Derrick White over Jaylen Brown? REALLY?!

Derrick White over Jaylen Brown? REALLY?!

the biggest story is jayen brown that’s the biggest story now in case y’all don’t know Jaylen Brown is a reigning defending NBA champion for the Boston Celtics Jaylen Brown was essentially the MVP for the Eastern Conference Final Series against Indiana and the NBA finals against the Dallas Mavericks Jaylen Brown is the guy that averaged 23 points the game this year on 49.9 basically 50% shooting Jaylen Brown is a dude over the last four years that is average a minimum of 23 points per game and clearly the Bonafide second option of the Boston Celtics behind Mr Jason Tatum Jaylen Brown if you can call Jason Tatum one Jaylen Brown is clearly one eight somebody call some folks call him one a one as well in other words if you ain’t Jason Tatum there’s nobody that’s a more viable option than the B and Celtics than Jaylen Brown yet he’s not on the Olympic team he’s not on Team USA going to Paris try to win the gold with LeBron and embiid and Steph and Devin Booker and Kevin Durant and Anthony Edwards hell I mean Tyrese htt’s on the team now didn’t I tell y’all see this is the hard part about being although a personality and a punding of whatever it’s the 30 years of Journalism the sources that I have the things that I learn the information that I get I told y’all weeks ago Jaylen Brown wasn’t liked and everybody took it like I was throwing sh on jayen Brown do you believe me now I love the guy and I think that he’s liked by a lot of his peers and contemporaries but whether it’s Nike who he spoke out against when they dropped Kyrie after you know the the the anti-semitic tweet that they blamed him for putting out whether it’s the fact that he’s No Nonsense he’s a conscientious Observer he’s an activist at heart he’s a model citizen who speaks his mind he’s a good brother and a real authentic one at that and sometimes Madison Avenue doesn’t like that it could be an abundance of reasons but the fact of the matter is I was telling the truth and the facts bear it out ladies and gentlemen what possible explanation can you have not one not two but three members of the Boston Celtics are on Team USA none of whom name is Jaylen Brown how is that possible how is that possible well okay Jason Tatum that’s First Team all NBA you ain’t got no explanation required there all right uh Drew holiday that’s a point guard okay it’s point guard by the way Steph Curry’s on the team Tyrese halbert’s on the team so don’t tell me they need another point guard Derek white oh he’s really good had an outstanding year Drew holiday got a new deal Jaylen Brown got his $300 million deal Jason Tatum just got his $300 million bag Derek white deserved to get PE paid too fair enough fair enough but Derek white ahead of Jaylen Brown first of all you don’t need a point guard so that ain’t an excuse secondly you’re replacing kawh lenett he was a win player Jaylen Brown’s a win player he’s a prolific scorer Jaylen Brown’s a prolific scorer Derek white just finished averaging 15 game better three-point shooter than Jaylen Brown not a better shooter from the field not a better Creator off the dribble not a better dude in attack mode offensively and oh by the way Jaylen Brown just like kawh lonard Jaylen Brown defends you saw what he did against Kyrie who he’s very tight with that’s his dog that’s his brother but games one two and five you didn’t recognize Kyrie got put out a showed up in Dallas no doubt but on the road in Boston there’s a lot for Kyrie to take that crowd that Venom and hostility AED in this Direction because he left the left the Boston Celtics like a thief in the night to go to Brooklyn stepping on a paret floor thereafter as a member of the Brooklyn Nets oh they don’t like him and they threw the kitchen sink at him and then on top of it all he had to deal with Jaylen Brown Jaylen Brown can defend he is a complete player he is an Allstar he is somebody that should have been all NBA he got my vote for all NBA even though others left them off inexplicably so tell me he ain’t one of the top 15 players in the world I don’t know what folks are smoking when are y’all gonna wake up when are we G to start instead of getting personal and emotional and making assumptions just to fill a narrative and create clickbait let’s be sensible here explain to me how jayen Brown could be left off a Team USA in favor of Tatum holiday and Derek white three members of the Boston Celtics are on the team and none of their names are Jaylen Brown how can this be justified this is no shade on Derek white Derek White had a damn good season Derek white is a glue piece he fits with the team nobody’s questioning the basketball decisions of a Derek white being on a team what we’re saying is how is it that he fits but Jaylen Brown does it Jaylen Brown can score Jaylen Brown can shoot jayen Brown can defend ladies and gentlemen this ain’t BAS that’s what I’m saying this