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Losing to the Knicks feels like death Jaylen Brown Reacts to Celtics Being Eliminated · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Injury.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's things as it should. Uh. You know anytime,
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  Speaker 2: you know, losing stings, especially finishing your season like this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but uh, you know, it just wasn't our year.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like?
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  Speaker 2: Say it again, what do you feel like this year
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  Speaker 2: as well? It just kind of feel that way. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't our year because we we we
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  Speaker 2: lost tonight, that's but you know, oh yeah, battling through injury.
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  Speaker 2: We have some ups and downs X Y and Z.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I'm proud of our guys that came
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  Speaker 2: out and fought. So, you know, still have a lot
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  Speaker 2: to hang our head about just tonight. Just unfortunately it
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  Speaker 2: sucks nothing to talk about right now. But we'll see
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  Speaker 2: how you know, the next steps and you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of sit back and process and and see what the
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  Speaker 2: next steps are.
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  Speaker 1: You know what this summer does that take time to
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  Speaker 1: go after.
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  Speaker 2: He takes on, you know, sit back and kind of
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  Speaker 2: figure it out. But you know, I'm excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: things didn't go your way this year. Things didn't go
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  Speaker 2: our way this year, and it's unfortunate, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we hold our head up regardless losing to the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it feels like death. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was always taught that there's life after there's life after death.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll we'll get ready for whatever's next, whatever's next
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  Speaker 2: in the journey. I'll be ready.
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  Speaker 1: For the season obviously, and injury things.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate what you feel back, Yeah, completely, you know it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, finishing it may feels weird, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: definitely not something we were prepared for obviously, you know
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  Speaker 2: Jason his injury, et cetera. I'm sure there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot to process, just as everything you know, this
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  Speaker 2: whole year. But you know, we we we'll meet, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take a couple of days as hard like processing
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  Speaker 2: it all right now in real time you're throwing all
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  Speaker 2: these questions at me. But you know, I'm happy that
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  Speaker 2: our group, you know, stayed together. You know, it was
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  Speaker 2: an honor to share the locker room with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these guys. You know, it hurt to see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the emotions of all the guys, you know, being the
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  Speaker 2: leader and you know, not being able to carry everybody
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  Speaker 2: to the Promised Land. It sucks, but it just wasn't
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  Speaker 2: our year. I thought we had a great year. I
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  Speaker 2: thought we had a great year. Joe prepared us as
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  Speaker 2: best he could. You know, we we had a great mindset,
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  Speaker 2: we had a great mentality. We just we had some
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate events. We had some injuries and and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: No excuses, but you know, it just wasn't our year
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Uh. You know, KP has been a large
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  Speaker 2: part of our success, our recent success last year, even
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  Speaker 2: going into this year in the playoffs, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: made it wasn't feeling his best, but we appreciate him
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  Speaker 2: getting out there. And KP's as a tough guy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a he has a great mentality, a great approach
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  Speaker 2: about hisself and his game and his body. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a tough process for everybody, but you know KP,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from an injury perspective, he was available all
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  Speaker 2: year long. You know, he helped us all year long,
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  Speaker 2: and it just unfortunate that it ended this way. You're
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  Speaker 2: used to not winning the championship, that's the lord, right,
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  Speaker 2: So last year you guys do it with feeling.
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  Speaker 1: What does it feel like now coming up short from
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  Speaker 1: here too? For what was what what it feels different
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  Speaker 1: about not winning now now that you actually know what
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  Speaker 1: it's like.
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  Speaker 2: It should, it feels the same. Man, it almost feels worse.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were trying to do something special, go
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  Speaker 2: back to back. We had a great group. Uh we
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  Speaker 2: played well all year, so I think this probably stings
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  Speaker 2: even more. We just had some unfortunate events, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some injuries. You know, personally, I had some stuff that
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  Speaker 2: I was persevering through and it just you know, it
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  Speaker 2: caught up to us.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: To play what made this continue on? Just such a
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  Speaker 2: joint play with just a bunch of great guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of you know, great selfless guys about winning.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you know, put their bodies on the line,
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  Speaker 2: that came into work every day that you know, just
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  Speaker 2: just added to the group. Yeah, no situations, no headaches,
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  Speaker 2: you know, no turmoil or anything like that. And you
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  Speaker 2: know that's most important that our group was. We had
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of great days together. It just it didn't
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  Speaker 2: we didn't win in there.
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  Speaker 1: Just do you kind of knock back to do you
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  Speaker 1: have you served as motivation?
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of a it's a bad.
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  Speaker 1: Are motivating.
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  Speaker 2: The franchise putting.
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  Speaker 1: Back this is this could be.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely I don't I don't make no excuses Obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: tough the way we went out like tonight, but uh,
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  Speaker 2: the way we finished the year personally, when I finished
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  Speaker 2: the year, you know, persevering through some you know, some
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  Speaker 2: physical stuff that I was battling through. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: proud of our group. I thought that, you know, we fought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we was in a lot of battles, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot to be excited for. This journey is
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  Speaker 2: not the end. It's not the end for me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to coming back stronger, you know, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just take this with the chin up, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Boston, you know, it's it looks gloomy right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously with JT being now and us you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of ending the year. But it's a lot to
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  Speaker 2: look forward for. It's a lot to look forward to,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I want, uh the city to feel excited
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  Speaker 2: about that. Like we this is not the end, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to what's next there.
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  Speaker 1: You