{"id":755725,"date":"2026-06-08T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/755725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:27:16","slug":"jayson-tatum-gets-a-dubious-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/755725\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum Gets A Dubious Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This will come as a bit of a surprise to Duke fans, but the nation\u2019s second-most hated NBA player?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He\u2019s also the second-most hated NBA player nationally, including in Los Angeles, which is understandable given the intensity of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, and also, for some reason, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He\u2019s also the most-hated in the Southeast, which we would put down to UNC and Kentucky fans, primarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The only guy more hated than Tatum? Draymond Green,and that\u2019s no surprise, given his erratic and often offensive behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to RotoWire, \u201cHis combination of genuine superstar talent and a perceived smug on-court demeanor makes him the perfect villain for anyone not rooting for Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Okay, makes sense from a particular point of view, probably. To us, though, and probably most Duke fans, he\u2019s a likable guy. He clearly adores his son, Deuce, and also puts the kid and his mom in his TV ads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Part of it is naturally Boston. Either you like the Celtics, or you don\u2019t. But a bigger part of it is probably Duke. And with Jon Scheyer doing a great job at Duke &#8211; in some ways, arguably better than Mike Krzyzewski &#8211; Duke hatred, which took a brief break after Coach K retired, is not going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This will come as a bit of a surprise to Duke fans, but the nation\u2019s second-most hated NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[9008,7,37710],"class_list":["post-755725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alumni","tag-basketball","tag-main"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116714487397043086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}