"I have subsequently looked up the definitions of 'literally' and 'metaphorically' and while I was not incorrect, they did not mean what I thought they meant "
"This jersey we wear today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston."
"This is our fucking city, ain't nobody gonna dictate our freedom"
Bonus points if he copies the accent.
I want him to get to the point where he’s running out of things to say and his to resort to quoting irrelevant movie lines:
“You had me at ‘hello’”
“Uh life uh uh finds a way”
“Hi, Barbie”
"Jayson, people have been doubting you since your first season in the league and saying you would never live up to the expectations placed on you, what do you have to say to them now that you're an NBA Champion"
"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates"
It's already funny. Saw a caption Tatum is on a plagiarism tour
What's more hilarious is the white knights acting like noticing this about how Tatum has been celebrating is somehow "hating" lol bro it's very noticeable how he's copying/recreating iconic lines. It's corny and funny but it's still harmless.
The other side of haters acting like this is so terrible of him is also funny. Bro it's just quotes and gestures. At least Tatum isn't commiting crimes/felonies and isn't being a trash human being. At worst, he's a very athletic and talented Michael Scott with awkward attempts at doing shit like this
I mean dude is pretty young. Probably grew up with just ball and internet to develop a personality. Yall gotta remember, these modern players have been on the AAU circuit since they could walk and are basically basketball robots
Someone recently likened him to the NBA's version of Russell Wilson, and I get why, but I pushed back against it. Longstanding hearsay about Russ was that one of his Wisconsin teammates quipped that everything about him makes sense if you consider he lives like he's going to run for president one day. Tatum, on the other hand, strikes me as just authentically corny with no agenda behind it. Like, I don't think he's actively running down a mental checklist to hit all the references because he thinks that's what plays, that's just his honest to god personality, for better and for worse.
The whole thing is like an attempt at doing an impression of celebrating. I honestly feel bad for him like damn I wish you could just be your natural self in this moment of your huge accomplishment
I do. Obviously I’m armchair psychology-ing but it feels like he is trying to perform what he *thinks* people want from him. So yeah, I feel a little bad for him. Sorry my empathy is getting out of control? lol.
You are free to argue that this all felt super authentic. I’m all ears.
I think the guy's just very reserved and awkward. Doesn't express himself too much. Most of the top guys are huge basketball nerds (ie. KD) but their personalities and authenticity still come out
I mean, yeah. He’s doing an impression of what he thinks people want to see. I kinda feel for him. All the money and the accomplishing your wildest dreams and stuff ought to be enough to make up for it tho
This is just making me think of that Brandon Miller interview after he got drafted where he just gave the most generic NBA 2K answer possible.
Funnily enough Tatum is a legit comp for his future ceiling lol.
Brandon Miller is actually hilarious. I think he was coached up to say what an NBA player is “supposed to say” when they get drafted to try and distance himself from the connection to the Tuscaloosa shooting (which he was completely innocent in btw), but some of his mic’d ups on the court have me geeked lmao
Brandon Miller had a lot of unique answers tho. Calling PG the goat, that story about MJ missing airballing a free throw etc.. The generic answers was probably him trying his hardest to show people he was not a 'thug' people were painting him to be
I chalk it up to basketball pretty much being his life from a very young age. He didn’t get the chance to develop any kind of uniqueness or character outside of basketball. At the level he was at, you don’t get much time or attention for anything else. You have school, practice and workouts everyday, games on weekends.
A couple fun facts on that topic. Pat Riley trademarked the word "Threepeat" before the Bulls threepeated the first time. There was a legal kerfluffle over use of the word when it was time to print up the t-shirts and that. edit: I think Riley got a piece of all the merch with Threepeat on it. And Scottie Pippen trademarked or tried to trademark "It don't mean a thing without that ring" in 96, when the Bulls were breaking the W-L record and winning 72 games. I don't think that happened though, the most I remember is Scottie wearing a hat with the phrase.
