Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown was tossed in the second quarter of Tuesday night’s 125-116 loss to the San Antonio Spurs after being called for two technical fouls.
Brown started arguing with officials after he turned the ball over while going out of bounds, saying he felt that Spurs guard Stephon Castle had pushed him.
Then Brown began shouting at official Tyler Ford to state his case and didn’t stop, even when another official, Suyash Mehta, called him for a second technical, leading to a game ejection. Brown had to be held back by teammates from going after the officials.
Ford said after the game the first technical was called because Brown was ‘aggressively pointing and using profanity and resentment to the no-call.’ The second technical was because Brown ‘aggressively approached a game official while pointing and using profanity.’
The Celtics contingent had plenty to say about the officiating after the game.
‘I just give a ton of credit to my high school principal. He had the balls to throw a student out. He didn’t leave it to the hall monitor,’ Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. ‘He was a hell of a principal.’
Brown, who was fined $35,000 by the NBA in January for his comments about the officials, took to social media posting, ‘this the (expletive) I be talking about.’
‘I disagree with it. The NBA makes a big deal about prime-time games and stars playing and being available,’ said Jayson Tatum, who scored 24 points in his third game back after returning from an Achilles injury. ‘National TV game, two of the best teams in the league, and you make a big deal about stars playing, then you (get) trigger-happy and throw somebody out the game, I disagree with it.”
