CelticsBlog · 4 days ago
Payton Pritchard, Paul George preview highly anticipated Celtics-76ers matchup
The Celtics will face an old friend when they take on the 76ers on Tuesday night: Jaylen Brown, who spent a decade in Boston before being traded to Philadelphia on Tuesday.
And Payton Pritchard, one of Brown’s longest-tenured teammates, looks forward to the match-up.
“I definitely had a lot of good memories with JB,” he said in front of an unusually large media corp at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. “Obviously, he was there from the moment I got drafted, and we had a good competitive battle. He pushed me to get better, so I’m definitely appreciative of that. And then, as far as tonight, two really great teams going at it, and there’s nothing better than that.”