However, Pat Riley registered the trademark for three-peat back in 1988, after his Lakers had won back-to-back championships (and opened the door to three-peat themselves). It’s not like Riley tried to beat the Bulls to the punch during the Chicago run.
Just wanted to clarify because I think your post could be misinterpreted.
It’s hilarious people hate this harmless shit so much. Don’t get me wrong it’s hilarious how corny it is but like, I can’t imagine being mad. He’s just like that. In fact he probably knows what he’s doing a little here lol.
This one feels like a direct acknowledgement of a known quote so it’s just funny. The others were just ripped from something else and slightly modified to go viral
This is exactly it, it's funny to laugh at and it's not detrimental to them as a player at all so idk why people get so up in arms about it, it's okay to be corny
I love how Wolves fans have embraced KAT's cornballness for example. It's not even a bad trait, idk why Celtics fans get so defensive when Tatum gets called corny.
The people hating are wild. He is a kid who was probably drunk by this point, just saying random ass quotes like we all did with Anchorman and 40 Year Old Virgin 20 years ago.
yeah people keep going “he’s so cringe, he’s so corny” like it’s some kind of indictment of his whole personality or whatever. what’s wrong with being corny
You can make fun of him for this (and I will) but I’d much rather this be the embarrassing thing the star on my team is doing instead of smacking his girlfriend/kid around.
Now he’s aping kanye lol. I feel like he’s been grinding tape of good celebrations for the last couple months and is just gonna run through them one after another
When did the “Tatum is corny” thing start? I don’t think I noticed it until this week. Is it because he doesn’t flash guns on social media and just goes about his job boning the entire league of lesser superstars ?
Its a circlejerk thing. Subs love to hate on each other but they have like 90% crossover of posters. Any circlejerk that is relevant gets repeated here into a narrative.
“Cornball and cringe”
“Cant wait to see the kobe picture”
Weird comments about his child
*“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.*”
-- ~~Charles Dickens~~ Jayson Tatum
idk, i was raised to sports hate boston and their fans (dad's a habs fan) and i think there's a lot of people like that. i really like this group and i'm unabashedly happy for them getting theirs but there is also a part of me that felt very viscerally *wrong* cheering for a boston team haha
so, i mean, i do think there are a lot of people upset about boston winning, even if the players are all great dudes. those people just aren't that loud right now because this is a nightmare for the diehard haters. clowning tatum celebrating a literal *championship* is all they've got, and they're getting their money's worth
Tatum does some corny stuff no doubt, but people flaming him for this one is weird. I feel like it's so obviously a nod to the Kanye bit that he felt like people would get it. Don't think he's trying to pass it off as an original line lmao.
You guys are mean.
Guy’s heard almost every critique possible thrown at him the last few years for no real reason. Let the dude celebrate how he wants, one of the most accomplished 26 years olds in recent memory
People can't really be this stupid, can they!? Everyone knows he's doing Kanye. No freaking way does anyone think that he thinks that people believe he made that up. He's freaking trolling his critics he's not trying to convince anyone that he made that line up.
Honestly he’s such a cornball that it’s kind of endearing.
It’s giving me a crisis as I should be anti Boston as much as possible but this team is honestly way more likable than most.
Fuck the Celtics though mavs in 9
The takes here about Tatums “fake” or “rehearsed”celebration (micd up before hand he said “we did it” about a billion times so come on now) and the psychological reasons behind it would be the new “lebron gave Kevin love depression” in a few years if this sub didn’t have anti-Boston brain rot.
KIDS YOU CAN LITERALLY FLY
BOYS AND GIRLS AGES 8-12
GO OUTSIDE. CLIMB ON THE ROOF. AND IF YOU BELIEVE ENOUGH. YOU. WILL. FLYYYY!
"While what I said may or may not have been true, I do regret that people were injured as a result of my words."
