Mazzulla gives passionate response to scrutiny of Tatum-Brown duo

Mazzulla gives passionate response to scrutiny of Tatum-Brown duo originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The Boston Celtics eliminated the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals on May 25, giving them 10 days of rest before Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals.

With such a long period between actual games, it was inevitable that some talking heads in the media would bring up silly discussions about the Celtics star duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The craziest one was probably ESPN’s Get Up! show talking earlier this week about whether Tatum was happy that Brown won Eastern Conference Finals MVP, even though Tatum was clearly smiling and clapping for Brown the entire time as the trophy was presented.

Sure, there’s a lot of air time to fill until the Finals, but some of these discussions have just gotten out of hand.

When asked Friday about the scrutiny the Tatum-Brown tandem faces, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla gave a passionate defense of his two superstars.

“It’s a really good question. I’m kind of (thinking) about how deep I want to get into that, because the whole thing about that really pisses me off. And I think it’s really unfair to both of them,” Mazzulla said at his press conference. “I think it’s stupid that people have to use those two guys’ names and use information that they don’t know to create clickbait so that they can stay relevant.

“It’s really unfair that those two get compared. They’re two completely different people, two completely different players. They’re great teammates, they love each other. They go about winning and they go about their process in a different way. So why they have to always be lumped together I think is unfair and people just use it for their own relativity.

“At the end of the day, those two guys, their relationship is their relationship. They love each other, they push each other every single day in practice. They communicate with each other, but they go about winning differently. I think they both get an unfair — being compared to each other. They’re different, and you see other duos around the league don’t have to go through that, and it’s because of the…

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Publish date : 2024-06-01 00:21:57

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