Jaylen Brown calls out Joel Embiid 'flopping,' officiating in Celtics vs. 76ers: 'They clearly had an agenda'

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Just around 24 hours after the Boston Celtics lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7, sealing their blown 3-1 series lead, Jaylen Brown decided to air out some of his thoughts on the result.

After initially using his postgame press conference to mention Joel Embiid "flopping," on Sunday night, the Celtics star was on his own live stream, breaking down some of the big plays from Game 7 — and taking his criticism of the officiating a step further.

Brown doubled down on his Embiid comments, then suggested there were officials who needed to be "investigated" and that many have an "agenda" against him.

Here's what Brown had to say about Embiid and the officiating in Celtics vs. 76ers.

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Jaylen Brown calls out Joel Embiid for 'flopping'

Brown's gripes about how the Celtics' season ended began at the podium, moments after Boston allowed the 76ers to claim a Game 7 win on the road and complete a 3-1 comeback. While the Celtics missing Tatum, shooting 13-for-47 from deep and struggling to make clutch shots down the stretch all played a role in Saturday's loss, one of Brown's main attributions for the defeat came with some allegations against Philadelphia's star center.

"[Embiid is] a big body. He also was flopping around, he got some extra calls, stuff like that," Brown said. "They rewarded him for that, but that's the league that we're in."

In Game 7, Brown and Embiid had been seen getting chippy in one of the NBA's longest rivalry matchups. As Embiid sized up, then backed down Brown, the two barked at one another, with the 76ers star getting the best of that matchup then later being seen saying, "I'm not guarding you."

Brown and Embiid had some other high-intensity plays against one another in Game 7, each swatting a shot from the opposing star.

That wasn't the end of the Game 7 head-to-head matchup between Brown and Embiid. Toward the end of the series, after a whistle, Embiid sent Brown to the floor and was given a technical foul for excessive contact, a play that left the Celtics star limping.

Still, the two showed respect to one another postgame, seen chatting and smiling as the 76ers advanced.

On Sunday night, however, appearing on his own stream, Brown had a whole lot more to say in regard to Embiid. 

"Joel Embiid is a great player. One of the best bigs in f---ing basketball history. [He] flops. He knows it, this ain't breaking news," Brown said. "It is what it is."

Brown, breaking down some of his Game 7 film on stream, also said that "there's weight classes for a reason" in reference to his back injury from the Embiid technical foul. 

"Massive human being," Brown said. "But I'll tell you what. You give him another possession, I'll get right back in there and guard his a-- again."

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Jaylen Brown says Celtics-76ers officials had 'agenda,' should be 'investigated'

That wasn't the end of Brown's controversial stream comments about the Celtics' Game 7 exit on Sunday night.

He also called out the officials in the series, saying that he's not the only player who will push off offensively and suggested that the officials were "targeting" him.

"Every player does it. So why are you targeting me? They clearly had an agenda, maybe because I've spoken and I was critical of refs in the regular season, and so they responded, 'You're going to lead the playoffs in offensive fouls,'" Brown said. 

He also claimed that he's previously spoken to officials who "told me there’s an agenda going on each game that any time Jaylen puts his hands up, just call it."

"But Paul George does the same thing, Jalen Brunson does the same thing, s--- I could go down the list, it's a basketball play," Brown said. "Philly took advantage of it, and they took advantage of the officiating, and it cost us to some degree. But I've been doing it all regular season, not a problem, and now all of a sudden it's an offensive foul every time?"

Brown also went as far as to say that if he "had to choose," there were a few NBA officials who "need to be investigated," all of whom were on the call for the last three games of Celtics vs. 76ers.

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