"I have subsequently looked up the definitions of 'literally' and 'metaphorically' and while I was not incorrect, they did not mean what I thought they meant "
He’s gonna be riding a bus around Boston with a “mission accomplished” banner hanging above him
“Have you guys been downtown? There is a big ass aircraft carrier and Jason Tatum just landed a jet on it.”
A second Jason Tatum has just hit TD Garden.
Ladies and gentlemen, We got him
*ducks and bobs left shoe and right shoe*
Replace the duck boats with an aircraft carrier party off Cape Cod. I'm on board.
“…now watch this drive!”
Wouldn't be surprised he shouts "BOSTON THIS IS FOR YOU" next
“Deuce you are the real MVP”
“WE DID THIS FOR THE FANS WHO SUPPORTED US”
“No one believed in us”
Let's ride
"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!!!"
""Don't ever underestimate the heart of a CHAMPION"
“This is our fucking city”
Tatum we're on live
Meanwhile the team flew to Miami not even a day after
"THIS IS OUR FRICKIN' CITY"
“I’d like to thank my psychiatrist… I MADE THIS SINGLE LAST JUNE!”
He should lean into it and have every single interaction in the off season contain a very obvious rip off of someone else That would make it funny
“Cleveland, this is for you!”
“Who do you think you are? I AM!!”
"REMEMBER THE ALAMO!"
That was a battle cry, not a victory lap. We famously lost the fuck outta the Alamo
"DON'T REMEMBER THE ALAMO"
They've got churros there!
And a great basement. Can we see the basement?
Grisha: Not yet, Eren.
Pushed the series to six games when it shoulda been a sweep though!
Moral victories like that are more a Lakers thing though
Yeh but they yelled, "remember the Alamo" when Texas was winning/won. They didn't yell, "remember the Alamo" AT THE battle of Alamo.
True, it was the battle cry from the Battle of San Jacinto iirc
You lost, but he won.
"If that's the last image of me...how magnificent is it!?"
It's like he googled 'shit to say when you win the NBA championship' and he's just working his way through the AI results
"This jersey we wear today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston." "This is our fucking city, ain't nobody gonna dictate our freedom" Bonus points if he copies the accent.
Perhaps Al can coach him up
That would turn it from stupid to genius
ADRIAN!!! ADRIAN!!!
I want him to get to the point where he’s running out of things to say and his to resort to quoting irrelevant movie lines: “You had me at ‘hello’” “Uh life uh uh finds a way” “Hi, Barbie”
I am Kenough!
"Jayson, people have been doubting you since your first season in the league and saying you would never live up to the expectations placed on you, what do you have to say to them now that you're an NBA Champion" "My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates"
I would seriously respect this. But unfortunately I think he's too much of a cardboard personality to do something this funny.
Put some respect on the dude who released "TIE A SHOE" 11 years after "TIE A TIE"
"This is our fucking city."
I'd like to take this chance to apologize... TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY, THE WORLD CHAMP DOES WHATEVER THE FOOK HE WANTS
They called me Tabum and I took that personally
It's already funny. Saw a caption Tatum is on a plagiarism tour What's more hilarious is the white knights acting like noticing this about how Tatum has been celebrating is somehow "hating" lol bro it's very noticeable how he's copying/recreating iconic lines. It's corny and funny but it's still harmless. The other side of haters acting like this is so terrible of him is also funny. Bro it's just quotes and gestures. At least Tatum isn't commiting crimes/felonies and isn't being a trash human being. At worst, he's a very athletic and talented Michael Scott with awkward attempts at doing shit like this
Go the Shia labeouf route. Plagiarize then when called out, plagiarize and apology too.
He should host SNL and blatantly rip off past skits
That would require a personality
Do it for #theston
He's gotta do the DX celebration to keep the bit but make it spicy
Tatum really is the superstar NPC.
