{"id":1919780,"date":"2026-05-06T00:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1919780"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:35:56","slug":"nba-fines-jaylen-brown-50000-for-public-criticism-of-officiating-on-a-livestream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1919780","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Jaylen Brown $50,000 for public criticism of officiating on a livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BOSTON \u2014 Even a playoff exit couldn\u2019t stop Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown\u2019s season-long crusade against NBA referees. The league announced Tuesday night that it fined Brown $50,000 for comments he made on a livestream<\/a> the day after the Celtics were eliminated by the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n

The Celtics lost Game 7 of their first-round series against Philadelphia 109-100 on Saturday night. Brown, who had more offensive fouls than any other player during the first round, said on a Twitch broadcast Saturday that the referees \u201cclearly had an agenda\u201d against him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe because I spoke and was critical of refs in the regular season,\u201d Brown said. \u201cSo they responded, \u2018You\u2019re gonna lead the playoffs in offensive fouls.\u2019 That\u2019s how that was, the response from the officiating crew. You could clearly tell.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I\u2019ve actually spoke to some refs, and they said it was an agenda going into each game. \u2018So, anytime Jaylen brings his arm up, just from reputation, just call it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

During the livestream, Brown also stated a belief that Joel Embiid \u201cflopped entirely, way too much\u201d and that \u201cflopping has ruined our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown was fined $35,000 in January after calling out referee Curtis Blair by name, saying he and his crew were \u201cterrible\u201d during a 100-95 Boston loss to the San Antonio Spurs. During a postgame rant, Brown also said that \u201cthe inconsistency (in officiating) is crazy\u201d and that the Celtics dealt with \u201cthe same bulls\u2014\u201d every time they played a good team.<\/p>\n

Brown criticized NBA officiating several other times throughout the season. Even after his fine in January, Brown continued to voice his complaints, outlining several reasons the Celtics deserved more respect from referees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 Even a playoff exit couldn\u2019t stop Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown\u2019s season-long crusade against NBA referees. The league announced Tuesday night that it fined Brown $50,000 for comments he made on a livestream the day after the Celtics were eliminated by the Philadelphia 76ers. The Celtics lost Game 7 of their first-round series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1919780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}