After profitable their first championship collectively, Jayson Tatum mirrored on what Jaylen Brown went via listening to his identify in commerce rumors over time. Tatum acknowledged that he by no means needed to undergo that personally because the Boston Celtics have been clearly by no means going to commerce him, whereas Brown’s standing was rather less clear.
“It will trouble me,” Tatum mentioned. “Not speaking from a pedestal, however I did not essentially know what that felt like. However I may simply think about all of the exhausting work that he put in. I noticed it on daily basis. Even the strongest-minded particular person, that will have an effect on you in some unspecified time in the future. So I all the time felt for him in that regard.
“I feel now that possibly I may have been higher. I by no means mentioned an excessive amount of. I all the time have stayed out of that.”
Brown’s future with the Celtics was clarified final offseason when he signed a supermax extension.
“The entire Jayson-Jaylen dialogue within the nationwide media is laughable to all of us,” Stevens mentioned. “I feel Jaylen mentioned it finest together with his line just a few weeks in the past the place he mentioned, ‘I haven’t got the time to offer a f—.'”
