Why Jason Tatum is Still Disrespected Even After Winning a Championship

When the Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA championship, it was supposed to usher Jayson Tatum into a different tier in the discussions about the NBA’s best players…But fast forward to 3 months later and he's still at the center of a lot of scrutiny.
And it feels like he still has more to prove. In this video I go over the reasons why.
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[@dmulumba26]

This narrative that “he doesn’t show up when his shot isn’t falling” is not true at all. Even when the jumper isn’t falling, he’s still the main facilitator, key piece to the defensive scheme, and the leading rebounder. Jayson Tatum is probably the most versatile player in the league rn

[@ivblizzard3616]

ahhahahahahahaha

[@harrismust2851]

I'm a huge JB fan but JT's highest contribution in terms of scoring, rebounds & assists in the playoffs was immense and cannot be ignored

[@wedabestradi096]

I can't wait for the season to start already

[@owenmcguire525]

I've always said for a long time JT was an overrated scorer so people got it in their head he just puts up points but he is underated at everything but scoring hes probably the best rebounder in the league who's not a center one of the best passers in the league definitely one of the best defenders in the NBA and can actually switch 1-5 he does all the little things right but casual fans don't notice that stuff so the general public thinks he bad

[@blingeranvideos6568]

Hard to get recognition when your team wins big during one of your all time biggest shooting slumps. Jason Tatum’s efficiency especially his jump shot has just not been landing well (all too frequent sub 30% from 3 nights) and then to get benched because across the whole Olympics he went 0/16 on jump shots specifically, yeah that’s tough. He’s obviously a superstar talent and we’ve seen that in the playoffs (51 points most in a game 7 for example). Truthfully he just needs to be less corny and get out of this slump. If he does that and they repeat honestly they just have to take him seriously.

[@JonathanCute-e4f]

Hard to get recognition bro did you not see the info earlier In the vid literally his rookie year he made ECF he's only 19! Ppl been talking about Tatum for a min only more now cause he got a ring

[@gugga2745]

ive had this discussion with my roommate a lot (hes a celtics fan and im a knicks fan) but people can hate on tatum for being cringe but the Kobe related hate to him is ODD. The man is actively grieving the death of his idol who he became close with who died just a few years after that without (in his mind probably) being able to fully develop a relationship throughout Tatums whole career. People are mocking the way the dudes grieving the death of a friend and basically an older brother or uncle to him. Kinda odd

[@JoeFevrier]

Tatum is a great player and the critics will push him to be a monster in the game . When his haters see him become unstoppable it will be too late for them. Making him angry will push him to quickly become a decider, a tougher player, a general on the court as a Jordan or a Kobe mentality. The sky is the limit for him as of next season. I can't wait to see him become the monster that the NBA has creating with all those critics, disrespects and hates. Critics make you grow up fast and that's what's going to happen in a few weeks from now 🌍💯💯

[@J-Hue]

I don't think he has many haters. Just fans saying "pump the breaks" when his supporters put him higher than he should be. If he improves his play, i think most of his detractors will be happy for him.

[@JoeFevrier]

@VernonTang-d1d he also needs to be consistent in every single game as a number one option of the team.

[@JoeFevrier]

@@J-Hue I get what you say because we all love the game and we also want to see beautiful things in the game. We need his consistency every nights.

[@reperrepic2253]

@@JoeFevrier Okay, slowly he just steping in his prime, i think we dont going to worry about his consistancy, ofcourse there are off nights but we still didn't saw best from him and thats saying a lot.

[@matthewfrombrazil]

its because he in boston with it was on any other team he'd be on mvp talks for next season

[@JonathanCute-e4f]

Mvp!? I highly doubt it unless it's another Elite teams like the Celtics

[@805-Loc]

Facts

[@narrow3601]

The fact that people can push so many knocks against him but never actually pin down the factor that makes him bad is the reason why I never take this seriously. You’ll have a guy say it's his charisma and nothing more then have someone completely contradict that and say he was never a good player to begin with despite not having anything other than a subjective opinion to back those words up and then we just go back and forth and back and forth from topic to topic while never actually developing a point as to why he's not good.

