Jaylen Brown Renews Feud With Stephen A. Smith After Celtics' 7-Game Exit

7 articles · Updated · Yahoo Sports · May 18

Brown used a Sunday Twitch stream to hit back at Smith, saying the ESPN host was pushing "clickbait" instead of journalism after Boston's first-round Game 7 loss to Philadelphia.
The latest flare-up followed Smith's criticism of Brown for going live after the defeat and his jab that Jayson Tatum had appeared on "First Take" but not on Brown's stream.
Brown dismissed the Tatum angle as irrelevant, suggesting his teammate may simply avoid "an uncontrolled environment," and said Smith was using his platform to manufacture controversy.
The clash revives a rivalry that had cooled after Boston's 2024 title run, with Brown still using Twitch to bypass traditional media even as clips from those streams keep fueling new disputes.

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