Patrick Mahomes gets first disappointment with Marquise “Hollywood” Brown over Kyrie Irving

Patrick Mahomes looks to spur the Kansas City Chiefs on to a sensational third Super Bowl in a row in 2024 and he’s got the wide receiver he desperately needs in Marquise Hollywood Brown, but if one thing is already clear, they don’t see eye to eye on the NBA as they have a fight over Kyrie Irving.

It came after Hollywood Brown, who signed from the Arizona Cardinals, headed to watch the Los Angeles Clippers take on the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA’s First Round of the playoffs as Luka Doncic’s team eliminated the Californians with a 114-101 victory, with Kyrie Irving starring.

“Watching Kyrie up close,” Hollywood Brown posted to X.com, formerly Twitter. “He really hoops like me fr [GOAT emoji].”

That’s a reference to Christian McCaffrey’s Madden 24 Invitational, when Irving embarrassed the Clippers’ Russell Westbrook before making sure he could back up the talk in Game Six at the American Airlines Center in Texas.

But Mahomes was for from impressed as he quote tweeted the post on Elon Musk-owned platform with a GIF showing sheer disappointment at the post from his latest wide receiver, who will link up with Travis Kelce and Rashee Rice in Missouri.

Brown then moved to calm the waters by responding, “Chillllllll,” with laughing emojis in what was a light-hearted exchange between the two football players, and nothing serious going forwards.

Irving’s clutch plays

When the Mavericks hand out a big loss to a rival, it’s usually the Slovenian Doncic who gets the praise and proves to be the instrumental decision maker and whilst he was at his usual standard, it was one of his colleagues who stole the limelight.

Doncic, of course, hit 28 points, 13 assists and seven rebounds, which shows how insane the showing from Irving actually was. The 32-year-old 2011 overall first pick racked up an astonishing 30 points, six rebounds and four assists in 42 minutes as they progressed to the next phase of the NBA Playoffs.

There they will do battle with the Western Conference leaders, the Oklahoma City Thunder, with the first game getting underway on May 8 at 21:30 ET, or 18:30 PT.