Stephen A. Smith calls for people to stop “ignoring” Jayson Tatum in MVP race

Stephen A. Smith calls for people to stop “ignoring” Jayson Tatum in MVP race

I I love Stephen A and I love that take because winning matters this gets back to the argument that Joe moula is making about the All-Star game where you are right now forsberg why is Derek white and Chris STS porzingis why are those guys not included in the All-Star Game

Do we not care about winning to me this should be a real factor in the MVP discussion and if the Celtics continue to tear up the rest of the league the way that they have and if Jason Tatum continues to play at the level that he’s

Playing he should be the MVP he should be the front runner for this award right now in my opinion Christen it’s because he’s willing to do everything thing for him to handle the other night the way he did against the Nets where he could have ended up with 60 points if he really

Wanted to and instead became a playmaker and completely Chang his game in the second half just for fun seemingly like that speaks to his overall maturity level and his development as a as a well-rounded basketball player he’d be my number one choice right now I don’t get a lot of things right

But I feel like I was a little bit ahead on this I’ve been saying all week on our programming that the Tatum surge is coming right like it it gets to the point in the season where you can ignore it and be like well he has so many good

Teammates it’s hard to like give him all the credit but Phil you nailed it best player on the best team and the best team by like a large margin has to be considered here now it probably still slot him third right now I think joic has just been amazing SGA what he’s

Doing in Oklahoma City and getting them to where they are but it’s going to get a little dicey here because you got a lot of games coming up on Saturday night after for the All-Star break Jason Tatum goes down to New York’s Madison Square Garden against Jaylen Brunson can kind

Of show where he ranks among the players in the east then Luca donic comes here that Friday night at the Garden March 1st then the big one they go out to Denver and that’s where if Tatum has a big night in that game you’re going to see this whole narrative start to shift

And Jason Tatum will move into that conversation to be the potential MVP I was staggered that he was sixth in that straw pole earlier this week it’s time for The Surge to start happening people are slowly going to take notice of all the ways he’s impacting this game

Phil Perry and Chris Forsberg react to comments from Stephen A. Smith who says that people need to stop ignoring Tatum for MVP, as the best player on the best team

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