BOSTON — Jaylen Brown couldn’t get the exact quote correct, but you could put the words together to make a reasonable deduction on where he was going.
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth” is an African proverb popularized by the Marvel film “Black Panther” six years ago, and Brown used it to describe how he and teammate Jayson Tatum deal with the scrutiny of being Celtics and of being on a contending team that hasn’t yet gotten over the hump.