It was a surprise, to everyone. It was likely even a surprise to the front office of the Atlanta Hawks. It’s certainly a unique negotiating strategy – place a blue chip point guard on the market and while you negotiate his inclusion in what could be a franchise changing transaction, the blue chip point guard takes to social media to tell the world how he played an entire season injured.
Well, in essence that is what happened when Jeff Teague cut loose on instagram on June 9, 2016.
jeffteague They won’t tell ya’ll but I played with a tear in my patella and could barely jump or stop but it’s coo that got taken care #illbebackdunking #theywontsaythatpart – jeff teague’s instagram on June 9, 2016 at 07:30 AM
The reason the instagram is transcribed and not linked directly is that the message was deleted shortly thereafter.