[@younglove3362]

Too many casuals talking about basketball 🏀. Young and old people.

[@DemonKing-oi4jd]

He has all the talent and skill, but he missing that dawg in him. He has 0 charisma.

[@jmgonzales7701]

So did tim duncan.

[@dryames4319]

Nah TD had aura, Tatum doesn't

[@carbonsteelmaniac652]

​@jmgonzales7701 I agree, but timmy is respected while JT is hated for some reason 😅

[@DemonKing-oi4jd]

@@jmgonzales7701 Tim had that dawg though if you go by how he plays and what his opponents say about him. He just don't talk to the media a lot, but with his teammates he had plenty of the leader of the team charisma. Brown has more charisma than Tatum, but Tatum got more talent. It's like Westbrook and KD together.

[@dabarnes12]

It's the Duke

[@sapsapen]

People who say they would pick jb over jt either dont actually watch them play or dont truly understand basketball. Brown is more fun to watch, but 100% Tatum is better and its not close.

[@basquiat9015]

I think people hates how he come accross as a try hard

[@jmgonzales7701]

How is he a try hard

[@jaya32804]

If Tatum’s a try hard, then what does that make Kobe? 😂

[@MihoyMinoy-si8fb]

People just say anything about Tatum even if it makes no sense. Lol

[@cashoutAbu]

Son when other players do it it’s not a problem 😂💯 makes no sense at all ‼️

[@nawtursav11or]

@@jmgonzales7701just performative shit like using other dudes quotes and posting that text to kobe it is way overblown though

[@michaelsanchez347]

I don't like guys who ask to be considered great

[@tim.noonan]

When did he ask though

[@JuliusCeaser_]

So LeBron

[@michaelsanchez347]

@@tim.noonan all the time

[@tim.noonan]

@@michaelsanchez347 So you have no examples of when he ‘asked to be considered great’. I apologize, I actually took your opinion seriously for a minute. That was my mistake.

[@michaelsanchez347]

@tim.noonan "I'm humbly one of the best players in the world" "I think I'm top 5" "I'm the best player in the NBA right now" Great players don't need to tell us. He screams of insecurity and desperation

[@ahmedtimimi690]

Your scripts have always been goated 🔥but man oh man, the quality of the vids are getting spoookyyyyy😮‍💨

[@manlikezi]

That’s Love🙏

[@goofywill90]

I once thought similar of JT. He's like Gohan. Watch his interview you'll see his struggles and puts his mindset and accomplishments into context. Not your conventional dawg but it's there. A nice dawg if you will might be on of those heroes you might actually want to meet.

[@clipsidevids]

Tatum simply just dont have that aura... A struggling rookie kobe bryant emits more aura than any other basketball player.. everytime he steps on the court, you know he is that lion.. and this was before all his accolades.. Tatum just dont have that dog in him.. Atleast yet... so its great that he channels kobe because he really needed that mentality..

[@rossmcewan7204]

think the reason he is hated he isn't the best at anything or at least in the conversation for example scoring some say luka some say embiid its between them for the best scorer Tatum isn't considered the best at anyone thing

[@realkc1274]

And his clutch go to move is a step back three at 28%…😂

[@johnvanhlesing4827]

Jaylen Brown is better than JT

[@UzuiNoKokyu]

zero ball knowledge

[@sapsapen]

@@UzuiNoKokyuThank you. The amount of people who have this take is impressive. So many regarded people

[@gorgistanojevik3196]

​@@UzuiNoKokyu I'm a mavs fan and he was legit clamping luka you gotta give him the defense at least

[@RobertJandrue]

Celtics fans point and laugh at yall btw

[@johnvanhlesing4827]

@@UzuiNoKokyuJaylen brown won the FMVP because he had a better +/- and had roughly the same amount of ppg but Jaylen brown also had a better True Shooting percentage that’s why he was the FMVP but honestly I think both JB and JT are trash 😂 Giannis clapping that team next year

[@tola978]

I think the fact that he came into the league and was like a 95 rating player and pretty much just stayed between 94-96 all his career. I think most of us fan of his really thought he'd start pushing towards that level 99 player by now considering his early success. Whereas JB started off at an 80 and slowly progressed into what he is now which is probably a 93-94 player. Considering the trajectory this might be the year JB surpasses JT. Ain't no shame in being a Pippen to an MJ.

