Much ado about nothing really, oh the travesty of him reading what a source sent him and him disagreeing with it. Meh, overblown.
And... was the source wrong? I don't think he is in many respects. Even on post game interviews, he's a dull person besides whatever perceived slights others may have about him.
Jaylen Brown is indeed currently underappreciated and underrated, it should come to no one's surprise that some people feel that way about him in NBA/Marketing circles. Particularly on THIS forum, not so much this year, but in the past years we've been very negative on him constantly.
So what the heck are we up in arms here for, for something that can't even be attributed to SAS... even something he disagreed with.
I agree 100% that Brown is underrated throughout the league.
TBH I think he's at least on the level of Jaylen Brunson, if not better - the only difference is Brunson is playing on an injury depleted team that has forced him into a position where he needs to do all the scoring, and his numbers have gone up as a result. If you look at Jaylen Brown's stats in 32 games without Tatum, he's averaged 28, 7 and 4 in those games on efficient shooting numbers, so I have no trouble believe Jaylen Brown is on Brunson's level as a scorer and if anything, a better overall player due to his far superior defensive play. Yet people talk non-stop about Brunson and put him on the All-NBA second team while Brown never gets a mention unless he scores 40 and didn't make any all-NBA teams.
That being said, I also agree about the idea that Jaylen probably has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his personality over the years. He came out in his rookie year and made a comment about Lebron (that he's not scared of Lebron or something like that) which a lot of people felt was disrespectful. Then for a long time he was using the NBA as a platform for activism defending violent criminals, pushing anti-police rhetoric, promoting boycott of games and walking around wearing black power clothing. Behaviour like this can be very devisive, and while I'm sure there are some people who love his involvement in social matters there are also a lot of people who were rubbed the wrong way by these actions because they believe politics should be kept out of sports.
Jaylen is a fairly blunt guy who has never been afraid of saying what he things and doesn't seem to care much whether people like it or not - and while I think it's generally a good thing to be honest and outspoken, I also think it's important to recognise that in these scenarios you are ultimately representing your industry and your employer, so sometimes it can be beneficial to lean to the side of diplomacy.
Thankfully over the last season or so (pretty much since JB got his paycheck) he has been much quieter on social subjects and seems to be sticking to basketball, which IMHO is probably for the better. But there are still a lot of people out there who probably don't like the guy.
By comparison Tatum is for the most part perfectly behaved 99% of the time. Never too high, never too low - he's always managed to keep his composure, does a great job of side-stepping when journalists try to bait him into saying controversial things, and he seems to be a master at staying professional and diplomatic with his responses. He's always come across as a nice, polite guy - in fact if anything the biggest criticism of Tatum is that maybe sometimes he's a bit too nice and too level-headed and at times it can come across like he lacks some of that fire and passion...but he's always been a very likable guy.
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