Jaylen Brown credits Harden shiv, Garden crowd with energy shift

Given star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown had gone out of his way to call out the TD Garden home crowd ahead of Game 7, it’s probably a good thing the Georgia native taking a forearm shiv to the face from James Harden got the arena in a frenzy to help lift Brown and his teammates to a decisive, 112-88 win. “Nothing like a shot to the face to wake you right up,” said the Cal alum postgame.

“It sparked the Garden,” he continued. “I called out the Garden out last game and what a way to respond. The energy in the building was through the roof! It was amazing.”

“Everybody that was in the building, and anybody that was cheering for the Celtics, we could feel that energy tonight,” Brown continued.

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“It definitely carried over, so we are definitely going to need some more of that going forward. That was fun — that was a great basketball environment.”

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