Jaylen Brown put things into perspective following the Celtics’ dramatic overtime win over the Lakers on Saturday.
Saturday’s game took place roughly 24 hours after the body camera footage of Tyre Nichols’s death was released. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, was beaten by police at a traffic stop on Jan. 7 before passing away three days later.
Brown admitted that it was “tough to come out and play a game in the midst of a viral video that’s floating around and creates that sort of trauma.”
“I would be lying if I said something like that hasn’t happened before or potentially can happen again,” Brown said.