{"id":2973,"date":"2024-11-02T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2024-11-02T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T08:34:11","slug":"trending-celtics-jaylen-brown-rips-grant-williams-for-ray-lewis-like-hit-on-jayson-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"TRENDING: Celtics&#8217; Jaylen Brown Rips Grant Williams for &#8216;Ray Lewis&#8217;-Like Hit on Jayson Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.bleacherreport.com\/image\/upload\/w_800,h_533,c_fill\/v1730518908\/ttmxo2htesdmzvu28quf.jpg\" alt=\"CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 01: Grant Williams #2 of the Charlotte Hornets fouls Jayson Tatum #0 of the Boston Celtics in the fourth quarter during their game at Spectrum Center on November 01, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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(Photo by Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams was ejected Friday after body-checking Boston Celtics forward (and ex-teammate) Jayson Tatum to the floor in the fourth quarter of the C&#8217;s&#8217; 124-109 road win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grant Williams was ejected after this flagrant 2 foul on Jayson Tatum \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YbhC1psP7r\">pic.twitter.com\/YbhC1psP7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1852527710532174069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Celtics star Jaylen Brown didn&#8217;t take kindly to that, immediately getting in Williams&#8217; face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After the game, Brown invoked Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis in a postgame interview when asked if he thought Williams intentionally fouled Tatum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Like, what are we talking about? Y&#8217;all see the same play that I was seeing?&#8221; Brown said, per ESPN News Services. &#8220;He hit him like it was a football play. Like, Ray Lewis coming across the middle or something. It is what it is. Grant know better than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brown also added: &#8220;Actions speak loud. It is what it is. We got the win, we move on. But there&#8217;s no place in the game for that. I thought JT and Grant was friends. &#8230; I guess not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI thought JT and Grant was friends. I guess not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown on Grant Williams\u2019 flagrant 2 foul on Jayson Tatum \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/45lZoSfxxq\">pic.twitter.com\/45lZoSfxxq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1852541950831800739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Williams spoke with Kayla Burton of NBC Sports Boston postgame and said he wasn&#8217;t trying to hurt Tatum. He admitted it was a &#8220;hard foul&#8221; but said it wasn&#8217;t intentional and that Tatum is one of his &#8220;closest friends&#8221; in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I talked to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GrantWilliams?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GrantWilliams<\/a> after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what he had to say about the flagrant foul on Jayson Tatum\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSCeltics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSCeltics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Celtics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Celtics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hornets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hornets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/umfI2OSLGQ\">pic.twitter.com\/umfI2OSLGQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kayla Burton (@Kay_Breezy22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kay_Breezy22\/status\/1852539685878305017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Regarding Brown, Williams said: &#8220;JB kind of escalated it, but I understand he&#8217;s trying to protect his teammate. But that&#8217;s (Tatum) my dog. No matter what I got his back. &#8230; No malice or any issue with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tatum did not speak with reporters postgame, per ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As Brown noted, though, the Celtics did get the win and will move on. Tatum scored 32, Brown added 25 and the defending NBA champions moved to 5-1. Up next is a road date with the Atlanta Hawks on Monday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams was ejected Friday after body-checking Boston Celtics forward (and ex-teammate) Jayson Tatum to the floor in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TRENDING: Celtics&#039; Jaylen Brown Rips Grant Williams for &#039;Ray Lewis&#039;-Like Hit on Jayson Tatum - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=2973\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRENDING: Celtics&#039; 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