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Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown’s season may be over, but his feud with ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith heated up over the weekend.
Brown was on his live stream and came after Smith again after the sports pundit told the NBA guard to “be quiet.” Smith earlier responded to Brown accusing NBA referees of having an “agenda” against him after the Philadelphia 76ers came back from a 3-1 deficit to win the series against the Celtics.
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Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown is on the court before game seven of the first round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on May 2, 2026. (Winslow Townson/Imagn Images)
The five-time All-Star wrote on X earlier this month that he would “keep quiet” when Smith retires.
“Did he just tell me to be quiet? Be quiet for who?” he said Sunday night. “Man, f— Stephen A. Stephen A, Stephen B, Stephen C. My offer still stands. You want me to shut up and stop streaming, yes, I want you to shut up and leave these networks because you’re not using your platform to do real journalism. You’re using your platform to use clickbait.
“Tell this mother—- is to retire because he’s the face of clickbait media at the time, and maybe with his retirement we can start a movement to get the rest of these mother—-ers out of here — or have some kind of…forget journalistic integrity, actual integrity to hold themselves accountable to the bulls– they take out.”
Stephen A. Smith questioned whether NBA players feel safe in Memphis, and Grizzlies guard Ja Morant responded during a 2024 NBA event. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
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Brown analyzed a clip of Smith talking about Brown not having Jayson Tatum on his stream and suggested that’s why Smith is referred to as a “clown.”
It’s safe to say the Celtics had a better season than NBA fans expected. Boston entered the year without Tatum as he suffered a torn Achilles in the playoffs last year.
But Brown carried the load, playing in 71 games and averaging 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists. Brown said Smith could not understand how leadership and team chemistry helped lift the Celtics to greater heights than expected.
The Celtics were 56-26 and won the Atlantic Division.
Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown dribbles the ball against the Philadelphia 76ers during the first quarter at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 30, 2026. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)
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Smith previously said Brown should “keep quiet” unless he tried to force the Celtics to trade him.