[@lenzoltan]

He gets the respect he earned. He needs to be the clear best player of a finals like all the greats did.

[@clipsidevids]

Kevin durant - best olympic scorer LeBron - one of the greatest players of all time Theres is no sceneario on that olympic team where he will get more playing time than those two vets.. and he's lucky kawhi is out on that olympic team... because even kawhi will most likely get more minutes than him if he was there

[@samancegroupfinancials363]

I dont see anything odd with his actions! People always look for something to hate you for it! He seems like a great dude with a good heart!

[@tylerriley2587]

They hate Boston and they hate on greatness Micheal Jordan Kobe Shaq and Tim Duncan got some hate when they started to reach success.

[@ChickenTone378]

HE GOTTA RE-SPEC HIS BUILD.

[@tyizzle80]

Ive notice that the players in the nba who openly idolize Kobe the Media tend to disrepect like Kyrie Irvin for example. Taytum and Jaleen Brown also Idolizes Kobe. These players tend to be independent thinkers, and the Media doesnt like players who have a mind of their own. Lebron fans still mad at Tayum for dunking 9n their GOAT.

[@younglove3362]

Nobody mad at Tatum for dunking on LeBron. 🙄

[@JonathanCute-e4f]

3:00-3:07 no wonder he got benched

[@royfablooo2810]

I thinks he's a little bit Unlucky at sometimes, and lets be real those Plagiarism celebrations just made his whole situation more worst. Him being benched is explainable and understandable he did struggled, he lacked chemistry on the team and of course Guys like Devin Booker, Holiday and Derrick White just fit the role much better than him.

[@yt_clazify]

Imo its mostly because the C's hype him up but plays terrible to mid in playoffs at times especially during finals series against gsw he was a turnover machine and was getting clamped missing layups and all then in the mavs series he did improve in his playmaking and less turnover prone and decision making but he was simply not a superstar in the finals until game 5 when the series was basically already over

[@malcolmhodnett8874]

He led the Celtics the whole playoffs to a championship. Yall just yap

[@Opium64]

Bro a basic light skin pretty much

[@p26_]

he isnt clutch and people just over rate him he just shoots a buntch of contested shots

[@waff6ix]

ITS CRAZY CAUSE IMO JAYLEN BROWN IS A BETTER PLAYER THAN JAYSON TATUM🤷🏾‍♂️

[@averagecat5968]

My personal opinion. Give him some more time, let him get more accolades and win another ring. I like Tatum but I will never root for for him as he is with Boston and I’m a jimmy butler fan and always want best for the heats. So let him get more hardware and people will respect him

[@milktea2422]

It’s pretty simple, he’s successful, but he’s also corny and has no star power like previous great players. He plays for the Celtics, and he’s a good player on a good team. But he also does stupid shit like texting Kobe after his death and then losing against the warriors. He recreated every post championship celebration. This stuff is just corny. Even though he’s a good player, he doesn’t have his own personality.

[@Averagedre]

bro watches hoops for personalities😂 go watch reality tv for that

[@blicleak1101]

His energy is just weak and he doesn’t have any star qualities. And then he tries to be something he is not. He is just a goofball a bit

[@jmgonzales7701]

What energy

[@FillyouupSplash]

You seem feminine 🫦

[@gigiarcay]

This would be valid if gabe Vincent footplanted brown, not tatum. I will all agree to all of you haters if brown would face triple team or at least double team, not tatum

[@Bogellis]

He reminds me of grant hill.

[@blicleak1101]

No way in hell

[@jmgonzales7701]

​@@blicleak1101both of them are bland

[@TheMockedy]

He's not a top 5, he may be a top 10, maybe.

