Sa Boston, inamin ni Jalen Brown ng Boston Celtics na nadisyamaya siya sa paglisan ni LeBron James sa Eastern Conference.
“To be honest, I wanted him to stay,” sambit ni Brown. “I was kind of mad. I wanted to be the team to go through him, you know what I mean?
“I felt like we could have had it last year, but we fell a little bit short. But I applaud somebody doing what’s best for him. He did what’s best for him and his situation.
“I wanted him to stay in the East. I don’t like when people say, you know, now that LeBron’s gone, y’all are the favorite. You know, that irks me. A lot of us, we feel the same, because we feel like whether he was there or if he wasn’t there, we was coming out (of the Eastern Conference).”
Sa nakalipas na season, muntik nang nasibak ng Celtics ang grupo ni James sa Cleveland sa East Finals.