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Jaylen Brown Calls Out ‘Flopping’ Joel Embiid After Celtics’ Season Ends in Brutal Elimination
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Jaylen Brown Calls Out ‘Flopping’ Joel Embiid After Celtics’ Season Ends in Brutal Elimination

SI·Kristen Wong·about 1 month ago
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The Celtics’ season ended Saturday night in a do-or-die Game 7 against the 76ers that marked Philadelphia’s first playoff series win over Boston in 44 years. Joel Embiid led the charge with 34 points to beat the No. 2-seeded Celtics , 109-100, at TD Garden, helping Philly come back from a 3-1 series deficit for the first time in franchise history. Not everyone was impressed by Embiid’s big game, though. Celtics star Jaylen Brown, who finished with a team-high 33 points with Jayson Tatum sitting out due to knee stiffness , made some pointed comments about the 76ers big man following the Celtics’ brutal loss. Brown admitted that his team didn’t “really have an answer” for Embiid before claiming that Embiid was “flopping around” and may have gotten a friendly whistle. “We tried a bunch of different things, and he just—you know, he’s a big body. He also was flopping around. He got some extra calls and stuff like that and they rewarded him for that. But that’s the league that we’re in.…

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