Jayson Tatum shares a motivational message on being a leader: “Being around somebody that feels like they know it all, I don’t wanna be around that person. I don’t wanna be the smartest person in the room, I want to learn from somebody else.”
JB booting up the stream
they packed me up chat
Did not expect Tatum to fry his ass like this lmao
Maybe Tatum watched the recent podcast with Cam Johnson where Neil Degrasse Tyson said if you are the smartest person in the room then you should find another room to learn something from someone smarter than you?
I bet it’s literally this. He just heard a smart person say something and was like “that’s smart” I’ll repeat it”. Which is not terrible policy for developing opinions if you’re good at curating sources.
Sure but I also don’t think you become an elite basketball player in the nba without taking advice from other people.
Like people clown on him for worshipping Kobe yet it’s so hard to believe that he listened to his advice on basketball?
Who finds that hard to believe?
man you guys comment about players on this sub like they’re intellectually disabled. there’s 400 of them, and yes a lot of athletes go to school for the sport and skip the classes, but even a dumb motherfucker can put together a smart thought on their own.
you guys really think that a guy like tatum - in the league nearly a decade as a superstar who would spend time with coaches, execs, and veteran role players, who has been in basketball leagues his entire life and has seen it all - wouldn’t be able to figure something like this out?
it’s the same with kuzma the other week. yes he put that shit through chatgpt, but he’s 31, active on social media in the 21st century, has spent time in lockerrooms with super rich people while knowing there are mega rich people above them. it’s not surprising that he had thoughts on money and power and wanted to post about it.
Redditors love feeling superior to famous people.
“What does ‘packed up’ mean?” ~ishowspeed
he streamed today and said hes streaming tomorrow
he’s streaming his workouts from Egypt. lethalshooter had him working on spacing wide for catch and shoot 3s
That’ll 100% be his most effective role playing next to Bron and Joel
PLEASE
As the smartest streamer, JB needs to explain what a leader actually is
“tatum wants to learn from someone smarter than him? then why did they trade me away???”
Shots fired
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Yall are so funny
TERRIBLE timing
He’s talking about Payton “Jalen Brunson” Pritchard.
*Perfect timing. Jaylen threw several passive aggressive shots at Tatum last year, and Tatum rolled through all of them without responding. Nothing wrong with subtly responding after the divorce lol.
And frankly, this is great advice in general. Good leaders are humble and don’t think they know it all. Good message regardless of the subtext.
Idk man, I don’t think Tatum decided to throw Jaylen under the bus when talking to some elementary school kids. That would be some The Office level stuff. Lol.
I will say regardless if he did or not, no way you can respond to it because he is right. It’s good advice and great advice for kids.
That would be some James Harden in China level stuff
Right? I don’t see this as throwing shade JB’s way at all. This is great advice for anyone trying to be in a leadership position or already in one. People look too deep into this type stuff when he’s just trying to get a solid message across to the kids
Neil Young used to talk a out how he wants to be the worst musician in the room because itd only make things sound better
Another thing I guess is that we live in a bubble where this message of Brown being a smartass was shared a lot. Tatum may live in a bubble where he didn’t hear/pay attention to this narrative, so he might not have connected the dots between his message and JB.
When did Brown throw shots at Tatum? Genuinely asking I only recall the “this was my favorite season” comment
“Look what I’ve been sacrificing”
“This was my favorite season ever”
Hmm those don’t make me think those are shots at Tatum but maybe I’m missing context
They’re not necessarily shots at Tatum, but they’re incredibly easy to twist around, and kind of a “why would he even say that” type of thing. Just like what Tatum is saying now about leadership. It’s just a bunch of tiny little bread crumbs that indicate that they weren’t exactly best buds, maybe not even friends at all. And the big cherry on top is that the Celtics took the first opportunity to ship out Brown.
Like without context, all these things just seem like little unnecessary micro-aggressions. With context, it definitely paints a picture about their current relationship.
Doesn’t really matter though, they played well together for several years and won a chip together.
Despite the noise I don’t think Tatum (or brown) ever went to management to get rid of the other.
That feels like the type of thing that gets leaked if brown or Tatum were going around feeling that way
The entire “I didn’t know JT wasn’t playing until 30 minutes before the game” when the Celtics announced it hours before Game 7 against Philly
If you’re the smartest person in the room, it’s time to find a new room.
GREAT timing
🎶Jaylen Brown’s in the tunnel now, Jaylen Brown’s on the show🎶
Can anyone who follows his socials confirm if this is current or if it’s old? Cuz posting an old clip of him saying this is just too easy, but him saying it now would be hilarious to me lol
go check his IG rn.
