As most of you know, former Duke star, captain and assistant coach Amile Jefferson left Jon Scheyer’s Duke staff recently to join the Boston Celtics, where he reunited with former Duke teammate Jayson Tatum.
Tatum of course has become an NBA superstar since leaving Duke and recently signed a massive five-year, $163,000,300 contract that will help keep him as a focal point of the Celtics for the foreseeable future (apparently teammate Jaylen Brown is negotiating a deal that is nearly twice as big as Tatum’s, which could make things interesting).
He talks here a bit about Tatum at Duke and what made him different:
“He was super physical, and you don’t really find freshmen that seek out the contact.