Boston Celtics beat reporter rips Nick Wright’s reaction to Luka Doncic-Devin Booker scuffle

The Athletic’s Boston Celtics reporter, Jay King, wasn’t a fan of FOX Sports host Nick Wright’s reaction to the Luka Doncic-Devin Booker scuffle during a 130-126 victory for the Suns over the Mavericks on March 5.

Doncic and Booker went face to face and reportedly exchange unpleasantries after the latter mocked the former for missing a layup attempt in the closing seconds of Phoenix’s down-to-the-wire win in Dallas.

Wright didn’t believe Booker had a right to say anything to Doncic considering the Mavericks’ elimination of the Suns from the 2022 postseason, but King rejected the premise of the FOX host in a quote tweet:

Boston Celtics reporter Jay King could have had this problem with Nick Wright’s thought process

Not to put words in the mouth of a man on top of the journalism world in regards to the Celtics, but a potential problem King could have had with Wright’s thinking is that it’s an obviously biased take from someone that has a wide audience on a national scale.

Wright has 549,000+ followers on Twitter and an average of 66,000 viewers for First Things First on FOX Sports 1, and thus has reach with his takes. It’s irresponsible to perpetuate the sort of thinking that a player should lose a defensive tactic in the sport of basketball merely because of a single loss.

NBA news coverage leans into the sensational conflicts more so than most other sports, and there does tend to be very dense discourse surrounding the most-talked about subjects — I’m thinking the endless and oftentimes logicless G.O.A.T. debates surrounding LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and sometimes Kobe Bryant for some reason.

The Celtics have largely been able to avoid being a regular in this season’s press circus even after having one of the most scandalous offseason stories in the Ime Udoka suspension and eventual departure. The less the team is talked about on FOX Sports and ESPN, the better.