It’s there
Does instagram not have the date on posts? Why is this two different screenshots put into one picture?
its one screenshot. i just put two tabs next to each other and took a screenshot.
But here. i hovered my mouse over the time and it shows the date
Damn that’s crazy lol. If that’s not intentional, this is one of the most oblivious dudes in the world haha
Having watched Tatum for the entirety of his professional career… he might be that oblivious. Dude simply exists only to hoop and be with his family.
i see now there’s a reason why he didn’t answer Jaylen Brown’s call during his podcast
I think it’s a pretty obvious clipped video from what was probably an all day basketball camp. Saying to improve you should surround yourself with smart people isn’t some revolutionary idea
Not for stories which disappear after 24 hours or something, unless you save it. the time on top lets you know how long ago the story was posted. Users can save them on put saved stories in their profile and it’ll show like 3 months ago or whatever
This is currently on his IG story, from what I can tell.
Eh? Perfect timing!
He’s not wrong
Perfect timing
LMAO
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Jaylen rambling on and on in a monotone voice is always hilarious lol.
Especially if he’s got that group of hanger ones nodding. I’ll always love the guy and hate he was dealt but that shit made me laugh at him pretty hard
That stream was hilarious. Like who the hell are these dudes?? I was dying
He doesn’t have a podcast
Time for a legendary twitch rant
JT ordered the code red!!!!!
You can’t handle the truth!!!!!!
jumpman in the background? could it also be that JT pushed to keep JB off the olympic team??
are you streaming rn
Yeah this is insane
Would actually be goated if this was the real Jaylen Brown
Lmfao a blockbuster film can’t top the drama of an NBA offseason
Idk personally Odyssey was much better than watching my team shoot itself in the dick
I completely understand where you’re coming from. That said, watching your team shoot itself in the dick is super entertaining to me.
We act like it’s not important, but we live for all the chaos and drama
The nba is just a soap opera for dudes
All sports talk really . Never noticed it until someone told me .
Yea it is
Legitimately all that’s left is for players to start having relationships with each other like they do in the W & it’s set.
Celtics will be better than Philly in less than two years. And Philly are not making it out of the East with this squad anyway
Less than two months*
LeBron and JB plucking their last hairline follicle like the bow of Odysseus
We should’ve left Apollo’s cattle the hell alone
the sun god is actually helios not apollo
Apollo is also sometimes referred to as “the sun god” to be fair
You guys are fineee, I like where Boston’s at tbh. It’s a blessing for a team to get off a ride at the right time.
Jaylen wasn’t ever gonna behave well next year - too many pent up frustrations. He had to go and reset elsewhere.
I never thought an offseason could ever top the 2016 and 2019 offseason, but I was proven wrong.
Honestly, NBA subs are on par with reality tv show subs and I love it.
Follow the WNBA literally any day of the year. It’s bananas in totally different ways
I mean genuinely this is very good advice but it’s hard to think he’s not talking about Brown
It is incredibly easy to think it is just generic good advice because that is the context, but it is also incredibly easy to interpret this in the most funny way possible
He could’ve said this a hundred different ways, and even went out of way to say he doesn’t wanna be in the room with that guy
It’s both. In a vacuum it’s great, great advice in general that’s good for kids to hear… AND it’s also simultaneously an obvious response to Jaylen.
And you know what? Good for Tatum. Jaylen said a lot of passive aggressive shit last year, so good for Tatum for getting in a subtle clapback.
We’re giving him props for… sneak dissing him during a speech to 4th graders? When they go low, we go lower
We give him props for finally speaking up for once in his career. A) he’s giving good advice to the kids and B) he’s finally taking some agency as a leader. Jayson is literally the perfect PR star because we didn’t hear a peep from his whole career about drama until this trade was executed while Brown yapped everyone’s ear off about anything and everything
…while Brown yapped everyone’s ear off about anything and everything
Just like your average know-it-all.
I don’t even think it’s a sneak diss. I think it’s actually just good advice that he himself has used to improve
The audience is a bunch of young kids. I really don’t think he’s taking a shot at Jaylen, just giving good advice.
The fact that it’s glaringly fitting for Jaylen does speak volumes about their mentality differences though.
You will never convince Redditors that they’re actually the source of the drama they crave so much.
Only hard if you think everything these people do revolves around petty bs, of which JT has never participated in. This is genuinely good life advice lol
Such good advice that it kinda seems like he’s talking from experience
Him saying he doesn’t want to be around that person is what really painted the picture lmao
It’s good advice and usually not a shot at someone but JB seems to believe he’s the smartest person in the room and admitted as much.
