Jayson Tatum beat the Knicks by himself Friday night time. Thirty-six factors, 25 of them after halftime, a 107-103 win in Boston’s house opener.
No person wished to speak about that.
Each query afterward was about Jaylen Brown. Tatum tried to kill the story in a single breath: “Like, this ain’t no f***ing Shaq and Kobe. Like, there’s no beef.” He mentioned he’d already reached out to Brown the day of the commerce — calls, texts, an open invitation to speak it out.
Credit score him for attempting. Evaluating your scenario favorably to Shaq and Kobe remains to be citing Shaq and Kobe.
Brown wasn’t achieved both. In a vlog, Tatum mentioned Brown’s commerce blindsided him as a lot because it did everybody else. Brown’s reply to that was a cap emoji, dropped straight into the feedback of the Bleacher Report put up carrying the clip. Translation, for anybody who skipped that semester of Instagram: he thinks Tatum’s mendacity.
Then got here the actual headline.
Jaylen Brown on Jayson Tatum: “It’s no beef, nevertheless it is likely to be little lamb chops and a few gravy, you already know what I imply?
“He ought to keep prepared always.” pic.twitter.com/1jkBUKguWr
— Kris Rhim (@krisrhim1) October 25, 2026
“He’s obtained an excellent PR crew.” Adopted instantly by the road all people’s repeating at present — no beef, however possibly a little bit lamb chops. With gravy. That’s a denial doing a victory lap.
Boston shipped out a Finals MVP for Paul George and a stack of picks over the summer season, and three months later the 2 guys are nonetheless negotiating the breakup in public, one emoji and one meals metaphor at a time. Allow them to preserve going. That is higher content material than something both crew’s really taking part in proper now.