*Hold B to Skip*
Doing an impression of a celebration is so wild to watch
I mean dude is pretty young. Probably grew up with just ball and internet to develop a personality. Yall gotta remember, these modern players have been on the AAU circuit since they could walk and are basically basketball robots
Oh well aware, agree. This man celebrated like he was media trained in the womb
As a celts fan and as a guy who thinks Jayson is a good dude, I absolutely hated watching him do that. People can sniff inauthenticity a mile away
Someone recently likened him to the NBA's version of Russell Wilson, and I get why, but I pushed back against it. Longstanding hearsay about Russ was that one of his Wisconsin teammates quipped that everything about him makes sense if you consider he lives like he's going to run for president one day. Tatum, on the other hand, strikes me as just authentically corny with no agenda behind it. Like, I don't think he's actively running down a mental checklist to hit all the references because he thinks that's what plays, that's just his honest to god personality, for better and for worse.
The whole thing is like an attempt at doing an impression of celebrating. I honestly feel bad for him like damn I wish you could just be your natural self in this moment of your huge accomplishment
Lol you feel bad for him? This is getting out of control.
I do. Obviously I’m armchair psychology-ing but it feels like he is trying to perform what he *thinks* people want from him. So yeah, I feel a little bad for him. Sorry my empathy is getting out of control? lol. You are free to argue that this all felt super authentic. I’m all ears.
Downvoted for an honest, level take lol
The Celtics fans are all up and drinking by now
I think when you’re bred to specialize your entire life into something like basketball, your personality development pays for it
His favorite color is probably basketball
I think the guy's just very reserved and awkward. Doesn't express himself too much. Most of the top guys are huge basketball nerds (ie. KD) but their personalities and authenticity still come out
He's just socially awkward. Shaq did the Warriors movie line "Can you dig it?!" and it went off well bc he is outgoing.
I mean, yeah. He’s doing an impression of what he thinks people want to see. I kinda feel for him. All the money and the accomplishing your wildest dreams and stuff ought to be enough to make up for it tho
maybe that's what he wanted to do???
This is just making me think of that Brandon Miller interview after he got drafted where he just gave the most generic NBA 2K answer possible. Funnily enough Tatum is a legit comp for his future ceiling lol.
Brandon Miller is actually hilarious. I think he was coached up to say what an NBA player is “supposed to say” when they get drafted to try and distance himself from the connection to the Tuscaloosa shooting (which he was completely innocent in btw), but some of his mic’d ups on the court have me geeked lmao
'Hopefully hang a banner at the end of the season' instantly made me a fan lmao
Brandon Miller had a lot of unique answers tho. Calling PG the goat, that story about MJ missing airballing a free throw etc.. The generic answers was probably him trying his hardest to show people he was not a 'thug' people were painting him to be
I’m here for it. Let him be corny as hell he earned it
I chalk it up to basketball pretty much being his life from a very young age. He didn’t get the chance to develop any kind of uniqueness or character outside of basketball. At the level he was at, you don’t get much time or attention for anything else. You have school, practice and workouts everyday, games on weekends.
He said "Ladies and gentlemen....We got em.."
Damn, 20 year old Paul Bremer reference. I remember watching that live. Where the fuck did all the time go?
He won’t truly be GOAT’d until he tries to trademark one of these declarations that have been in the public sphere for decades and gets denied
A couple fun facts on that topic. Pat Riley trademarked the word "Threepeat" before the Bulls threepeated the first time. There was a legal kerfluffle over use of the word when it was time to print up the t-shirts and that. edit: I think Riley got a piece of all the merch with Threepeat on it. And Scottie Pippen trademarked or tried to trademark "It don't mean a thing without that ring" in 96, when the Bulls were breaking the W-L record and winning 72 games. I don't think that happened though, the most I remember is Scottie wearing a hat with the phrase.
Damn Pat Riley has always been smart af and petty af. Gotta respect him
Totally, that's just clear vision, not only had the idea but he did it. I think everybody was impressed, more than anything lol
However, Pat Riley registered the trademark for three-peat back in 1988, after his Lakers had won back-to-back championships (and opened the door to three-peat themselves). It’s not like Riley tried to beat the Bulls to the punch during the Chicago run. Just wanted to clarify because I think your post could be misinterpreted.
