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After the Boston Celtics traded away Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers , conspiracies and theories began surfacing as to why they did so for a package of Paul George and a number of draft picks. With Brown 's name in the media as everyone chimes in on what he may have done to get traded, the NBA world has come to the defense of Jaylen Brown.
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Former NBA player Austin Rivers recently took to Instagram to post a three minute video rant about what whole Jaylen Brown situation, calling it absurd.
"I've seen so much negativity come Jalen Brown's way, and I'm not saying he's the most politically correct, I'm not saying his intelligence is easy to manage on a day-to-day basis, but he's done nothing wrong," Austin Rivers said in video. "And the fact is, my man just works hard. So yeah, he has a stream and he does all this other stuff and he is very outspoken and that can ruffle feathers or scare teams from what I'm hearing, for whatever reason, but the only thing that really matters is does the guy show up and play, because y'all got a bunch of twerps in the NBA that I watch that do everything right, they don't talk, they're quiet, they're easy to manage, but they can't ball for anything. I'll take the guy who shows up and hoops. You could speak all you want on all your streams and say all you want. If you're going to show up and play and work like Jaylen Brown does, I'll take it. The guy busts his ass off, he's one of the first in the practice facility, one of the last to leave, he's always in shape, he's always playing, he tries to play through injury, plays the majority of the seasons, we're talking about an Eastern Conference Finals MVP, an NBA Finals MVP, an NBA champion, a perennial All-Star, this guy's a top five, top 10 player in the NBA, and he was just traded for what? Because of some salary cap issues?"
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And he wasn't done yet. Rivers continued and took aim at ownership of the Celtics.
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"See, this is the type of ownership, this hurts the game. If you're not going to spend the money to put the best product out there for your fan base, then you shouldn't be in the sport. How was Jaylen Brown moved? And then now we got a smear campaign by a bunch of anonymous sources, nobody puts their name out of course, it's a bunch of twerps, you know, the NBA's filled with them, a lot of people who have no background in basketball, never really put any weight or any work or sweat in the game, they're just people who have gotten a part of an organization and have just lasted. I can't tell you how shocked I am when I go from team to team to team, I call these games and I'll see people high up, whether it's in coaching, front office, and I'll be like, how the hell did he get there? I remember he used to just be a ball boy. And then the response is, well Eric Spoelstra started, I love how people always try to use the anomaly as the reason, you ain't Eric Spoelstra. We have too many people in positions of power that are making decisions that just don't know what they're talking about, or don't know what they're doing. And these are the same people that are given these anonymous tips, sound bites, just disrespecting hard-working players like Jaylen Brown. One of the elite of the elites. The Magic gave up more to get Desmond Bane than what the Celtics just gave up Jaylen Brown for. And what I'm hearing is, oh well his stock dropped, people are scared of Jaylen. For what? He does the hard stuff. He hoops. He does the most important thing. He hoops. He competes. He actually plays on both sides of the floor. Are you kidding me? After the year my man just had? I'm sick of the smear campaigns. I'm so sick of the anonymous sources. If you're going to talk crazy, especially about our elite, put a name on it. My God, I'm so tired of this."
A number of players commented on Austin Rivers' Instagram post, and even former Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James took to his Instagram story.
"Put a fkn name on it!" James said with a 100 emoji.
Bradley Beal , Isiah Thomas, Richard Jefferson , JR Smith , and James Posey were among athletes who commented and agreed with Rivers in the video.
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