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Jaylen Brown was named the Most Valuable Player of the Finals after the Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA championship by defeating the Dallas Mavericks. There are times when attaining such a prestigious honor can provoke feelings of envy in a fellow star member of the squad. On the contrary, Jayson Tatum is not in this situation.
Tatum provided an explanation for why Brown’s victory in the award “made (Tatum) very happy” in an interview that was conducted exclusively for Sports Illustrated by Chris Mannix.
“Whether it’s All-Star selections or All-NBA selections, I feel like he has gotten the short end of the stick,” Tatum adds. “It’s just not quite right.” “I have the impression that he, in a sense, managed to compensate for some of those deficiencies that people did not vote for him for. “I was happy that he got it,” Tatum said to Mannix in a story that was published on July 25.
Brown was the only player to be selected to the All-NBA Second Team in 2023, however he was not selected to the team again in 2024. But in 2024, he was selected for the NBA All-Star squad for the third time. To add insult to injury, he also earned the Most Valuable Player award in the Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers.
When the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in 2008, Brown became the first player in the franchise’s history to win the Most Valuable Player award for the Finals.
A. Tatum, Jayson Constantly Desired Located in Boston, Jaylen BrownThe year 2017 saw the beginning of Tatum and Brown’s playing relationship, during which time both players have been the subject of trade rumors. During his conversation with Mannix, Tatum expressed his desire to play with Brown in Boston, but he never got the chance to do so.
It was always clear to Brown that I desired to have him here. My response to him was always something along the lines of, “Man, I don’t get involved with any of those talks.” It was never the case that I approached Brad Stevens, the president of basketball operations for the Celtics, or any player with the intention of saying, “Yo, I want this guy in, I want this guy out of here.”
Tatum said that he ought to have been more vocal in public about his desire to continue playing with Brown as a teammate.
“I show up, and I want to have a good time playing basketball and doing my job. And when I go back to those times, I realize that I had no idea how anything like that could have an effect on someone else because I had never been in that circumstance. Perhaps I could have done a better job of publicly stating, “No, we don’t want anybody, we want JB.” I get the feeling that I could have done a better job. To put it simply, I was always thinking, “I want to stay out of it that.”
It was important to Tatum that he avoid any kind of public turmoil. In addition, he never made it known to the public that he desired for the Celtics to get rid of Brown under any circumstances. They ultimately triumphed as a unit as a result of their tenacity and determination.
Apparently, Jayson Tatum and Brown have figured out what’s going on.Tatum stated that he and Brown have learnt how to collaborate throughout their time together, despite the fact that they had previously enjoyed success together.
According to Tatum, who was speaking to Mannix, “We’ve realized that we need each other.” We are now able to live together peacefully. In addition, we are aware that in order for all of this to be successful, we need to be the finest possible versions of ourselves. At the beginning of our careers, we were not necessarily the best playmakers, but as time went on, we worked our way up to becoming guys that truly bleed the game. “We want to be a great example of guys who play on both ends of the floor as a floor, and we want to be guys who are the best teammates that we can be.”
In order for Tatum and Brown to be at their current position, it has been a long and winding road. The fact that they have joined forces has allowed them to achieve a great deal, and they are well positioned to achieve even more in the future.
