If failing to get out of the first round of the playoffs was bad enough, Jaylen Brown’s wallet is also taking a loss.
The NBA announced Tuesday that the Celtics star has been fined $50,000 for comments he made about referees on his Twitch livestream after Boston was eliminated by the 76ers on Saturday.
Brown’s point of contention was over push-offs and offensive fouls, the latter of which he was called for 10 times during the seven-game series. Brown speculated the reason behind the calls against him could have been because of prior comments he made against officials.
Jaylen Brown is pictured during the final minutes of the Celtics’ Game 7 loss to the 76ers on May 2, 2026 in Boston. AP He went as far as to say the refs had an “agenda.”
“Every good basketball player does this. What are y’all talking about? They clearly had an agenda,” Brown said. “‘If Jaylen does this move, call the offensive foul and follow him every time.’ I don’t know if it’s because I pissed the refs off. I’ve been critical about them, and I called them out a bunch of times. So, they were like, ‘You know what, I got you in the playoffs. Watch this.’ [Because] that’s exactly what they did.
“It’s clearly an agenda. Look at the same move. Some referees that if I had to choose, if I had to, like, say there’s some referees that need to be investigated. We had three of them in the last three games.”
Brown also had some strong words for 76ers star Joel Embiid.
“Joel Embiid is a great player. One of the best bigs in basketball history. [But he] flops. He know it,” Brown said. “This ain’t breaking news. It is what it is.”
Joel Embiid and Jaylen Brown embrace after the 76ers’ Game 7 win. Getty Images Without Jayson Tatum, Brown scored 33 points with nine rebounds and four assists in a 109-100 season-ending loss. In Games 5 and 6, though, he was held to 18 and 22 points, respectively.
Ex-Celtics star and current ESPN NBA pundit Kendrick Perkins called out Brown for his rant and said the reason the Celtics got bounced was that they “died by” the 3-pointer and lost three games at home.
“You can miss me with all this s–t,” Perkins said during an appearance on “Road Trippin’ Show.” “You were up 3-1. Motherf–ker, yo ass flops at times. I don’t want to hear that. There was no agenda whatsoever.
“The agenda was that y’all couldn’t make shots.”
