Tatum is still frustrated by his Olympic experience under Steve Kerr
The Boston Celtics they are playing solid basketball at the moment, despite the deficit Jayson Tatum because of an Achilles injury. During his recovery, Tatum worked to improve. However, he also appeared on a recent episode of the podcast and said that he still hasn’t gotten over the experience of the 2024 Olympics because he hasn’t played that well and has seen little playing time.
Tatum was on the latest episode of “The Pivot Podcast” and talked about his time at those Olympics. He thought he had earned more playing timeespecially after how he played in the 2021 Olympics. He didn’t understand the strategy and believed his game would earn him more playing time.
Tatum said, “To be honest, it was hard because this is my second time in the Olympics, and you know we went to 2021, we were in Tokyo, and my experience was completely different. I was the second leading scorer behind KD, and we beat France; we ended up winning the gold medal. So, you know, I was in the first championship in 2024. cover 2K Like, I just signed the biggest contract in NBA history, and then I got to the Olympics.
At the time, Tatum was getting a lot of people telling him they couldn’t wait to see him play for the Warriors and Steve Kerrbut he couldn’t process it and only cared about how he felt at that moment. He was angry at a time when he didn’t care enough to prove Steve Kerr wrong. He volunteered his time to play Team USAbut he didn’t get the opportunity he thought he would.
At the time, Tatum was winning an NBA title, he just signed a big contractand was the only American named to the All-NBA team. Still, that Olympic team was loaded and managed to win a gold medal even when Tatum played sporadically.
2026-01-27 21:53:00
