After the Boston Celtics won Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat to keep their season alive, NBA All-Star Jaylen Brown talked about how the team rallied around each other in the face of adversity.
“I think that showed our character,” Brown said. “Like right now, obviously we underperformed in the last three games, and you start to hear all these stories come out about X, Y, and Z. Who knows where it actually comes from. 99 percent of them is not true at all.”
There were rumors going around that the Celtics’ front office would break up the core of Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Marcus Smart if the Heat won the series in four games.
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Brown said he and his teammates around all those reports and stayed “together.”
“We wanted to stay together and I think that was the emphasis last night before we played today was making sure we was on the same page,” Brown said. “We didn’t want to come out and lay an egg. We wanted to come out and play together. Wanted to come out and trust each other. Come out and play some defense. Have some pride about yourself and find a way to win a game. We’re all more than capable of doing it. So tonight we got it done.”
The Celtics won Game 4 by a final score of 116-99. Brown had 17 points, four rebounds, and four assists in 37 minutes. Boston was led by Tatum, who finished with 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in 42 minutes.
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Game 5 of this series is on Thursday, May 25. The Celtics are looking to become the first team in NBA history to erase a 3-0 series deficit in the playoffs. For that to happen, Tatum and Brown will have to play like superstars moving forward.
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