Jayson Tatum-Jaylen Brown the latest Boston sports grudge match

The Boston Globe · Dan Shaughnessy · 2026-11-06 10:00 UTC

Memo to coaches Joe Mazzulla (Celtics) and Nick Nurse (76ers): Let there be no load management for Tuesday's game in Philadelphia.

Picked-up pieces while wishing Tom Brady a sincere welcome home Sunday at Gillette . . .

⋅ The Celtics are in Philadelphia Tuesday, which means we finally get to see Jayson Tatum playing basketball against Jaylen Brown in a regular-season NBA game.

I haven’t been this fired up for an old-fashioned Boston sports grudge match since Roger Clemens came to Fenway in a Blue Jays uniform for the first time in 1997 and glared in the direction of Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette while coming off the mound after striking out 16 batters in a 3-1 victory.

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