Every time he touched the ball, Jaylen Brown got raucously booed by the Cleveland crowd. The boos — a result of a second-quarter entanglement with Max Strus — never wavered, all the way until the final buzzer.
Luckily for the Celtics, neither did Brown’s offense, nor his confidence.
“I embraced it,” Brown said of his newfound villain status at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Jaylen Brown was called for a common foul after grabbing Max Strus' ankle.
Should this have been upgraded to a flagrant? pic.twitter.com/baIkjY19ik— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 13, 2024Brown had just finished a layup when Max Strus landed on top of him.