Former Celtics champion calls out flagrant foul on Grant Williams

Former Boston Celtics bench guard Eddie House, a crucial part of the club’s 2008 title team, has spoken out about ex-Celtics power forward Grant Williams’ glaring second foul on All-NBA Boston power forward Jayson Tatum during their first of two back to fights. -back meetings between Boston and Williams’ Charlotte Hornets last night. In that 124-109 Celtics victory, Williams pushed Tatum away and sent the 6-foot-10 superstar to the ground. The force of Williams’ push also sent him to the ground.

After the game, another Celtics All-Star former teammate of Williams, swingman Jaylen Brown, called out the moment.

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For his part, House hardly views what happened as a basketball game.

“When I was young, I was told this: that every brother is not a brother. And just because we might be cool, there’s something there… I mean, that’s not even a ball game. That’s something that That play wasn’t a basketball game, and it actually could have done something crazy to Jayson Tatum, thank God it wasn’t one of those (cases),” House said.

After an ice-cold shooting performance in the 2023 playoffs for Boston, Williams signed a four-year, $54 million sign-and-trade deal with the Dallas Mavericks. But he was so disappointing there too that he was referred to Charlotte at the February 2024 trade deadline. Both of his former teams would meet in last season’s NBA Finals, with the Celtics prevailing over the Mavericks in five games.

“We know this wasn’t a basketball game. And just like Jaylen said, he knows better than that. He does – or maybe he doesn’t! Maybe he just thinks, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’ , and it doesn’t matter.’ It’s certain ways of setting the tone in the game to be physical, and it’s certain ways of being borderline dirty… and that was right along the lines of being dirty,” House added. “That’s something I don’t think anyone should condone.”

The Celtics and Hornets will face off again on Saturday night at 6:00 PM ET. Fans on both sides will be watching Williams with bated breath.

Williams, a bench player on a 2-3 Hornets team eager to make the postseason, scored just six points on 2-for-6 shooting from the floor in his 30:24 of action, while grabbing seven rebounds and passing for three assists and a steal.

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