Lou Williams suggests that there's an agenda against the Celtics citing Jaylen Brown being excluded from Team USA and Jayson Tatum receiving limited minutes

Mike Wilbon in January of 2026 talks about hearing early rumblings that the Celtics might have to break up Tatum and Brown months before the trade happened

Jaylen Brown ignores a wide open Tatum to shoot an off balance heavily contested midrange while being double teamed

Jayson Tatum on Jaylen Brown For me I love that guy You cant talk about him without talking about me and vice versa Unfortunately the business of basketball is always going to play a part Nobody has ever played together forever

Grant Hill on leaving Jaylen Brown off Team USA to imply that like a shoe company told me what to do Now you questioning my character and that was the things that was weird

Bill Simmons I dont know if this is the best situation for him Jaylen Brown in Philly but Ill guess well find out But he went from Its time for me to have my own team to him being the 4th most important person on this team Hes basically going to have to be their Derrick White

Bill Simmons I think one of the reasons they made the trade is they felt like he Paul George might be a better fit at this point in Jayson Tatum's career I think they were feeling like it was a better basketball fit and I think they wanted some of their other younger wings to play more