Boston Celtics release photos of Black Lives Matter jerseys, including Jaylen Browns Liberation jersey & m – MassLive.com

The Boston Celtics released photos of their jerseys for the bubble on Wednesday, bearing messages related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Several of the NBAs approved slogans are represented. Jayson Tatum and Daniel Theis went with Black Lives Matter, while Jaylen Brown chose Liberation. Both Tacko Fall and Vincent Poirier chose Egalite, which is French for equality. Both Enes Kanter and Marcus Smart will wear Freedom. Robert Williams went with Respect Us. Gordon Hayward opted for Education Reform.

Brown told reporters earlier this month that he was considering wearing nothing on the back of his jersey -- no name or message at all. That idea was originally suggested by Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler.

What I thought was clever with that was the potential of not having anything was playing for the people that we dont get to see every single day or we dont hear their names, Brown said. We hear Breonna Taylor, we hear Philando Castile, we hear Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin. We hear all those names that we hear in the media because somebody was lucky enough to have a cell phone, but what about the people who didnt have the cell phone available at the time and they experienced police brutality, they experienced social stratification and education or not getting help in healthcare? There are so many different things that go unnoticed and its bigger than what we see now. I think police brutality is just the tip of the iceberg. Being able to have an empty space and playing for some of those people that we dont know their names and we may not ever know their names, I think thats powerful too.

Smart said he wished for more options, but he wanted to support the movement.

Like I said, I would have loved to have the option to choose, but I still wanted to show that I still have care for the cause and I still want to keep awareness going and stuff like that, Smart said. So Im going to put Freedom on the back of my jersey.

Both Kemba Walker and Semi Ojeleye, meanwhile, opted for Love us.

With everything Ive seen going on in the world, the root of it is hate, Ojeleye said. When it boils down to it at the end of the day we have to treat people right, and the only way to do that is to love people, regardless of skin color, ethnicity, where they are from, what they believe in, we have to treat people the right way, and to do that, you have to love them. So thats what I believe God wants us to do, thats why Im going to put that on the back, and hopefully we can continue that conversation until we all get it right.

Heres the full list.

The Celtics open their seeding games against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday.