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Tatum and Brown Downplay NBA Drama
Confirmed
In Short: Tatum downplayed any drama, telling 98.5 The Sports Hub, “There is no drama with Brown.” He emphasized the importance of communication and understanding between adults.
Tatum downplayed any drama, telling 98.5 The Sports Hub, “There is no drama with Brown.” He emphasized the importance of communication and understanding between adults.
Brown, for his part, told Bozeman Daily Chronicle, “There's no beef,” and echoed Tatum's sentiments about the need for communication.
The drama began when Tatum posted a sponsored documentary on his YouTube channel, sharing his shocked reaction to Brown's trade to the 76ers.
Brown responded with a blue cap emoji on Instagram, a social media term for a lie or false statement, to a video clip of Tatum discussing the trade.
Tatum told 98.5 The Sports Hub, “We went twice and won a championship, so it should be more about that. Man, this ain't no [expletive] Shaq and Kobe. There is no beef.”
Brown also told Bozeman Daily Chronicle, “I saw that he said there’s no beef and I think he’s right.”
What's confirmed
- Tatum downplayed any drama, telling 98.5 The Sports Hub, “There is no drama with Brown.” He emphasized the importance of communication and understanding between adults.
- Brown, for his part, told Bozeman Daily Chronicle, “There's no beef,” and echoed Tatum's sentiments about the need for communication.
- The drama began when Tatum posted a sponsored documentary on his YouTube channel, sharing his shocked reaction to Brown's trade to the 76ers.
- Brown responded with a blue cap emoji on Instagram, a social media term for a lie or false statement, to a video clip of Tatum discussing the trade.
What's still developing
- Oct 23, 2026; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum (0) reacts during the second half against the New York Knicks at TD Garden.
- “So for me, at this point in our lives, we’re too old to be having our relationship discussed X, Y and Z on the internet,” Tatum said.
- Brown said he and Tatum had “not really” been able to talk about their breakup during his 76ers introductory press conference on Aug. 6, over one month after he was traded.
- The Celtics superstar praised his time playing with Brown, highlighting their successful tenure together that included winning the NBA Finals in 2024.
- Now that he’s more than a year and a half removed from surgery — 16 1/2 months, he specifically noted — will Tatum look like the player who made four straight All-NBA first teams in 2022, ’23, ’24 and ’25?
- For most of their nine-year partnership, during which the Celtics won one championship and 20 more postseason games than any other NBA club, Tatum and Brown operated as the team’s 1A and 1B, respectively.
- He’s “there to support (Tatum) in all facets,” the 36-year-old said, and plans to draw on the lessons he learned playing alongside Kawhi Leonard with the Los Angeles Clippers.
- Jayson Tatum vs. Jaylen Brown -- a battle some say has been brewing for years -- has begun to boil over.
- "Jaylen brown really always wanted that dude to win and it was never truly reciprocated."
- Jayson Tatum on the Jaylen Brown trade in a recent interview: "I was just as much caught off guard as the rest of the world." Jaylen Brown in the comments: 🧢 pic.twitter.com/dia6lscJ2E Obviously, that comment went even more viral than the video of Tatum.
- The seemingly fractured relationship between Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown has made headlines throughout the first week of the new NBA season, with the former teammates trading retorts during postgame press conferences. Speaking to reporters at the Auerbach Center on Sunday, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla was asked to weigh in on the drama between the two.
- Brown sparked discourse about his relationship with Tatum over the last few days, taking to Instagram to respond with a “cap” emoji — a slang term for something untrue — to a video of Tatum discussing Brown’s trade to Philly in the offseason. In the video, Tatum said he had no prior knowledge that the Celtics were going to trade Brown to an Atlantic Division rival in the Sixers.