Nba Finals, Jayson Tatum: ‘My childhood dream. Dedicated to my father’

Jayson Tatum arrives in his first Finals after an extraordinary ride in the postseason. Blacked out Kevin Durant first, eliminated Giannis then and, finally, sent a super Butler on vacation, now comes the most complicated test for the Celtics superstar who wants to steal the stage from Steph Curry and his Warriors.

emotion

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“Getting to the Finals is something surreal – commented Tatum -. Seeing the billboards of the finals, all these people around and a different atmosphere even from the Conference Finals is truly incredible. Obviously as a child I watched the NBA finals dreaming of playing them one day. Here, being really here is absolutely incredible. Nothing will change on the parquet, basketball is basketball, but everything that revolves around the Finals is unique. There’s nothing like it”.

the ride

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NBA finals that in January seemed like a real utopia for Boston. A difficult start to the season and rumors of a complicated relationship between the two stars, Brown and Tatum. “At a certain point of the season, when we were in 11th position in the East, everything seemed compromised – continues the Celtics star – no one would ever have bet that we could have made it to the Finals. Instead we looked each other in the eye, we started playing as we knew and the results came. Problems with Jaylen? Nothing transcendental, only two young competitive players who were trying to find the solution to the team’s problems. There have been some difficult and frustrating moments, when you don’t win it happens, but we have never lost faith in ourselves and we were able to start again ”. A decisive change of pace, the Celtics not only managed to straighten the season but in the final of the regular season they started playing stellar basketball, then producing a postseason to applause. “In the complicated moments of this championship, however, I must admit that some doubts came to me – continues the former Duke who in these Playoffs averages 27 points – when things went wrong every now and then I wondered if I was a good leader for this team. . It’s normal to happen, but my teammates have always supported me and I’ve never lost faith in myself ”.

thanks Dad

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Tatum closes his first press conference at the Finals with a thought about his father. “If he hadn’t pushed me since I was a child to believe in myself, often with a certain severity, I certainly wouldn’t be here at the Finals. It wasn’t easy for him, and it wasn’t easy for me at times, but the work paid off. I really owe him so much “.