Nike and Jaylen Brown have large beef, which has been began up once more after Giannis Antetokounmpo and Brown’s encounter in the course of the Bucks-Celtics sport earlier this week.
In case you missed it, Giannis elbowed Brown within the head after which hilariously siked him out with a faux handshake.
Giannis will get Jaylen Brown with the elbow, after which fakes out a handshake…
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— Celtics on NBC Sports activities Boston (@NBCSCeltics) November 10, 2024
After the sport, Brown didn’t discover it humorous in any respect.
“Giannis is a toddler,” Jaylen stated. “I’m simply centered on serving to my group get a win. And that’s what we did tonight.”
The Greek Freak assured everybody his actions had been in jest and stated that he’s joked round with Brown on the court docket earlier than.
“Oh, that’s what he stated?,” Giannis stated. “He stated that I used to be a toddler. I believed that I complimented him. … I attempt to be round my children so much, my nieces, and typically when I’m on the court docket, I play with stuff like that. However, as I stated, I feel he’s an unbelievable participant, however I’m simply going to proceed to be me.”
Now, Nike has grow to be concerned. Brown has a historical past of feuding with the sneaker big and even claimed that his Olympics snub was partly resulting from Nike.
The model took to socials to take a jab on the Celtics star after Giannis dropped a MONSTER 59 factors (5 lower than his profession excessive of 64) and snagged 14 rebounds to guide the Bucks to a 127-120 additional time win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday.
Brown is pretty lively on socials, so it didn’t take him to lengthy see the submit and reply to it.
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— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) November 14, 2024
The Finals MVP’s beef with Nike appeared to have started when his former Celtics teammate Kyrie Irving was dropped from the model and Nike founder Phil Knight’s subsuquent feedback.
“Kyrie stepped over the road, it’s sort of that easy, “Knight stated. “He simply made some statements we will’t abide by, and that’s why we ended the connection.”
Brown took to socials to tweet about it, “Since when did Nike care about ethics?” he wrote on the time.
