Ahead of the Boston Celtics Game 3 win over the Brooklyn Nets at TD Garden on Friday and on the heels of some comments made by former teammate and current Net Kyrie Irving, injured and convalescing All-Star wing Jaylen Brown weighed in on Irving’s expressed desire to avoid racially-charged interactions with fans.
The Brooklyn star’s words had dominated the media cycle in the last two days, with responses to them and their seeming relevance to a spate of poor fan behavior around the league as they came back to arenas in large numbers for the first time since the pandemic began in many locations encouraged the outspoken civil rights activist who happens to be a Celtic to say some words on these issues.
“I actually have a perspective to share,” Brown said to the media in his first availability since getting season-ending surgery on a torn ligament in his wrist earlier this month.