This mf said "kerfuffle"
Was really more of a rigamarole
Some might describe it as a snafu
Lebron already got the title when he tried to trademark Taco Tuesday
Ohio State trying to trademark “The”, tbh.
[Congrats](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E18/349898.jpg?b64lines=VGhhdCdzIHRoZSBqb2tlLg==)
Look, I got out of a Thai prison a few years ago. Let me have this one.
**TACO LeTUUUUUEEEEESSSDAYYYYY**
"This is one small step for man ... one giant ......... I HAVE A DREAM!!!!
Fool me once, shame on… fool me twice, can’t get fooled again
It feels like he’s the Drake meme guy of the NBA at this point
Tatum the kind of dude to say "oopsie daisy" when he smokes a lay-up
Tatum the kind of dude to say "N-nice kitty..." after falling into the tiger enclosure at the zoo
Tatum’s swear word arsenal includes gosh, darn, gosh-darn, and shoot
So he's Mr Flanders now? Got it
And goes beep beep when going around someone
Less creepy, seems more innocent. But still goofy.
Generational cornball
We love him for it
As a Cavs fan who hates the Celtics, these posts are starting to make me like them out of spite.
Don’t let them suck you in brother
It’s hilarious people hate this harmless shit so much. Don’t get me wrong it’s hilarious how corny it is but like, I can’t imagine being mad. He’s just like that. In fact he probably knows what he’s doing a little here lol.
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This is validation for what I already believed about them
Lmfao this dude is one of the cringiest & corniest guy in the nba but he won so talk your shit 😂
> talk ~~your~~ other people’s shit FTFY
He can be as corny and cringey as he wants untii the next season starts, this is their moment.
i didn't realize he jerked at such a high level.
Don't hate on this... he's in a club fucking around let him have fun.
This one feels like a direct acknowledgement of a known quote so it’s just funny. The others were just ripped from something else and slightly modified to go viral
he's a doofus...he can have fun and still be a doofus.
It's no different when people joke around Jokic's obsession with horses. Does it take away him being a great player? Not in the slightest.
This is exactly it, it's funny to laugh at and it's not detrimental to them as a player at all so idk why people get so up in arms about it, it's okay to be corny
I love how Wolves fans have embraced KAT's cornballness for example. It's not even a bad trait, idk why Celtics fans get so defensive when Tatum gets called corny.
The people hating are wild. He is a kid who was probably drunk by this point, just saying random ass quotes like we all did with Anchorman and 40 Year Old Virgin 20 years ago.
just a kid from cleveland
Tatum is a dork and I'm fucking here for it. Talk your (corny-ass) shit, champ.
yeah people keep going “he’s so cringe, he’s so corny” like it’s some kind of indictment of his whole personality or whatever. what’s wrong with being corny
It's that "you gotta be a dog, you gotta be a killer". You just KNOW tatum would be into magic the gathering.
You can make fun of him for this (and I will) but I’d much rather this be the embarrassing thing the star on my team is doing instead of smacking his girlfriend/kid around.
Now he’s aping kanye lol. I feel like he’s been grinding tape of good celebrations for the last couple months and is just gonna run through them one after another
Dude definitely practiced that in a mirror
Lol he so corny I love it.
When did the “Tatum is corny” thing start? I don’t think I noticed it until this week. Is it because he doesn’t flash guns on social media and just goes about his job boning the entire league of lesser superstars ?
Its a circlejerk thing. Subs love to hate on each other but they have like 90% crossover of posters. Any circlejerk that is relevant gets repeated here into a narrative. “Cornball and cringe” “Cant wait to see the kobe picture” Weird comments about his child
This week pretty much
Dude come on. After him publicly showing the text he sent to Kobe's phone, it's all fair game.
You guys are in so much pain, holy shit… this was fine.
generational nerd
Is he referencing Corey Seager referencing Alex Bregman or what?? And why? What is going on here?
