This is RIDICULOUS… – Jayson Tatum BENCHED in Olympics | Celtics News

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1. WTH?😳🤦‍♂️

2. Steve Kerr is now in the doghouse for us fans you thought the booing for Kyrie was bad just wait!🤬🤬🤬💚☘️#19

3. My theory is tatum rolled his eyes at some transformer and steve had a bitch fit.

4. After recording I saw a tweet from Adam Himmelsbach referring to Tatum not playing and this is what Steve Kerr had to say

   Steve Kerr says Jayson Tatum sat mostly because of getting KD into the mix.
   
   But said there will be opportunities.

   “He’ll make his mark.”

5. Look for the Celts to win 4 straight titles.The Js will have serious chips on their shoulders.

6. Bro i was mad the whole game 😡🤦🏾‍♂️ Smh its no way they didnt put Tatum in the game at all tho 😐 steve is a fn hater!! thats why they ops now anybody from his side 💯💯
   #🗣️FireKerr🤬

   #CelticBlood🍀🏆💚💥💪🏾

7. I was wondering WTH was going on wow the hate is real

8. Kamala loving Kerr is a joke 4:01

9. The US team is made up of too many old “legends” and Kerr as questionable coach.

10. Wow

11. Can’t wait for the C’s whoop the warriors by 50, AGAIN!!

12. The second best player at the last olympics when their Goats didn't want to get Covid in Japan gets a DNP disrespectful. Even with the women team everyone get to have minutes from the bench Kerr is terrible

13. I’m telling you Bruce this has to do with the fact that Jayson is defending Jaylen which he’s supposed to do. I hope that both Jays drop 40 each on GSW in San Francisco this year

14. crazy….. smh Im shocked, go CELTICS THO!

15. Why is it ok for professional athletes to compete in the olympics? Its a disgrace for any country to have pro athletes on an olympic squad. How can you justify it, when a small country has none? Doesn’t anyone want to see college athletes actually compete for places on a team? This is why I gave up on the olympics. Its no longer what it was designed to be. The politics is crazy. First Kyrie Irving then Jaylen Brown. Now Jayson Tatum and Haliburtin. I guess Tatum and Brown will go back and talk about this! Can you imagine the Warriors up on the calender? Kerr is going to get spanked. I won’t forget. And I can see that game getting out of hand. Hope Porzingas can be part of this message to the league and Nike.

16. Steve Kerr does this too much idk how good of a coach this guy really is

17. 😂 Im a Celtics fan and some of you were giving JB a hard time saying he disrespecting his team mates. Now you 🤡 know how JB felt being disrespected. Now ya'll wanna p!ss your panties because its JT.

18. You want to know how I feel ? Imagen turning on this game to watch your favorite player play after seeing all the disrespect for years finally wins a chips goes to the Olympic to DNP? I understand there’s a lot of scorers but Tatum also rebounds and assist and plays defense. Wow unbelievable not the first time Kerr shows disrespect towards this guy

19. I think Kerr just didn’t want to sit Haliburton out by himself so he had to pick another player to sit out wit him which made it be Tatum…

20. I fully understand why MJ punched this guy in the face. Honestly if Tatum doesn’t play because “Booker was a better fit” is complete garbage. Kerr following a media narrative about Tatum being “inconsistent”, “doesn’t show up when it matters”, “Not Top 5 because of no Finals MVP”, whatever else has been said. Keep in mind Tatum has one of the highest +/- while scoring over 15 ppg when winning a gold medal in team USA’s Olympic history. Even playing Embiid, only 4 pts against Jokic. Tatum is now the Tim Duncan of this era.

    After this I believe Jaylen Brown. If Kerr doesn’t get bit by a bullet for not player Tatum:

    the only US born player to make All NBA first team this past season, finishing Top 5 in MVP voting the past 2 seasons, the best player on the championship team this past season. He lead his TEAM in Points, Rebounds, Assists in the playoffs. Only a handful of the leagues GOAT’s have done this. This Gen Z, my generation, lack of “aura” is honestly proof that meaning behind words doesn’t matter anymore. They hate success man, disgusting. I’m still annoyed about Brown not making the US team but this is despicable.

    I won’t be surprised if Kerr tries to play Tatum more after biting the bullet.

    Take care, God bless! 🙏

21. Yeah, benching Tatum all game was total BS!

22. Good . I wish we would pull all of our Celtics . We don’t need our wear n tear on our guys .

23. Bruh Derrick White got more minutes lol.

24. You’re not on the coaching roster and you don’t know if he’s sick or asked not to play. I personally believe he wasn’t feeling well, be we all know he would have played if he wasn’t sick.

25. first team all nba doesnt hit the court. this is crazy. but white and holiday play. white holiday and tatum should leave because of this . plus the brown stuff is enough reasons to leave.

26. Steve Kerr is and always been a big pizza sheet
    He goes to the .Olympics and he and Curry decide to
    Announce their political support to KommieLa the California Valley Girl
    Want both mens and women's teams to lose bigley

27. The us olympic should investigate to the Steve Kerr now don’t let the one persons like Steve Kerr do that’s to the u s a basketballs team .

28. Steve Kerr the whole team USA organization terrible … JB should have been on the team

29. Dnp for Tatum thats outrageous

30. calm down team comes first

31. fire steve kerr!

32. Even with Durant ISS is going to need to play lights out . KD won’t shoot like this every have especially with the more aggressive defensive team