The man is a brick house when he attacks the cup, and he is not afraid to sacrifice his body on plays when the competition gets intense as well. He has won at the highest levels by sacrificing his ego and giving the team what it needs from him in ways supposed future faces of the league have rebelled against doing elsewhere.

"I had some time yesterday," Tatum said. The post Jayson Tatum explains why he responded to Brandon Jennings’s soft comment on Instagram appeared first on Boston.com.

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