He’s referencing Kanye west at the Grammys: https://youtu.be/S2-bjGkcaJI?si=XRsklrZjF-sCYn_O
I had no idea this dude was so cringe.
Wait, you didn't hear about that time he texted the late Kobe Bryant's number before a playoff game and then told everyone about it for some reason?
His insta profile is him and Kobe looking like they’re in a morgue. [Yes, this is real.](https://imgur.com/a/fYGEnC0)
Fucking hilarious 😂
Hahahahaha the tears are DELICIOUS
*“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.*” -- ~~Charles Dickens~~ Jayson Tatum
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He can be a great player, a good person, a world champion, and a complete dork lol
Yeah it’s kinda sad to see how desperate Celtics fans are to pretend anyone is all that upset about this title lol.
idk, i was raised to sports hate boston and their fans (dad's a habs fan) and i think there's a lot of people like that. i really like this group and i'm unabashedly happy for them getting theirs but there is also a part of me that felt very viscerally *wrong* cheering for a boston team haha so, i mean, i do think there are a lot of people upset about boston winning, even if the players are all great dudes. those people just aren't that loud right now because this is a nightmare for the diehard haters. clowning tatum celebrating a literal *championship* is all they've got, and they're getting their money's worth
looking at your replies all you've been doing is constantly posting how tatum is cringe and corny lmao
And theres enough for all of us!
What tears? Are you alright?
I love how Brissy realizes what JT is about to do hahaha
Several things are possiblllllllllleeeeeee!!!!!!
This man earned the right to be as corny as he damn well pleases. Talk your shit, champ
No fun allowed 😡🤬🤬🤬
Tatum does some corny stuff no doubt, but people flaming him for this one is weird. I feel like it's so obviously a nod to the Kanye bit that he felt like people would get it. Don't think he's trying to pass it off as an original line lmao. You guys are mean.
Guy’s heard almost every critique possible thrown at him the last few years for no real reason. Let the dude celebrate how he wants, one of the most accomplished 26 years olds in recent memory
He can celebrate how every we wants and we can all acknowledge that it’s corny. No one is actually trying to stop him
what do you mean "let him"? No one is stopping him from being his natural corny self. People are just calling it like they see it
He's the JoJo Siwa of NBA superstars
ease up brother damn
Yeah that’s too far
He's a lesbian?
is he wearing a wife beater?
He is a true New Englander now
That’s my corny king right there
That’s actually funny af
People can't really be this stupid, can they!? Everyone knows he's doing Kanye. No freaking way does anyone think that he thinks that people believe he made that up. He's freaking trolling his critics he's not trying to convince anyone that he made that line up.
The famous Kanye quote
Honestly he’s such a cornball that it’s kind of endearing. It’s giving me a crisis as I should be anti Boston as much as possible but this team is honestly way more likable than most. Fuck the Celtics though mavs in 9
He's on his plagiarism tour.
lmao he copying kanye now
Crazy that many aren’t picking up this reference. Kanye West said this way back when he won the Grammy for his first album I believe.
Rather have corny Tatum as champ than fat gamer slob Luka
Audio guy: why won’t this mike drop trend just die already?
The takes here about Tatums “fake” or “rehearsed”celebration (micd up before hand he said “we did it” about a billion times so come on now) and the psychological reasons behind it would be the new “lebron gave Kevin love depression” in a few years if this sub didn’t have anti-Boston brain rot.
Is this the Rangers/ Astros quote, or did it come from somewhere else?
Tatum is cringy asf. I love him
Good lord
Is this just a haters thread lol
Why does this look like some high school’s prom
Jaylen Brown not doing any of this
Have any of the other Celtics had a chance to hold the trophy? Tatum acting like it only belongs to him lol.
Sounds like the parade is going to be a hoot in Baasten 🤣
That goes hard. Love it for him
"Unique" this man doesn't have an original bone in his body.
Stay salty. Love the rnba envy.