Jaylen Brown gave NBA fans plenty to laugh at when he bought into a Philadelphia 76ers prank and turned a simple stopwatch challenge into something far bigger.
The setup was straightforward enough: the 76ers had players try to stop a timer at exactly three seconds, without knowing they were actually being shown a pre-saved screenshot. Most of them celebrated as if they had nailed it. Brown, though, took it to another level.
“It’s timing,” Brown said. “It’s like, this a divine thing, you know what I mean?
You gotta be connected. They’re not connected like me.
Right on the money.”
He was feeling pretty good about himself right up until the reveal. Once he learned it was a screenshot, the 29-year-old could only laugh sheepishly at being pranked.
Fans wasted no time piling on Brown for the “divine” line.
“It’s a divine thing I’m crying🤣🤣😭,” one fan wrote.
“JB trusted so much 😭😭,” another said.
“JB 😂 not everything that deep bro,” a fan added.
“JB is the most transcendent human of all time 🤣😅,” one fan joked.
“JB been around Bron too much,” another fan said.
LeBron James was one of the few 76ers we didn’t see in the prank. Brown and James are now part of a Philadelphia team that is being talked about as one of the title favorites heading into the 2026-27 season. James chose to go to Philadelphia, while Brown did not.
Brown’s move to the 76ers came as a shock after the Boston Celtics traded him away. He said he threw his phone away when he found out.
That trade closed the door on a run that had Brown spending 10 seasons with the Celtics, where the 76ers were one of his main rivals. He had plenty of battles with Philadelphia over the years, and now he has to get used to being on the other side.
The five-time All-Star is coming off the best season of his career, putting up 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 1.0 steals, and 0.4 blocks per game in 2025-26. He finished sixth in MVP voting, which made Boston’s return for him look even stranger.
The Celtics received Paul George, two first-round picks, and two second-round picks in the deal.
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