BOSTON - Grant Williams didn’t play much against the Los Angeles Lakers. Brad Stevens shortened the Boston Celtics rotation to basically eight players for most of the night to match up against the Lakers size.

Williams actually only played a little more than five minutes, most of them in garbage time. But boy, were they some eventful minutes.

With 39 seconds left in the first half, Stevens sent Williams into the game. He almost immediately found himself switched onto LeBron James.

“I bet you your heart was to your feet,” Javonte Green said to Williams from his neighboring locker when he heard the questions.

“No," Williams countered. "I was just like ‘let’s get a stop.’ I was like ‘can we get a stop’ and next thing you know he missed it, so I felt pretty good. "

The Celtics did, in fact, get a stop. After he was done playing it off, he admitted the moment was a bit cooler, and more terrifying, than he let on."

“I’m young, so being 21 years old now, You think about it, I was watching LeBron, so for sure, you’re definitely happy,” he said. “You get to check and be like ‘oh shit, I’m guarding LeBron. And next thing you know, you get a switch, and it’s isolation, and you’re like ‘awwww dear, just don’t be like Jusuf Nurkic and get dunked on.’”

He managed to avoid that, but he did not avoid getting swept up into a moment with the injured DeMarcus Cousins, who was taunting Williams late in the game. Williams hit a 3-pointer, then gave Cousins a thumbs up, which earned him his first technical foul as a pro.

What did Cousins say to draw that reaction?

“I’m not saying nothing, because I’m not getting more added on to it," he said. "I’m a rookie, I’m not getting my money taken away.”

The tech alone will cost Williams $2,500, which is huge chunk for a rookie. His salary works out to be about $29,000 per game before taxes. For perspective, Kemba Walker’s is more than $399,000 before taxes. Williams hopes to get it rescinded, and if he does, he’ll get the best of both worlds because he won’t lose any money and he still gets to brag about it.

“The tech is from Tony Brothers, so that’s pretty cool too,” Williams said. "Like, Scott Foster, Tony Brothers, you see those guys in the NBA Finals in the past, my dad’s friend is Eddie Rush who was a referee so I used to hear stories. So It’s like, eh, but then you’re also ‘that’s like 25-hundred dollars. That’s a lot of money. No. I’m a rookie. Don’t do that.”

A win over LeBron, a win in his first Celtics-Lakers rivalry game, and a tech from Tony Brothers. Not bad for five minutes of work.

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