second game in the series.
This bodes well for the Celtics for the rest of the series, while Jaylen Brown had 19 points. The big difference in this one was Porzingis only managing seven points.