Did Bam Adebayo mock Jaylen Brown with quote after Game 1? originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The Boston Celtics fell to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Heat big man Bam Adebayo may have added insult to injury after Tuesday night’s showdown.

Adebayo’s postgame press conference seemed innocent on the surface, but there’s a chance he threw some shade the Celtics’ way. Asked about Miami’s dominant third quarter, he made some familiar comments that aren’t sitting well with C’s fans.

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“I feel like our energy shifted,” Adebayo said. “That was the biggest key. Our energy shifted. We started getting stops on defense and running, getting in transition and the crowd got into it.”

Why is that quote such a big deal, you ask? Well, it could be a coincidence, but it sure seems Adebayo is mocking Celtics star Jaylen Brown‘s famous “the energy is about to shift” tweet from earlier in the season. The tweet has been referenced as the turning point in the Celtics’ 2021-22 season, and Boston has since turned it into a mantra.

Even if Adebayo meant nothing by it, you can bet the Celtics will use his quote as bulletin-board material going forward. They’ll take all the extra motivation they can get following their brutal 118-107 loss in Game 1.

Adebayo had 10 points, four rebounds and four blocks on Tuesday night. Brown finished with 24 points (7-17 FG) and 10 boards.

The Celtics will hope the energy shifts back in their favor for Game 2, which is set for 8:30 p.m. ET Thursday at FTX Arena. Coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. with Celtics Pregame Live right here on NBC Sports Boston

Don’t expect a reunion of Coach’s Corner anytime soon.

In a short video tweeted out by the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington, disgraced former host Don Cherry declared the friendship between him and his co-host Ron MacLean over and done with and said he can no longer envision any healing of wounds.

“No, I don’t think we’ll ever be friends again,” Cherry said. “We can’t be friends again. It’s too bad because we were on the air, and we used to have fun – and I mean, it was so fun. Coach’s Corner was fun.”

The longstanding intermission show on Hockey Night in Canada ended in 2019 when the then-85-year-old Cherry went on a racist rant, targeting Canadian immigrants for not wearing the red poppy on Remembrance Day.

After being fired, Cherry did not apologize for his remarks, and viewed his termination as a form of censorship.

“I have just learned I’ve been fired by Sportsnet for comments made on Coach’s Corner Nov. 9,” Cherry said. “No problem. …I know what I said and I meant it. Everybody in Canada should wear a poppy to honour our fallen soldiers. …To keep my job, I cannot be turned into a tamed robot.”

MacLean and Cherry began hosting the segment that aired during the first intermission of the first game every Saturday night on CBC – and later on Sportsnet – in 1986. The comment that earned Cherry unemployment was not the first hateful thing he said on air. He has an extensive list of controversial statements targeting the Indigenous community, women, climate change, and also made xenophobic remarks about European hockey players.

Shortly after his partner’s firing, MacLean insisted that he still did not believe Cherry was racist and apologized for naming him in a post-termination statement that was broadcasted.

“What I know is that we made the mistake … I mean, no,” he said in November 2019. “Don, I think, has started to come around … he knows we projected an idea, an attitude or a behaviour on someone. He knows, I feel like in what I’ve listened to, he’s trying now to admit to that.

“If I have one regret, it’s that when I apologized on the Sunday night, I used Don’s name and, if I am sitting at home watching it, that would hurt me. That might have created some resolve in Don not to apologize.”

MacLean still regularly hosts intermission segments on Sportsnet’s NHL broadcasts.

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The NFL schedule can’t please everyone all the time. One team, the New York Giants, and their co-owner, John Mara, are particularly upset about how 2022 will play out.

The Giants will be home to the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. The game is on Sept. 26, which coincides with the second night of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

The Giants requested the NFL avoid scheduling their Week 3 game this season late on Sunday or Monday night. The contest with the Cowboys means Jewish fans observing the holiday will not be able to attend.

“I am well aware of that and not happy about it,” John Mara, the Giants co-owner, told The New York Post on Tuesday. “I made my feelings known to the league as soon as I saw the schedule. We have always requested the league take the Jewish High Holy Days into consideration when formulating our schedule. Not sure why it happened this year.”

A league exec, SVP of broadcasting Howard Katz, said Mara did make the request.

“We are never able to accommodate every request,” said Katz, who heads up the panel that puts the schedule together.

“Mr. Mara absolutely this year and every year when the Jewish holidays fall on football days, he always asks to avoid the Jewish holidays. He certainly did. In this particular case, we were not able to accommodate that request.”

The Jets, who share MetLife Stadium with the Giants, put in a similar request and the league obliged by having them play the Cincinnati Bengals at home with a 1 o’clock kickoff.

The game will be over by sundown when Rosh Hashanah begins.

Katz thinks the situation was unavoidable.

“But this is on me, this is not on John Mara. There are flaws in every schedule, we’ve never seen a perfect schedule,” he told The Post. “This was a flaw. We were gonna play a Monday night game so Jewish fans somewhere were going to be conflicted and have to make decisions on whether or not to attend the game or watch the game or not. It turned out that it was really unfortunate that it happened in New York. But it was going to happen somewhere.”