Winning the Finals MVP trophy and leading the Celtics to their 18th title, Jaylen Brown silenced every critic who was questioning his $303 million contract. Since then, JB has been riding the wave of success and is not leaving any stone unturned as he delivered a month-old receipt to Stephen A. Smith by wearing a “State Your Source” t-shirt to Friday’s Championship parade in Boston. It seems like Brown is in no mood to end the public feud, as he went the extra mile to call out the vet analyst on social media, yet again.

Standing by his statement, Brown posted several images from his historic finals MVP win and Friday’s parade on Instagram. While the post was initially only captioned “State Your Source”, JB decided to re-edit his caption just to personally tag Stephen A. Smith, putting the ESPN employee in the spotlight again!

And this whole ordeal began nearly a month ago when Smith, during a segment on First Take, read out a message from an anonymous source on live TV stating, “It’s not so much that he (Brown) is underrated, it’s just that he’s just not liked because of his ‘I’m better than you attitude.’” With the statement portraying a negative perception of Brown’s image around the league and claiming that his ego is what has hampered his marketability, the Cs superstar demanded Stephen A. to source his comment. And with the constant mentions of that incident after winning the title, be it the t-shirt at the parade or the latest IG tag, JB seems hellbent on getting out the name from Smith.

Stephen A. Smith’s response to Jaylen Brown’s callout

While Jaylen Brown continues to poke Stephen A., the veteran analyst is unlikely to give away any information about his sources as he clearly stated on The Stephen A. Smith Show, “State your source? That’s not gonna happen. It’ll never happen.” In the media industry, the said anonymous sources are where the journalists and insiders get a lot of their information from, and it is nearly impossible that they will ever disclose who the sources are. Moreover, Stephen A. had nothing but love for Jaylen Brown and claimed that his intentions of bringing up that quote on First Take might have been misconstrued by the Celtics superstar.

“If you’re Jaylen Brown and you are watching, could you please do me a favor and go back and listen to what I said? And truly inhale and dissect what I was saying. I wasn’t saying they were right, I was saying they were wrong, but you needed to be aware of the fact that some people out there saying this about you,” Smith said. However, JB was not the only person in Boston who kept the receipts ready for after they won the title. As it turns out, the entire Celtics organization took notice when multiple analysts and former players picked the Mavs to win the finals. Following their win, the Celtics dropped a video on their IG with a compilation of many people predicting them to lose, including Stephen A. Smith, Shaq, Udonis Haslem, and more, as a way to silence the critics. And Jayson Tatum shared the video saying, “Experts”.  Who do you think is in the right in this feud between Stephen A. and Jaylen Brown?