Celtics star Jaylen Brown tears into ESPN's Stephen A Smith as feud escalates: 'Face of clickbait media'

Dan Dakich breaks down the latest NBA media firestorm as Charles Barkley calls out Stephen A. Smith over his criticism of LeBron James and the Memphis controversy.

Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown’s season may be over but his feud with ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith heated up over the weekend.

Brown was on his livestream and came after Smith once again after the sports pundit told the NBA guard to "be quiet." Smith previously responded to Brown accusing NBA referees of having an "agenda" against him following the Philadelphia 76ers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to win the series against the Celtics.

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Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown is on the court before game seven of the first round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 2, 2026. (Winslow Townson/Imagn Images)

The five-time All-Star wrote on X earlier this month he would "be quiet" once Smith retired.

"Did he just say I needed to be quiet? Be quiet for who?" he said Sunday night. "Man, f--- Stephen A. Stephen A, Stephen B, Stephen C. My offer still stands. You want me to be quiet and stop streaming, well, I want you to be quiet and get off these networks because you’re not using your platform to do real journalism. You’re using your platform to use clickbait.

"Tell this mother----er to retire because he’s the face of clickbait media at the point and maybe with his retirement we can spark a movement to get the rest of these mother----ers out of here — or to also have some type of … forget journalistic integrity, actual integrity in order to hold themselves accountable to the bulls--- takes they put out."

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