But the Boston-based commentator for NBC Sports didn’t believe he would be the only one to have that insight.Scalabrine talked with ESPN’s Jorge Sedano during the Tuesday episode of his SiriusXM program, The Starting Lineup, which he co-hosts with Frank Isola.
A day earlier, Sedano had openly expressed his displeasure with the former Celtics forward’s allegation. Scalabrine clarified that he had no idea his opinion would become well known. And he thinks that it only did so because Jaylen Brown, a top player for the Celtics, chose not to speak to the media after the game.
“The only thing I would say, where I ended up standing on an island by myself was it was covered poorly. I was nudging this thing along and I was supposed to be like one-fifth of the story, but Jaylen Brown did not talk after the game,” Scalabrine said. “[Celtics coach] Joe Mazzulla was asked about it and they ended the media session. And of course the Miami Heat media aren’t going to bring it up. All I need was one guy to co-sign with me. I got no co-signers. Which, by the way, I might end up with no co-signers in this whole thing.”
To Scalabrine’s point, he hasn’t found much support for his take. In addition to neither Brown nor Mazzulla Notoriety Boston sports homer Bill Simmons remarked on it, saying he didn’t think Martin’s foul was a dirty play. It appears that the NBA concurs because, after another analysis, the league decided not to improve Martin’s foul.
The remainder of Scalabrine and Isola’s chat with Sedano was generally civil, unless you were one of the Miami Heat beat reporters, who made a few rude remarks throughout the session. All parties concerned seem to have moved past the “controversy” surrounding Game 1 and are now concentrating on the remaining games in what most predict to be a non-competitive first-round series.
