Did Tatum or Brown post anything similar after the season ended or did they just get out of Dodge? Has Tatum or Brown embraced Boston like Embiid has embraced Philly?
I try not to put too much into what the J's did or did not say after losing. I did get a bit peeved that no one on the team said a peep about Kyrie stomping on the logo though. That gives me the vibe they don't have a huge investment in being a Celtic. Maybe that changes with Brad running the team instead of Danny.
Not singling Slam out here-
Tatum mentioned several times that he was using an inhaler to play through Covid after effects. Maybe that isn’t playing through injury for the city and team for some fans, but that sounds like playing through injury to me.
Brown did in fact play through injury. Perhaps in a different year where Celtics had a more obvious path to contention he would not have been shut down. I think he said as much, that he understood it was being done so he’s ready for next season? I don’t have a quote to link.
Brown and Tatum have done a lot in the community, haven’t they? At least the obligatory backing the community media events? It seems to me that Brown has done more than that on his own, but I don’t live in Boston. To me that is more embracing the city than tweeting Philly Tuff a few times.
As for the logo, most professional athletes aren’t going to care that much these days. College kids care. High school kids care. Fans care. But these guys have all spent time in with Kyrie and probably didn’t think any more of it than him talking about the earth being flat. It was childish on his part, and they probably recognized it as such. I don’t see their reaction to it as not caring about the Celtics, but rather as “Kyrie being Kyrie” and I don’t get mad at children. He wanted a reaction and he got one from the bottle thrower. Kyrie theater, don’t get pulled into it.