Charles Barkley joins the Throwbacks podcast and discusses a series of offseason slights serving to motivate Boston's Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.
Conventional wisdom suggests that a team’s motivation to win a championship may dip after having already won one. This is, after all, why it can be so difficult for champions to replicate their feat in back-to-back seasons. But Hall of Fame power forwarddid something they never did before,” Barkley said. “They managed to piss the champs off... just won MVP twice in the conference finals and finals and they’re like ‘yeah, you still ain't going to make the Olympic team.
Tatum was benched in two of Team USA’s six Olympic basketball games including the semifinal win vs Serbia. He also registered just 11 minutes of playing time in the gold medal game vs France. Meanwhile, Tatum’s Boston teammate, Jaylen Brown, was left off the Olympic roster altogether despite having made his third all-star team this season and, as pointed out by Barkey, having just completed a postseason that saw him walk away with the Eastern Conference Finals and NBA Finals MVP awards.
“If I'm Tatum and Brown,” Barkley continued, “I'm coming for the NBA, right? Y'all totally disrespected us this summer... I’m expecting Tatum and Brown to send the NBA a message, man.” as well as a lottery protected 1st round draft pick.
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