The third night of “Players Only” broadcasts on TNT this season showcased a little raw emotion, albeit because Kevin McHale didn’t know his microphone was on.
During the second quarter of Tuesday’s Celtics victory in Philadelphia over the revamped Sixers, McHale — calling the game with Jim Jackson as part of the national network’s weekly handing over of its broadcasts to former players — referred to an unidentified person as a “d—khead.” At the time, the screen showed mercurial Sixer Jimmy Butler talking with Philly assistant coach Billy Lange, but McHale told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he wasn’t referring to Butler.