Vincent Goodwill Oct 24, 2026, 01:25 AM ET

BOSTON -- There have been rings and failures, innuendos, rumors and internet emojis, and finally, a trade that ended the Jayson Tatum - Jaylen Brown partnership in Boston .

Tatum spent most of his postgame news conference Friday night addressing the social media stir that Brown created earlier this week. Brown posted a blue hat -- a symbol for "cap," the slang definition of someone being untruthful -- on Instagram in response to Tatum saying in a video on his YouTube channel that he was "just as much caught off guard as the rest of the world" by Brown's trade to the Philadelphia 76ers this summer.

Asked if he had any response to Brown's social media comment, Tatum sighed before expressing his frustrations with the entire situation for several minutes.

"I don't have any animosity or beef or ill will towards him," Tatum said after the Celtics' 107-103 win over the New York Knicks in Boston's home opener.…