Payton Pritchard Rumors

Yet, while Celtics fans celebrated every half-court attempt, it would appear members of the Mavericks roster were growing frustrated. During a recent livestream with Jaylen Brown, former Celtics guard Kyrie Irving revealed that he’d considered throwing a punch at Pritchard during that series. “We were going to halftime,” Irving said. “I ain’t gonna lie to you, I thought about swinging. One time, just to see where he was at. I thought about swinging one time.”

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Jay King: Payton Pritchard on players who wouldn’t launch a heave because they were protecting their shooting percentages: “Soft mentally. Worrying about a shooting percentage. It’s very weak. You care about your individual shooting percentage more than winning. That’s so soft.”

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“This is the Boston Celtics,” Payton Pritchard explained to HoopsHype following Boston’s season-ending loss to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. “We’re going to compete for a championship. There’s only one standard. That’s the standard we’ll always live by.”

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Bobby Manning: Payton Pritchard says he hopes #Celtics can figure out the Horford situation. They need Horford back, he said.

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Bobby Manning: Pritchard: “We’ll put a good team together…people will elevate their roles.” pic.x.com/IxdsZJoV0a

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Bobby Manning: Pritchard: “It’s more motivating to try to get back on top.” “I’ll do everything in my power to help the team accomplish that again.” Said they’re not resting on being 1x champs. pic.x.com/zmViNhwJHa

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Jared Weiss: Payton Pritchard said he and the Celtics talked to Jayson Tatum at the team hotel when they returned to NY: “We didn’t talk about basketball. That stuff is bigger than basketball now. … The basketball side, we’ll handle that. Just wanted to check in as a friend.”

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Gary Washburn: Without Jayson Tatum, #Celtics roll to a 127-102 win over #Knicks and are money for those who bet the BOS (-4.5) line. Derrick White 34, Jaylen Brown 26, Payton Pritchard 17, Jrue Holiday 14, Al Horford 12, Luke Kornet 10, 9 reb, 7 blk; Karl-Anthony Towns 24, Jalen Brunson 22, Mikal Bridges 19, Miles McBride 11.

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Bobby Manning: Payton Pritchard to me about the message Jayson Tatum sent the #Celtics: “We haven’t seen him, he’s been in New York, but he sent us a nice message talking about the game and stuff. We gotta come out, compete and win the game for him. All we’re worried about is winning Game 5 now.”

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While playing the entire second quarter, Pritchard scored six more points to give him 13 for the first half. Like the rest of his team, he wanted to play with a carefree spirit. “We watched areas where we could clean up a little bit, but it was really just being more confident and letting it fly,” Pritchard said. “Don’t second-guess a good shot. You come off a ball screen, it’s there, who cares what the outside world is saying? ‘We shoot too many 3s’ – everybody’s always saying that. But if you believe in your shot and you’re able to hit it, then take it confidently. So that’s really just the biggest thing.”

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Pritchard wound up playing a postseason-high 35 minutes Saturday afternoon and made the most of his extra time, nailing four 3-pointers in a row after his shaky start. Mazzulla stuck with Pritchard, he said, because Jrue Holiday got into foul trouble. “Our sub-patterns are always flexible,” Mazzulla said. ”Tonight, Jrue had three fouls and Payton was good. At times, you go with what makes the most sense. Just the flexibility of what we were able to do, but he played really well on both ends of the floor for us. There was some foul trouble there, so we were able to go to some different stuff.”

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Fred Katz: FINAL: Celtics 115, Knicks 93. Celtics now trail Knicks 2-1 in the series. • Payton Pritchard 23 & 4, 5-10 3Ps • Jayson Tatum 22-9-7 • Jaylen Brown 19-6-5 • Derrick White 17 & 5 • Jalen Brunson 27 pts, 7 asts Celtics shot 20-40 from deep. Game 4 scheduled for Monday night.

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Brown, who represents several NBA stars, including Hawks players Trae Young and Caris LeVert, is being considered for a top executive role in Atlanta’s front office, sources told RG. His client list includes Donovan Mitchell, Jaren Jackson Jr., OG Anunoby, Myles Turner, Jordan Poole, D’Angelo Russell, Nic Claxton, and Payton Pritchard.

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Bobby Manning: Payton Pritchard: "It's really like a must-win game. We know that. We gotta take care of home court tonight. We'll come out with a lot of energy, especially after watching the Pacers-Cleveland game ... we let off the throttle last game up 20...we can't let stuff like that happen."

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