I fucking hope it’s about Brown I love JT with an axe to grind
There’s gonna be at least 3 smartest guys in the room on the Sixers. Nurse has his work cut out for him.
gonna be very interesting. Kyle Lowry was the one who anchored that 2018-2019 championship team. FVV had issues with Kawhi load managing but the team worked well.
Nurse was never good at managing personalities with the Raptors and was a big reason why the team was dysfunctional before he left (essentially gave up before the season ended). This season will be very interesting…
Yep, Nurse was great at the X’s and O’s, and absolutely terrible at inter-personal stuff. If he can’t handle FVV’s ego, how’s he going to handle Embiid, JB and Lebron? It will be fun to watch though!
Dude, that’s why Bron is the perfect guy for a coach like Nurse. There’s one thing Bron has, and that’s leadership quality. He knows how to pull a team together, and gives confidence to role players.
Hopefully LeBron has enough cachet that they all defer to him as the BBIQ guy in the room.
He might be the only person on the planet with the cachet to check everyone’s ego there lmao
Nurse gonna need a Doctor for these big brained smarty pants-es.
Fuck it, bring in Doc Rivers. Have the Sixers considered that?
i think the sixers would rather trade Jaylen Brown for Paul George than bring Doc back
Who is the third?
In a funny alternate reality, it’s Joe mazzula coaching this team 😭
After years of calling Tatum corny I’m here for the revenge arc. This is awesome and the Philly Bos games will be spicy as hell
Philly at Boston in Christmas in the middle time slot
Yeah I want that slot instead of opening night.
Most likely Sixers @ NY to open
I would love for Jaylen Brown flex on Tatum after a dunk and for Tatum to do the Iverson step over into a scuffle. Wanna see angry Tatum 🔥
80% of me is sad the Jays were split but 20% of me is fiending for watching the head to head
I know this isn’t what you’re talking about but as a Celtics fan I’m genuinely excited to see Tatum run this team without having to defer his usage to someone clearly worse than him. I think people are going to be surprised.
Well this looks like a good place to setup camp.
💺🍿
Bought smores 🔥
You da MVP
Lmao
Why would he say this about Neemias Queta
it’s insanely fucked when you think about it
Remember that video of the team at the movies and no one wanted to sit next to Jaylen Brown because he’s always talking?
This is that.
Saw that and it really looks like JB was that guy in Boston, even management had enough lol
He tried to give a life lesson after the question too
Not all water is good water
someone posted it a few weeks ago lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/Vw59ySkZPF
Oh wow I was never big on the concrete beef thing but this is extremely pointed phrasing hahaha
JB must genuinely be insufferable if this is a real thing
I just keep thinking of the clip of the Celtics going to the movies and the social media person is asking who you wouldn’t want to sit next to for a movie, and a bunch of them said Jaylen Brown because he would probably just talk and try giving knowledge throughout the film, and literally as one of the guys says this, Jaylen Brown starts trying to drop knowledge on the group, completely unaware of whats going on. Its gotta just be a bit exhausting after some time.
Also putting an unholy amount of butter on his popcorn at the same time
There’s no such thing as too much movie theater butter on popcorn, cmon now
Idk man, it was a small bag and the camera was on him for a good 40 seconds and the butter didnt stop once during it 😭
Prolly JB’s version of trickle down economics 🥸
im begging u to watch the video, this is genuine me talking rn not reddit superstar persona, it was a disturbing amount of butter. probably half a quart
LeFatherFigure will take care off JB
always thought both of them were corny in their ways, jb the smart way and jt the boring way. for a cornball to be annoyed by another cornball is impressive
I would say JB in a performative way and JT in an introvert way.
I love this comment lol
Hes insufferable and hes insecure, a terrible combination
its fine bron handled kyrie another one of these pseudo intellectuals
he can do it again
It’s sad cause I’m a huge JB fan but if you watch the video of the team at the movies and they all say they don’t wanna sit next to JB.
And the reason? He would talk to much and try to give you life lessons lmao
#naismith
Yes, we all knew this but decided to brush over it because he put ball in hoop
BOS-PHI games are gonna be super lit this season 🔥
LAL-PHI games too but different vibe 😎
Lakers and Sixers is who gives a shit.
Not just the phrasing, but then watching it back and making sure to post it on his ig so the world (including JB) can see
Wait what, please tell me this is AI? This is kinda crazy
Shits insane
Mf just disses his career teammate in front of a bunch of kids😭
You think Tatum is the problem here?
Yeah, even if it was a direct shot at Brown (and I don’t think that’s clear), Brown just got done saying that his favorite year ever was the one where Tatum was out with a career altering injury
That shits still wild
I don’t even know why anyone is shocked the trade happened at all. After he said that, I knew he was done and it should have been done. Terrible team chemistry from brown
Did you watch the clip? The headline isnt the full quote. I didnt get the vibe at all that he was talking ab JB while actually watching it.
