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Breaking News: Jaylen Brown Responds to Grant Hill’s Clergy Theorist Remarks….

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5 months ago

July 29, 2024

Jaylen Brown is still upset that Team USA passed him over for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The current Finals MVP, Brown, has taken offense when USA Basketball Director Grant Hill refers to his sentiments as a “conspiracy theory” after he implied that sneaker politics caused his exclusion from the team.

It disappoints me that Grant Hill called me a conspiracy theorist. Since I was 21 years old, I have served as VP. I comprehend a great deal.

In response to remarks made by Hill on Dan Patrick’s show, Brown spoke.

I’m not sure if that happened before or after the information was leaked on Twitter. However, I do believe that there is a conspiracy theory—I always enjoy a good conspiracy theory—but in all honesty, it was a difficult basketball choice. But after going through this with the FIBA competition, you want to make sure that we have the proper balance and the necessary players on the court.

It appears that a sizable segment of the basketball community believes that Brown was passed up because he isn’t a Nike athlete, as some media figures have also said.Being one of the only athletes to publicly support Kyrie Irving, Jaylen has had strained relations with Nike since the company dismissed him in 2022. Jaylen was formerly universally regarded to be a Nike athlete.

Jaylen Brown’s Selection Might Just Be About Fit

Since he was unquestionably one of the best players in the NBA last season and won MVP of the Eastern Conference and Finals over his three Celtics teammates who were called up, Jaylen Brown will believe that Nike withheld his call-up. However, Team USA’s lineup against Serbia suggests the choice was most likely made with basketball in mind.

Brown’s 2024 Olympic playing time is equal to that of teammate Jayson Tatum, who received a DNP while watching Team USA thrash Serbia 110-84 in just 40 minutes. Derrick White and Jrue Holiday both contributed significantly to the victory, with Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton being the only members of Team USA to not participate.

Tatum, a three-time All-NBA First Team pick, will probably make his Paris 2024 debut in the USA’s match against South Sudan in two days, since Steve Kerr has bemoaned his decision to not play. However, Tatum’s lack of consideration demonstrates that this squad values versatility and compatibility over name recognition.

Alongside Victor Wembanyama, Tatum is one of the cornerstones of Jordan Brand and their most well-known athlete in the Olympics, particularly in light of the absence of Zion Williamson and Luka Doncic from the Paris tournament. In this match, he was the one who received a DNP in spite of that.

While Jaylen Brown is a versatile two-way swingman who can fill in for any position that Team USA needs him to, he lacks White’s strength as a POA defender or Holiday, and he doesn’t handle the ball as much as the other guards do. Brown would have a similar situation if Tatum, who has shown he can be a No. 1 option and a team-oriented forward, is receiving DNPs.

This story was syndicated with permission after it originally published on Fadeaway World.