Commented David chapel in one of their excellent specials in Netflix, that the first time she understood the fear that women go through when they have to walk or take the subway alone at night was a day in which, after a performance, the manager of the pub where she performed paid her all the arrears that I owed him. With a lot of money in his bag, he had to walk the entire journey that separated this place from his house alone and he did it completely freaked out, thinking about all the things that could happen to him in case someone found out what he was wearing with him.
«What would it be like if every day I had to carry something equally valuable and, on top of that, everyone knew I had it? “ The comedian says that he wondered at that moment, in which he finally understood what all the women of the world have to go through when they venture out to the streets alone, especially at untimely hours.
For years, fans of the Boston Celtics We have been as blind as David Chapelle. We have been post-season after post-season seeing how the players of the NBA they are increasingly empowered (thankfully) and have fewer and fewer hands on the reins of their careers.
Yes, there have always been players requesting transfers because they were tired of being surrounded by companions as valid for this sport as a penguin for computer programming. But never, in the entire history of this competition, have we seen such a number of players who do not take advantage of their free agency to go to destinations a priori more attractive, but before the end of their contract they already publicly proclaim that they want to go and where.
After four seasons of Jayson Tatum in the Boston Celtics, in which the board has surrounded him with a series of templates that have allowed him play at the highest level (two conference finals) on as many occasions as they have starred in a traveling circus, the player has so much reason to believe that in Massachusetts he will be able to reach the peak of his potential and profession as to think that he may be doomed to a long career of watching how are others who take the trophies and recognitions to which he, by his own quality, could aspire and win.
Jayson Tatum is very good
Already when the already ex General Manager of the Boston Celtics, Danny Ainge, passed the pick # 1 of the past NBA Draft 2017 in exchange for # 3, in order to get the player he wanted, Jayson Tatum, and incidentally scratch another first round that has ended up transforming into Romeo Langford, it was smelled that the player had the potential and the characteristics to become something very serious.
Expectations that he has been exceeding since his first game in the NBA and that he has finished signing throughout his fourth and best season so far.
Over the past ten months, the forward of St. Louis has been chosen for the second time for the All-Star, scored four winners, matched the franchise scoring record held by Larry Bird (60 points), scored 50 or more points up to three times, signed his best numbers in points (26.4), rebounds (7.4), assists (4.3) and percentage of free throws (86.8%), played 37.5 minutes on average in 94 matches and overcome a COVID-19 which forced him to use an inhaler before and after each encounter.
Jayson Tatum is, without a doubt, the elite of the NBA and no one should be surprised that in the coming seasons he appears on a recurring basis in the discussion for the NBA MVP.
With a contract for the maximum that goes into effect on July 1, the logical thing is that the fans of the Boston Celtics would be so happy to be able to enjoy this player for years, as sure that this is what is going to happen. truth?
Not so fast.
The Limbo of Mediocrity and the Hell of Free Agency
As we said before, the problem is that in the current NBA, the players are aware that they have the necessary power to pressure their franchises to find a way out in case they are not happy in it and, again, Jayson Tatum has in front of him. of itself a list of pros and cons as balanced as Philippe Petit.
No player in the league wants to be next Charles Barkley, John Stockton O Carmelo Anthony. In the age of networks and memes, nobody wants to be remembered as that player who was very good but never won anything. That in the best case. At worst, no player wants to be the one either emblem of a mediocre franchise in which he was never well surrounded enough to win things, but made his fans proud and paid a ticket just to see him play there. And that’s not even talking about those just looking for a bigger market and more public exposure.
Counting that he still has four years left on his contract as of this summer, the Boston Celtics board has four seasons to surround the player with a squad and coaching staff that allow him to reach his sporting and professional ceiling.
The problem is that, having already liquidated all his loot from future rounds of the draft and counting on Jaylen Brown it is a perfect complement to your game, there are hardly any interesting assets with which to make big moves. Marcus Smart He is perhaps the most valuable piece on the roster and is coming off his bleakest season.
Behind him, a Kemba Walker that only in specific moments has been able to show the level he had in Charlotte, a Tristan Thompson that it can only reliably contribute a couple of things – and both are residuals in today’s basketball, a sophomore who has barely played a third of last season and a rookie as good as short, they are all the arsenal with which the frontoofice to get that four years from now Adrian Wojnarowski Don’t be tweeting that Jayson Tatum wants to follow in the footsteps of his youth idol.
The rest is field.
To make matters worse, despite the fact that a large part of his team has more than proven experience, the person in charge of carrying out the most important work that the franchise has faced in the last decade is a Brad Stevens who, for the first time in his life, He rode the subway at two in the morning, in a very screwed-up neighborhood, with a gold watch and the face of never having left Indiana in his fucking life.
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