When Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown spoke with reporters after Sunday’s All-Star Game in Inglewood, Calif., the topic quickly went from basketball to an incident between Brown and the Beverly Hills Police Department a night earlier.

And Brown’s account of events stands in stark contrast to those of the Beverly Hills PD.

On Saturday night, police were called to a home where Brown was hosting what he called a “panel” — an event for his personal brand, 741, and Oakley, of which Brown says he is a brand partner.

But when police showed up, they said the event had to end because a permit for the event was previously denied.

“On Saturday, February 14, the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) responded to an event taking place at a private residence in the Trousdale neighborhood of (Beverly Hills),” the BHPD told The Boston Globe in statement Sunday. “An event permit had been applied for and denied by the City due to previous violations associated with events at the address.

“Despite the fact that the permit was denied, organizers still chose to proceed with inviting hundreds of guests knowing that it was not allowed to occur. BHPD responded and shut down the unpermitted event.”

The claim about the permit was one of the issues that angered Brown.

“That was not true,” Brown told reporters. “We didn’t need a permit because the owner of the house, that was his space. We were family friends. He opened up the festivities to us so we didn’t have to. We never applied for one. … I didn’t have to pay for the house or anything. They just opened it up. I had to pay for the build-out, but it was hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted for an event that was supposed to be positive.”

Saturday night, a video showing Brown speaking with a police officer at the house was posted to social media. In the video, Brown is seen repeatedly asking why the event was being shut down, with the officer said “the City” was shutting down the event.

“(I’m) in LA, we’re just trying to have an event, a panel, talking about culture, talking about future, talking about leadership, and for whatever reason I feel like we’re being targeted,” Brown told the camera.

Back at the All-Star Game, Brown said the house belonged to Jim Jannard, the founder of Oakley, and that he did not have to pay to use the house for the event.

“I’m offended by Beverly Hills, by the statement they put out, like we applied for something and didn’t get it and we did it anyway,” Brown added. “Like we were insubordinate. I know how to follow the rules. … It just seemed like somebody, you know, didn’t want whatever we had going on, to go on. Because out of everyone to be doing something (in the neighborhood), I was the only one that gets shut down.”

During the interview, Brown repeated that several hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent setting up the event, and that the owner of the house is considering filing a lawsuit.

“It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth,” he added. “I don’t think the BPDH made the right call here. The statement they put out was not accurate.”

–Field Level Media

MILAN, Italy — U.S. Figure Skating did not appeal Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ score from the ice dance final, which drew the ire of some fans and forced the veteran Americans to settle for silver at the Milan Cortina Games.

Chock and Bates, who had been undefeated all season, said they felt like they had skated a winning performance in Wednesday’s free dance.

Their fans agreed, and created an online petition calling for the International Skating Union (ISU) and International Olympic Committee to review the scoring, which led to France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron claiming gold.

U.S. Figure Skating praised the pair’s “world-class” performances in Northern Italy, which included playing a key role in securing the U.S. a gold medal in the team event earlier in the Games.

“There has been a lot of thoughtful, and at times emotional, discussion about the ice dance competition in Milan,” U.S. Figure Skating CEO Matt Farrell said in a statement on Sunday.

“Working together with Madi and Evan after the Games, we will have thoughtful and intentional discussions about the best way to support them and the future of the sport,” he said.

“For now, we plan to join them in supporting the success of the U.S. Figure Skating team in Milan.”

While U.S. Figure Skating’s statement did not explicitly say it would not appeal the scoring, the 24-hour window of time for an appeal to be requested has passed.

Beaudry and Cizeron won the gold with a total of 225.82 points, while the Americans earned 224.39.

Much of the outrage stemmed from the fact French judge Jezabel Dabouis favored Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron by nearly eight points over the three-time world champion Americans in the free dance.

The ISU on Friday said it had “full confidence in the scores given,” adding that multiple layers of review are built into the judging system to reduce discrepancies and ensure fairness.

Chock and Bates added their silver medal to two team gold medals, including the one they played a key role in capturing for the U.S. at the Milan Cortina Games.

–Reuters, special to Field Level Media