[@samwaeilyousif2865]

do you thinks things would be different if Jayson won the finals MVP?

[@jordanc.3405]

And yet people were saying that Jayson Tatum was the BEST PLAYER on team USA. What a joke.

[@RobertJandrue]

Embiid and tatum are the best players on that team on their own rosters stop it

[@CarlosRojas-hr6ms]

He’s soft. Needed to ride a super duper team to finally get a chip

[@GeecheeSean]

can't take low serious

[@xypher321]

hes got the talent, but not the drive. even tho he looks up and idolizes kobe, he resembles shaq more xD

[@patescortez88]

I'm sure you guys can make fun of all his success. Laugh at that

[@TheLittleLife]

cuz no fmvp

[@michaelberenato911]

Brown is so much better.

[@gorgistanojevik3196]

He's just hated because it's Boston. They basically had one of the easiest roads to a chip with how good their team is and because Tatum is considered the best and you still see him go 7-22 in the finals and still win by a good amount fans of other teams get jealous and pissed off and given that he's also kind of a goofball it's hard to respect him and his game

[@JERWINIVANCORBETA]

Tabum is such a weird player, it’s like he’s not there. He literally has no personality, hence the copying of other guys behavior. He’s such a awkward person, it’s impossible to root for him if you’re not a Celtics fan cause you’d roll into a ball of cringine and corniness. The only market for him are Celtics fans that’s literally it😂💯

[@xypher321]

i grew up around boston and loved my boys in green since 2008, but ever since 2022 i knew tatum wasn't the guy to lead the team, at least not by himself. now, after jaylen got the mvp, i know who the bigger half is of the duo.

[@JERWINIVANCORBETA]

@@xypher321 i agree, atp wouldn’t surprise me if they split after next season if they fail

[@AOE0619]

HE OVERRATED

[@UzuiNoKokyu]

zero ball knowledge

[@AOE0619]

@@UzuiNoKokyu CRY

[@MihoyMinoy-si8fb]

@AOE0619 I’ve never seen a man with tears in his eyes and trembling in his voice tell somebody else to stop crying. Your projection is wild 😂😂😂

[@Sage_Hashish]

Your last point about a easy path to the finals extends to the finals itself. Luka was injured all throughout the playoffs and was hobbled the whole time. That ruins their legacy even more

[@HeltForfra]

I feel you, but honestly- what the fuck could they have done differently? I hate the cakewalk take since thats out of their control, and let’s be honest- they were 12 games better than the rest of the east so no matter what they would probably have been in the finals

[@Sage_Hashish]

@@HeltForfra I mean, I’m a firm believer that they would have won the championship either way injuries or not. It’s just very easy to make jokes about the Celtics and some of the jokes even having a little truth to them (Brown being the real #1 option, Tatum playing below his standards not mattering for winning etc…) makes it even funnier for every nba fan who doesn’t like the Celtics. I get the argument of “playing who’s in front of you” but that just hurts their legacy so much when most of the eastern conference was hurt. Celtics kinda need another chip or two in the next 5 years otherwise this team will always be remembered as underachieving chokers, even with this ring.

[@HeltForfra]

@@Sage_Hashish But don’t you realize that’s moving the goalposts? It was always “they need to win a chip” and once they finally got one it’s not enough all of a sudden. That being said I found it annoying as well that when they were going on their finals run, everybody said that they weren’t battletested and people leaned into the mavs’ upsetting the timberwolves. But when true colors showed, and the celtics dominated everybody switched up and said the mavs were weak and never stood a chance. Just annoying ig

[@Sage_Hashish]

@@HeltForfra yeah I get that, it really is moving the goalposts. But the NBA is a entertainment business, basketball comes second. So the Celtics are just the perfect combination being a strong team and being “unlikeable” to the general NBA fan who watches KZbin or First Take or whatever else there is. And you gotta admit, Tatum sure as hell isn’t helping when he goes for contested midrange shots and ‘We did it’ or ‘what are they gonna say now’. He makes it too easy 😂. I just hope that Tatum realizes that he doesn’t have to be Kobe 2.0 and that he can just be his own player, because the sooner he does that the faster people will stop making fun of him.

