{~}Official 2023/2024 NBA Thread - 2024 Summer League, USA Hoops
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Bullshit, dude was in his son's life
Tatum was exposed to basketball early as he often attended his father’s college games and played with the ball, even as a toddler, the Boston Globe wrote. After college, Justin Tatum pursued a career in the Netherlands, meaning that Tatum didn’t see his father very often when he was younger.
Cole-Barnes told ESPN that her son always knew his dad and Justin Tatum was in his son’s life but the two never lived together and Tatum was around 8 years old when his dad returned from overseas.
Justin Tatum began coaching varsity basketball at Soldan High and the Globe reported that the future NBA star joined their practices at the age of nine onward. “By the time he was 12, he was giving my players problems,” Justin Tatum shared. In fact, he became his son’s coach and Tatum revealed that he was very hard on him.
During a candid interview on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” Tatum shared that having his father as a coach put a “strain” on their father-son relationship and their entire connection was based on basketball. He recalled his father yelling and swearing at him during matches and he’d push him up against the lockers as the young boy bawled. “I felt like he didn’t like me as a kid because he was so mean to me,” Tatum said. “Of course he did, but as a kid, I couldn’t separate coach and dad.”
Tatum and his father have a great relationship now and the NBA star has credited his father for pushing him to become the player he is now.
If I told people that was jaylen brown's father they would believe it!!
His mom did get pregnant during spring breakIf I told people that was jaylen brown's father they would believe it!!
ask you are not a celtics fan I would not expect you to know.
as you just posted everything I just said. he was not a father. he was a coach.
everything you posted talks about coaching.
he was not in the household....IE father
Come on now you think he wasn't there for Christmas, Birthdays, or took Jason to the movies? Or do you think he just show up to Train Jason for an hour and then tell him "Peace out nigga" ?
pretty much exactly what you said. Birthdays, Christmas.
But for coaching he was a great coach, but he was too young to be a father to tatum.
So he wanted no part of that day to day stuff.
the Lou is a tough place. so at least he kept Tatum off the streets as a coach
That is why you never see lil duece without Tatum...he said he will never be that way with his kids
BGOL hates seeing Lil Duece everywhere Tatum is but that is the feeling you get when you never had a father.
and lil duece does not have a mother in his life
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These studios have so much money to waste
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