is not just a basketball decision they took other things into consideration y’all could speculate about anything hell it could be anything but it ain’t just basketball because from a strictly basketball perspective Jaylen Brown deserves to be on the team his cryptic tweet with the ey glass or whatever like hum you know what the hell is that decision about ladies and gentlemen why would he do that why why would Jaylen Brown do that those are his teammates on the team because he’s given F and then he said and I got the quote here to Nike who he had beef with like I pointed out this what we doing because Nike is believed to have a long-standing relationship with Team USA and obviously they wield a significant level of influence that could be a reason I think it’s also the fact that he was a conscientious Observer and on the front lines fighting on behalf of black people when a whole social justice movement was going on it could be anything I don’t know but it could be any of that hell I heard you know you got people talking about is this his religious beliefs because they believe he’s a Muslim I’m not sure about that but the point is you have people in today’s day and age they’ll hold anything against you from a marketing standpoint I don’t know but people are saying this in NBA circles I don’t know know what I do know is that it makes no sense to use strictly basketball reasons as an excuse to leave him off the team when three members of his own team is on the team before him there’s only one Boston Celtics that should be on any team before Jaylen Brown that’s Jason Tatum anybody else okay Drew holiday natural point guard defensive Wizardry but he plays the point guard doesn’t need the ball doesn’t need to shoot to be effective he don’t care if he going in and average two points a game that’s fair but you lost Kawai it ain’t like you lost a point guard you lost kawh Lenard if you lost kawh lenon who can score if you lost kawhai Lon who defends I can tell you that Jaylen Brown could easily be perceived as a poor man version of a kawh lenet kawh lenet was what he was and was a superstar in a two time NBA Finals MVP and a two-time champion but then he got injured perpetually so and so it’s been compromised well Jaylen Brown Ain’t injured Jaylen Brown can score Jaylen Brown can defend Jaylen Brown got a mid-range game Jaylen Brown got a jump shot Jaylen Brown Dam show could get to the hole and Jaylen Brown is willing to defend and oh by the way he’s fiery he’s energetic he’s got leadership ability all right he delivers and now he’s a champion and on the same in the same year that he win a championship wins a Conference Finals MVP wins the NBA Finals MVP that same year you GNA pick three dudes on his team ahead of him and y’all telling me I’m wrong when I say listen likeability is playing a role here I’m not saying it’s right I’m not saying it’s Justified I was simply articulating for y’all what was said and now it’s factual so rather than kill a messenger why don’t we sit here and ask oursel this one Bonafide question is there any justification to leave this man off the team in favor of three of his teammates who are on it three not one not even two three is that right is that fair is that Justice that’s the point answer that question this is not Stephen A or anybody that says something to Stephen A about Jaylen Brown not being like saying it’s right and it’s Justified I love Jaylen Brown he’s a good brother I love them I’m saying those people out there whoever they are pointed to likability or lack thereof stubbornness doing things his way as somebody telling me don’t even know how true this is they actually said to me during the whole covid-19 thing he got a call from Obama as in former president Obama asking if he’d take the vaccine and he said no I don’t know this I did not speak to Jaylen brown or Barack Obama about this but these are the kind of stories that are out there about Jaylen Brown it personally speaking I think he’s very likable I think he’s good people but my point is even if he’s not that shouldn’t be a reason to keep him off Team USA with his credentials but they kept them off anyway and when we talk about Optics and how stuff looks how about this three members of a championship team have been selected for Team USA two of them was at the expense of the team’s second leading scorer the MVP in both the Conference Finals and the NBA finals and on top of it all the same year that all of that happened he was also left off the all NBA team so as great as this brother is he’s left off the all NBA team he’s left off the Team USA the same year he wins the championship and is the finals in the two most pivotal rounds of the playoffs there MVP and the two most pivotal rounds to the playoff does that make sense to you especially for somebody that’s liked it doesn’t make sense to me it really really doesn’t think about that sleep on that

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