Giving the speech to kids is fine but going out of his way to then post that part of the speech on his instagram story knowing the wording makes it obvious
He probably wasn’t but pretty tough choice of words if not
I don’t think it’s intentional tbh. I feel like it’s generic advice, but Brown just happens to always think he’s the smartest guy in the room lol.
such an interesting way to describe leadership
Nobody knows better than speaking from experience
He’s right tho
at least tatum understood what “think you’re the smartest person in the room” means unlike jb. the phrase has absolutely nothing to do with someone’s actual intelligence. it has everything to do with your attitude and buy in to the team. it’s a nice way to say someone is a pain in the ass to work with. you question the decisions made by the coach and front office. you think your way is better.
how is the rest of the team supposed to buy in, if the leader is questioning decisions and going against the grain cause he thinks he knows better.
meanwhile jb thought the quote was an attack on his intelligence.
spoken like a man that had to play with kyrie irving and jaylen brown.
Damn shots fired at Juancho Hernangomez
Respect
This sounds like a targeted attack at someone.
Shots fired at Neil Degrasse Tyson
That is a normal quote. Move on, find a new slant
Fuel, meet fire.
If this isn’t a shot at jb then it’s still hella dumb for Tatum to use that phrase lol
He did say he doesn’t want to be the smartest person in the room
Idk if they ever had actual beef but they were clearly at least bugged by each other
It’s generic ass speech and honestly good life lesson about being a leader but it’ll be gobbled up as JB fodder.
The saying goes “if you think you’re the smartest person in the room go find a different room” or something like that
After years of cold hearted neutrality, I think I’m a Tatum guy now
I refuse to believe JT is spicy enough to have been intentional with this, but damn it’s gonna contribute to narratives
That’s just good advice in general. Politicians and anyone that work in the government should be like this. But instead we got a bunch of religious/anti-science nutjobs and conspiracy theorists in power making important decision over matters they know nothing about.
Snap
Probably talking about Jordan Walsh that know it all motherfucker
Yikes.
Shots fired.
You guys are stupid. Whether or not Brown behaved like a know it all, this is just good advice for kids.
It can be both good advice and also a shot towards JB at the same time..
He is holding a TED Talk in front of kids.
This “having to deal with Mr. Know-it-all” is actually one way LBJ eventually regrets the decision to go to Philadelphia.
Well being the smartest person in the room doesn’t mean you stop learning from the rest of the room. Normalize smart people being able to learn something from anybody.
The issue isn’t being the smartest person in the room, it’s THINKING you’re the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately JB falls into the latter camp.
They can never make me hate this 19 year old wunderkind
TIME TO SPECULATE! 🔥
are people in the comments really correlating this to jaylen brown? 💀
are we deadass? its about JB bro
I’m sure there will be completely normal and calm discourse about this clip
This would only offend someone who believes they know everything and are regularly the smartest person in the room, so if someone takes offense to this they are likely an asshole/problematic person anyways lmao
Anyone who says they are the smartest person in the room is probably the dumbest person in the room.
This is insane shade LMAO
Why does this sub think it’s offensive for JT to be passive aggressive toward Jaylen Brown? JB has been bitchy toward Tatum all year
I mean, Jaylen Brown performing a Boston Kyrie Irving in Philly is definitely on the table.
Brown isn’t staying in Philadelphia they aren’t giving him the two year $70million extension he’s realistically getting traded the last year of his current contract.
Oh no he didn’t
Yall are straight miserable lol I highly doubt he’s talking about brown, Does come off like that tho
Be for real man
You can’t do this for something this blatant lol
Fuck off bro
Yea man I’m sorry, normally I agree but this is just TOO pointed for me to say it’s not a bit intentional
Clearly it’s not about JB, but it’s 100x funnier for people to make it about JB
Lmao, hot damn that shade.
Not so subtle shots at a certain ex teammate
Kyrie Irving
Am I dumb or does this shit not make sense..
Wouldn’t you wanna be around the smartest guy in the room if you actually want to learn something?
His point feels like: you shouldnt act like a know it all cause nobody wants that. You have to be the one who’s always asking questions and willing to know things from people around you.
He’s giving advice on how to be not what to be.
This is a cookie cutter general advice. It’s a nothing burger. Dude probably didnt know it’s gonna be on reddit
See, this is why you hire a camera man. If you stream yourself you sound dumb and thirsty for attention.. unlike this - telling kids about your drama- this comes off as smart. Big brain shit right here.