Jayson Tatum has not seen his name in any legitimate trade rumors this summer. He is now the cornerstone of Boston’s championship hopes and, as such, is off the table.
However, just about every other Celtic has seen their name pop up — there are Jaylen Brown rumors, Marcus Smart rumors, plus Derrick White, Robert Williams III and others have been mentioned — as Boston’s front office debates whether to stick with its core or go all in for next season with a Kevin Durant trade.
How do players deal with that? Tatum told Justin Quinn of Celtics Wire that as a pro, a player just has to learn to “control what they can control” and tune out the noise.
That’s the world we live in, right? It always comes from an anonymous source. But it always makes ESPN or Twitter or whatever, and everybody sees it.