It really is. That’s rough. I always felt like it was weird that nba players seem to have just coworker relationships on these title teams. I guess we all just idealize sports too much

What is HAGS

Shine on you crazy diamond!

“Would Kobe write a whole essay about how much he loved and appreciated his teammates?”

- Tatum, probably.

But also perfectly on brand for Jayson “We did it” Tatum

Lmao too real

Sports is a brotherhood… with the people I like

Stay cool, can’t wait to hear about your adventures in the Phil. I’ll be watching your switch stream, lookin out brother.

Your pal, JT

ps Kobe!

I do imagine they talked to each other privately, even if just via text message, and said their own thing. This is probably, hopefully, just what had to be put out to the public. After seeing the reaction towards Brad on social media they had to do something.

I mean that’s all they were to each other, lol

Best wishes in your new pursuit, hope to stay in touch. +LinkedIn

What is he supposed to say in a public post? Y’all are unreasonable as hell and would have the same response regardless.

9 years leading one of most storied franchises in all of sports side by side and not even full Instagram post just a story.

Tatum has coworker energy for everyone tbf

Or maybe separately they have a different conversation?

Thats what they are lol

They were pretty openly not friends to be fair

Not every champion can have the god-tier vibes of the Nova Knicks. 

Damn he really think of brown as a co worker

Shii this time he may as well have wrote “I want him to know it was me”

Time Lord confirmed not special.

No exclamation marks because he actually meant it

The media and basement dwellers weren’t going to dissect every word of his timelord post to invent negative narratives for their fanfic.

I’m sure that they have privately talked and this is just to tick the box for the people who were already accusing Tatum of hating Brown because he didn’t immediately post something.

The comments of his most recent post are toxic asf lmao

Lot of people out here touched with the ‘tism

“Stay awesome” ahh post

Continue to be special [needs]

Plus he likely said whatever he personally thinks to him in private which is their business

No matter what Tatum did, fans and media already form the narrative that Tatum backdoor Brown (Even though I don’t think he did). People don’t seem to understand just because they teammates don’t mean they have to be the bestest friends.

It’s fine, on brand with Tatum. I don’t hate it.

all this says is that you are too well-adjusted to be making comments on reddit lmfao

Yeah this is just for the public, whatever he had to say he probably said it in person/phone.

Just chronically online people picking apart every possible word of this post, nothing new

JT: generic response

r/nba I think he might be hitler.

This has been in his drafts at least a year lmao

Redditors hate normal people and Tatum is clearly one of those neurotypical fucker!

I know it’s just an IG caption, but you’d want to try and make it sound a little sad lol

It sounds so corporate and pleasant

I don’t think Tatum is going to think much about Jaylen Brown at all tbh

I felt like I was going crazy reading these comments. Him even going out of his way to post anything about Jaylen Brown was nice. He wasn’t obligated to do that in any way.

This was crossposted to r/billsimmons and they pointed out that the only time they’ve had a first round exit was this year, in which Tatum didn’t play in Game 7, suggesting that was a direct shot at Brown lol.

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That sounds like something you guys would actually have in Utah💀

If he says anything more y’all just going to call him corny. Plus this is just for the public, everything he wanted to say to JB he said in person or over the phone

- Tatum after him and Brad finally found a trade partner for jb

He came across pretty down to earth on Jeff Teague’s podcast, Teague’s randomly called him before on his other daily pods and Tatum actually picks up too lol

Idk his other farewell posts felt a lot more personal and heartfelt. This one was basically “here damn” energy.

You people are fucking delusional if you think Tatum is an interesting enough basketball character to backstab anyone in his organization. He’s literally our generations Tim Duncan in terms of his temperament

Tatum hate is so forced lol. The guy literally barely speaks, stays out of conflict and controversy, and just plays ball

The parasocial relationship redditors have with certain players is interesting to say the least.

He texted it to Kobe first for the OK.