Brown: Celtics 'feels like death'

Jaylen Brown is confident that the Boston Celtics will have a life after death who saw their reign as the NBA champions on Friday.

The Boston Celtics feel “like death” after stopping her NBA championship defense from the New York Knicks, although Jaylen Brown is sure that they will recover.

The Knicks reached the final of the Eastern Conference on Friday for the first time in 25 years and rolled past the Celtics with a routine victory of 119-81 in game 6.

This brought them a 4-2 series victory over the Champions 2023-24, whose hopes in game 4 had been shown a monumental blow when Jayson Tatum needed his Achilles tendon.

He was now able to miss the entirety of 2025-26, and the team faces an unsafe future with a group led by investor Bill Chisholm to complete a takeover before the next season.

After the defeat on Friday, Brown, who scored 20 points but had seven sales before he floated out at the end of the third quarter, said: “The end in May feels strange.

“It is definitely not something we have prepared for. Things are not made accessible to us this year, and it is unhappy.

“But we keep our head up. Losing against the Knicks feels like death.

“But I was always taught that there is a life after death, so we will be prepared for what is next on the journey.”

Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each scored 23 points for the Knicks, who will now take the Indiana Pacers for a place in the NBA final.

They were two of six New York players in double -digit figures, so that the Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said that the Celtics lost to a better team.

“We came across a great team. They have to give their hat on the kinks,” said Mazzulla. “You surpassed us. You played better.”

The Celtics Guard Derrick White added: “You will never get again this season. You will never have the same team again.

“There were some ups and some lows so obviously during the season, but at the moment it's just somehow down.”