{"id":867524,"date":"2026-10-25T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/867524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:57:12","slug":"jaylen-brown-ratchets-up-jayson-tatum-drama-he-should-stay-ready-at-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/867524\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown ratchets up Jayson Tatum drama: ‘He should stay ready at all times’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite Jayson Tatum\u2019s efforts to cool the conversations<\/a> around the Celtics star and his former teammate, Jaylen Brown poured fuel on the fire by Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The most recent development in the back-and-forth saga in regards to having \u201cbeef\u201d with one another, Brown \u2014 now a 76er \u2014 didn\u2019t say there is as much.<\/p>\n

However, he suggested there are \u201clamp chops and some gravy\u201d and that Tatum \u201cshould stay ready at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jaylen Brown of the Philadelphia 76ers walks off the court after the game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see the full thing, but I saw that he said it\u2019s no beef, and I think he\u2019s right,\u201d Brown said of Tatum\u2019s most recent comments following the 76ers\u2019 127-116 victory over the Bucks on Saturday. \u201cThere\u2019s no beef. Jayson comes from a wonderful family. We\u2019ve accomplished some great things. He\u2019s hell of a basketball player. He\u2019s got a great PR team. There\u2019s no beef, but it might be a little lamb chops and some gravy. He should stay ready at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

When a follow up question came, asking why he said that Brown stated \u201cThat\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo beef. It should never, ever be that. It\u2019s just basketball. We both blessed. But it might be a little lamb chop. We\u2019ll be alright,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

The he-said, he-said all stems from a comment Brown made on Tatum\u2019s post of the new episode of his \u201cThe Sit Down\u201d series <\/a>on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The episode highlighted how Tatum learned of Boston trading Brown to Philadelphia during the offseason in July. He explained he was \u201ccaught off guard as the rest of the world.\u201d That didn\u2019t seem to sit right with Brown, who commented the blue cap emoji on the post.<\/a><\/p>\n

The following day, Tatum responded to Brown\u2019s comment during his postgame press conference after the Celtics\u2019 win over the Knicks, stating the situation \u201cain\u2019t no f\u2013king Shaq and Kobe.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum (0) of the Boston Celtics walks off the court during a game against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand we\u2019re in the entertainment business. Me personally, I\u2019m not much of an off-the-court entertainer type of guy,\u201d the 28-year-old said. \u201cFor me, I don\u2019t have any animosity or beef or ill will towards him. I think the frustrating part is, since he\u2019s not with the Celtics anymore, the narrative or the conversations haven\u2019t been enough about what we accomplished. All the games we won, winning a championship, how we\u2019ve grown together. And it\u2019s turned into this drama type of thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen all these things about \u2018get your popcorn ready when they play.\u2019 This ain\u2019t no f\u2013king boxing match. I play basketball. Again, there\u2019s no animosity. There\u2019s no beef. I just hate the way the conversation and the narrative around it when there\u2019s not enough communication. And I think a conversation would solve or put out a lot of fires.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Saturday\u2019s game, Brown was asked if his cap emoji comment was meant to suggest Tatum was lying about the true sequence of events in Boston. Yet, he dodged the question. <\/p>\n

\u201cHey, look, like I said, there\u2019s no beef. The PR and all that type of stuff, it is what it is. But I think we\u2019re just both focused on what\u2019s in front of us,\u201d the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum #0 and Jaylen Brown #7 of the Boston Celtics look on against the Philadelphia 76ers during game three of the Eastern Conference first round playoffs at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Friday, April 24, 2026. The Celtics defeated the 76ers 108-100. Getty Images<\/p>\n

In 2016, the Celtics drafted Brown third overall in the NBA Draft. The following year, Tatum was taken third overall out of Duke. <\/p>\n

Since then, the two have been defining figures for the franchise.<\/p>\n

Since the 2016-2017 season, the Celtics made four Eastern Conference Finals appearance and two NBA Finals berths. The two led Boston to take home the title in 2024 and Brown won the Finals MVP. <\/p>\n

Despite their successful history, it\u2019s unknown if the two will reconcile their differences. When asked if he\u2019s open to having a conversation with Tatum, it didn\u2019t seem high on Brown\u2019s to-do list.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both got so much stuff in front of us. So, you know, at the end of the day, he gotta do what he gotta do for his team. I gotta do what I gotta do for my team,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The 76ers will host the Celtics for their first meeting of the season on Nov. 10 at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Jayson Tatum\u2019s efforts to cool the conversations around the Celtics star and his former teammate, Jaylen Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,75,78,77,6,207,66],"class_list":["post-867524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117502374334144854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}