“Every hour we were there, the fire alarm in the hotel went off, there was no sleeping for 12 hours” - 4x NBA champion says he has nightmares about ‘Boston in June’, picks the Boston Celtics to win the title in 6 games
“He sounds like Andy Dalton, I want my guy to sound like Matt Stafford or Joe Burrow… You gotta know you’re great” - Colin Cowherd believes 3x All-Star is expressing self-doubt, says he wants more from him
“He just makes bad choices, bad decisions where you say ‘what are you doing?’… That’s just careless” - Skip Bayless says Boston Celtics star is “3000 miles away from being a superstar“
“You have a chance to grab Finals MVP and follow in the torch-passing legacy from Larry Bird to Paul Pierce” - Kevin Wildes says 3-time All-Star needs to have a legacy defining game, and ‘own the series’
“Sports media reacted to every single LeBron James moment in game as if it were legacy defining” - NBA analyst believes great players are allowed to have bad games after 3x All-Star’s recent struggles
“I do believe Jayson Tatum can win an MVP, I do believe he can be the best player on a championship winning team” - NBA analyst says Jayson Tatum has top-5 potential, believes his inconsistency is holding him back
“Jayson Tatum is a star with a role player’s confidence.… Steph never loses confidence, MJ, LeBron never lose confidence” - NBA analyst says the Boston Celtics play with the confidence of a runner up
“Both have of them have proven to be wildly inconsistent” - Skip Bayless believes the Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors are deeply flawed and psychologically vulnerable
"He was a game-worst (by far) minus-36 in 34 minutes. Superstar???" - Skip Bayless highly critical of Jayson Tatum during Game 2 against Warriors, highlights his 2-of-10 shooting on shots except 3s
Exclusive: "We've been counted out all year; Rightfully so" - Boston Celtics' coach Ime Udoka on continuing to be resilient, stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown also open up on coach's methods to excel
"We can't ease our way into the 3rd quarter. Wait till we down x amount of points to be like oh s**t we gotta figure it out” - 3-Time NBA All-Star opens up about Boston Celtics’ 3rd quarter struggles
Exclusive: "My mom passed; they flew all the way to Dallas to the funeral; That was for real, it wasn't no tactic" - Marcus Smart on the bond he shares with teammates Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and on using his dominant vocal presence to help Celtics
“If you’re that guy, if you’re that dude, if you’re the man, you just say ‘get out of the way, I got this’” - Skip Bayless says 3-time All-Star was pathetic vs the Golden State Warriors
“He’s not always forcing it, and that’s monumental for this team” - Jay Williams says Jayson Tatum’s performance in Game 1 of the NBA Finals showed his maturity and evolution as a player
"The message at the start of the fourth was: We’ve been here before; we know what it takes to overcome a deficit like that" - Jayson Tatum on Boston's mentality before their 4th quarter takeover in Game 1 of NBA Finals
"I don't expect to shoot that bad again, but if we're winning, I'll take it!" - Jayson Tatum reflects on poor 3-for-17 shooting in Game 1 of NBA Finals after Celtics make epic comeback
"THE CELTICS SAID F**K YOUR LITTLE THIRD QUARTER RUN", "Kobe finna block Jayson Tatum number after this game" - Fans mercilessly troll Golden State and praise Boston Celtics after rollercoaster Game 1 in NBA Finals
Exclusive: "I needed to get back to the real side of the NBA that I was in as a player" - Ime Udoka opens up on his journey to first-ever NBA Finals with Boston Celtics
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