[@HeltForfra]

@@Sage_Hashish yeah tatum really does come off as corny, and that hurts to say as a celtics fan. But you really can’t depend on the guy from game to game. Also I think his jumpshooting has taken a dip because of all the extra muscles he’s gained (same thing happened to westbrook and a lot of others) so hopefully he figures that shit out. Btw was happy as hell watching them win the chip and as soon as I saw tatum say the quiet “we did it” I thought pleaaaase don’t lmao

[@shafiksunderani4230]

He doesn't have a special skill so he's boring to watch. For example, Curry has logo 3s Jokic can do no look pass Durant is a sharp shooter Ja Morant has fun dunks Kyrie has cool handles Giannis can power dunk Lebron can do all of the above Tatum is one of the most boring superstars. Tatum is like a Tim Duncan except Duncan won a lot (so hard to hate on a 5x champion) and he was a super nice person.

[@xoirvinn]

Tatum doesn’t resemble Duncan at all. He’s more like a Walmart LeBron. Can do a lot of different things well but doesn’t really excel at anything.

[@JonathanCute-e4f]

I disagree with the Duncan comparison but everything else is right watching him he play style seems so standard like a high schooler doing drills he definitely lacks the individuality other stars have everyone is different but I mean actually showing those differences

[@shafiksunderani4230]

@@JonathanCute-e4f lolol @ like a high schooler doing drills

[@tylerriley2587]

Failed raged bait

[@clipsidevids]

Duncan is an all time great defender + elite rebounder + a proven leader.. he is not duncan at all He is more of a tracy mcgrady.. if only tmac was healthy and in a great team + system.. and I would argue T-MAC is better than tatum, ceiling wise..

[@realkc1274]

He doesn’t have that Killer instinct and swagger. He goes with the flow too much, soft

[@nathanosaka3977]

I’d rather still pick JB than JT

[@marcgilles4520]

You’re nuts. Tatum put up 60 pts 8 rebounds and 5 assists in a game. JB has never done anything that crazy. First Celtic to average 30 pts in a season. Tatum’s accolades are putting into the history books.

[@johnvanhlesing4827]

@@marcgilles4520it’s one 60 point game, JB won them a chip

[@marcgilles4520]

@@johnvanhlesing4827 the media was driving that narrative, Tatum was way more impactful. No one mentions how Brown shot almost 60% from the freethrow line, but had that been JT smh. There’s no metric that proves Brown is better than Tatum. Tatum scored 30 pts 7 times during the playoffs, and scored more points than any player in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. In the Playoffs Tatum was 3rd in total points scored, 3rd in total rebounds and 2nd in total assists. He had a hand in every important statistical category and led his team in scoring assisting and rebounding , but can’t get any credit?

[@marcgilles4520]

@@johnvanhlesing4827 look at the history of the NBA, and you’ll see this is the first time a player led a team and didn’t get credited rightfully. Locks up Kevin Durant and helps Boston sweep the Nets, can’t give him props. Tatum put 50 on the 76ers and eliminated Embiid, nothing. In 2022, Put 46 on the Bucks sent them packing. in 2024, Drops 31 pts, 11 assists, 8 rebounds in the NBA Finals, and Brown puts up 23 and he’s more impactful?

[@sapsapen]

Regarded take

[@Himothy_Neutron]

I think there’s two main factors. One he’s really corny and people wanna hate cuz it’s funny. Two he never really led his team to a championship. It’s like when curry didn’t win fmvp in 2015. Although he should’ve, that’s a different story. But people hated on him all that time because of that. If Tatum performs well and wins his own fmvp, I think this wouldn’t be as much of a conversation.

[@reperrepic2253]

With JT just reaching his prime, means we didnt see his best yet. Lets go JT , b2b baby.

[@shnsnto]

TSOJT