Boston forward Jayson Tatum was knocked to the ground during Friday evening's contest.
Though Tatum rose from the Spectrum Center floor unscathed, the play annoyed his Boston teammates—and they made no secret of their feelings after the game.
"That wasn't a basketball play. Grant knows better than that," forward Jaylen Brown said via writer John Karalis. "There's no place in the game for that. I thought JT and Grant were friends. I guess not." "He's just too damn big to be doing stuff like that," guard Derrick White added via Karalis; though Tatum is two inches taller than Williams, the latter has nearly 30 pounds on the former.
Jaylen Brown on Grant's flagrant foul: "That wasn't a basketball play. Grant knows better than that ... There's no place in the game for that. I thought JT and Grant were friends. I guess not.""I think it's moreso he didn't see me before anything else. I definitely make contact with the body before I reach," Williams said. "Definitely not intentional. Not trying to hurt him by any means.
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