"Jaylen Brown, Be Careful What You Wish For" - Stephen A Smith Has Now Turned To Making Empty Threats Towards Jaylen Brown Following His Latest Stream
Jesse D. Garrabrant. Getty Images.The second Jaylen Brown went on his stream last night and took his latest shots at Stephen A Smith, we all knew what that meant
With such a direct call out like that, we've all seen this movie before and what happens next. Even if everything Jaylen said in his stream last night was true, that's never really the point. Things like that feed the troll and give Stephen A exactly what he wants. Attention, media/player beef, eyeballs etc. It gives him even more content to do the very thing Jaylen was calling out, which is why the least surprising thing of all time was how Stephen A reacted this morning, essentially threatening Jaylen Brown
Giphy Images.If that felt familiar, it's because this is right out of the Stephen A playbook. Remember the whole "You don't want to make an enemy out of me" bit he used when KD called him out on his bullshit all the way back in 2015? This was essentially the 2026 version.
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And I dunno, outside of some weird anti-Jaylen Celtics fans, most of the city loves Jaylen Brown. He helped bring them a title. He's developed into a great Celtic who is going to have his number raised to the rafters. He makes a huge impact in the community which makes a REAL difference. I'm not sure that's the threat that Stephen A thinks it is.
How does the organization feels about him? I dunno, they seem to be pretty pleased given ya know the repeated max extensions they've offered and all the trades they've refused to do. Now maybe that happens this summer for a number of reasons, or maybe Brad hands out another extension in July. But again, I'm not sure that's the type of threat that Stephen A thinks. He's either going to get an extension or he won't. That doesn't need any "reporting" or whatever.
How does Jayson Tatum feel about Jaylen Brown? Aside from he himself telling the world how he feels on multiple occasions, is the implication that Stephen A would discover some sort of "truth" that would be the opposite?
Giphy Images.The show and network that have been trying to create a divide between the Jays for a decade is going to find out what? Would Stephen A "report" that there is no beef or hatred between the Jays? Of course not! How do we know that? Because they've had 10 years of evidence that suggests the opposite, yet here we are.
I know some feel like Jaylen didn't come off the best in his streams or his calling out of Stephen A, but did this response not validate everything Jaylen said? Totally normal behavior for a media member to be openly threatening a player on live television, which is kind of Jaylen's point in the first place. This is the NBA media game in 2026, which is why players like Jaylen prefer to go an alternate route with their streams.
I'm also curious what Stephen A thought this would accomplish. Is this supposed to make Jaylen scared or something? Like there are all these big bad secrets that only Stephen A would uncover if he decided to do "real" journalism? It's all so weird. Maybe instead of throwing out empty threats, he actually does it. It's easy to talk about it and make this whole scene, but maybe just do it instead? Put your name on actual reporting. Notice how Stephen A always makes these types of threats and then never does anything? We saw it with KD, we saw it with LeBron, and now we're seeing it with Jaylen.
Stephen A believes he's the story. That he's bigger than the players he covers. When he's called out on that stuff, he pulls this move and thinks it's some sort of death blow. In reality, all he's doing is backing up Jaylen Brown's initial point.
Again, at the end of the day the real crime here is that Jaylen & Co choked away the 3-1 lead in the first round and instead of potentially talking about an ECF matchup, this is what we are left with. That, is not on Stephen A. That's on Jaylen and the team. All they had to do was not have the worst collapse in franchise history, and ALL of this is avoided. I don't think that'll ever stop being annoying.