Draymond Green's Controversial Jayson Tatum Statement
Despite the Boston Celtics being the best team in the NBA, Jayson Tatum has not gotten much MVP buzz. This is primarily due to Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander being off the charts, but Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green feels Tatum is being held to an unfair standard.
During a recent episode of his podcast, Green said, "The Celtics are 7.5 games ahead of the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Do people think the Celtics are that great to where Jayson Tatum is only in 5th [in MVP voting]?"
Green added, "The goalposts have moved on Jayson Tatum. I know what JT has to do, JT will not be taken seriously for MVP until he wins a championship, and it just hasn't been that way for everybody else. It wasn't that way for Nikola Jokic, it wasn't that way for Giannis Antetokounmpo, it wasn't that way for Joel Embiid. It just really hasn't been that way for everybody else, so I don't know how it ended up that way for JT."
While Green is right that the aforementioned players didn't have to win a championship before winning an MVP, they were all heavily criticized for not being champions, and in Embiid's case, he is still criticized for not having one.
While Tatum may be held to an unfair standard, he is in a league with some other very dominant players who are also on great teams, which makes the MVP race a tough one.
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