Jaylen Brown put down a dunk that was rivaled in ferocity solely by Kevin Garnett’s response towards the Dallas Mavericks.
Brown sliced by two defenders, then took flight overtop of Maxi Kleber with three and a half minutes remaining within the second quarter. The poster dunk, which occurred proper in entrance of the Massive Ticket, elicited an enormous response from Garnett.
After baptizing Kleber, Brown dapped up Garnett, inflicting the TD Backyard to erupt on KG Day.
Right here’s the response from KG’s teammates, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, in attendance for his quantity retirement ceremony after the sport:
And one other look:
And now in slo-mo:
It was lovely symbolism to dap Garnett up close to the TD Backyard stanchion, the place KG’s pregame depth was most distinguished.
Following that dunk, the Celtics constructed on their lead, up 47-38 at halftime. Jayson Tatum leads the Celtics with 17. Brown has 7 factors and leads Boston with two assists.
