00:00the quiet work so that is the name of the documentary episode one dropped last night
00:06uh sort of interesting um talked to his mom in there uh he says that he heard the achilles pop
00:19sounded like uh one of those track guns uh that that go off uh and so uh it ends with
00:28uh kind of
00:29a hospital sign that says uh surgical check-in or whatever so it's five episodes uh that is number
00:36one which is out and available nbc has it and jason tatum has it on his youtube channel uh and
00:46no idea if he's gonna wait until all five episodes air and time maybe he'll maybe the last one will
00:52air
00:53uh right prior to game time and then he will walk from the documentary right out onto the court or
00:59something fireworks uh all kinds of things like that curtis what if what if we're just locked into
01:04like a we don't even know we're a part of the documentary right now like it's just a wild
01:09scene i can't wait for the nba finals to be overshadowed by part 12 of the rehab listening
01:14to him though talk about not having a date in mind it sounds like he's smiling like smirking the entire
01:19time i have i do not believe him for a second that he doesn't have a date in mind what
01:25do you think
01:25he's waiting for like he has said he's brown to get hurt i mean he said that there need to
01:33be 20
01:33people that sign off or whatever i i mean uh is that what you think he's waiting for courtney or
01:40is
01:40he waiting for the documentary to air in in its entirety i don't necessarily think he's waiting
01:44for the documentary documentary to air i think that he picked a date then he set up the documentary to
01:50air leading up to it i think that it's going to happen against the sixers that's why they flex that
01:54game it's just the writing seems to be on the wall there and if he's ready to go which he's
02:00been
02:00talking to people on sidelines you've seen his you know reading his lips saying like i'm good i'm i'm
02:06ready it just to me it there's not a doubt in my mind but if it's the sixers one right
02:11isn't that like
02:12one episode into the documentary if it's once a week i i don't know whether it's i don't know how
02:17often he's i haven't seen a schedule about when they're dropping okay i thought they might i mean i don't
02:22know if it's dropping if he's dropping two or three this week or what i mean that that that game
02:27when is march 1st that is sunday this week correct am i right about that yeah so it's the first
02:32of
02:33march it's like all right unless you're gonna drop all i i just think that i'm with courtney like
02:37i think you he has a specific date right and and it might not be an exact date but there's
02:43a
02:43that's what a specific date means no no but but no like you're saying like all right this is when
02:49you're gonna come back around this time it could be march 2nd 3rd 4th in this window like and i
02:56think
02:56that's the specific date as far as the window of those of those dates i i just don't think like
03:02if
03:02he's still and like i'm not sure if i'm coming back i don't believe that i i feel like he
03:08has a
03:08bullseye on when he wants to come back just tell us i don't know what's the big deal if you
03:15go all
03:15right i'm shooting for march 20th well if it's all based on uh medical and how he responds to
03:24the recovery then he may not have a specific date he may not be able to tell you a specific
03:30date
03:30i i just misread him as a guy like i always thought he was someone that didn't need the attention
03:35like he was sort of that guy that was happy to be the quiet superstar and this year the releases
03:40of
03:41his videos the mouthing of things right before the season began he's dunking right before the
03:45all-star break he's doing like to me this is not what i thought it's not awful i mean almost
03:49every
03:50athlete's like this so it's not unique but i thought he was different in that regard but he
03:54clearly is missing the spotlight just have it like i don't know why you can't tell us the the time
03:59frame
03:59right you don't have to like narrow it down to this specific game but you can put us around that
04:06that area that you were in saying you know what here's where i'm shooting for it might be a little
04:12bit before that it might be a little bit after that but here's what we're shooting for i don't
04:16know why you can't give us that if you're if you're if you know that you want to come back
04:21yeah your
04:22doctors know they could probably say hey jason based on where you are and everything well joe
04:27mizzou won't even tell you if he's doing anything in practice jason practice yesterday he was at practice
04:33did he participate in any of it
04:41yeah but jason tatum's a good businessman like this is we're all talking about it every single day
04:46and if he gave us a clear timeline or a time when he was going to come back we just
04:50wait for that i
04:51think that jason tatum builds his brand quite brilliantly and he's continued to do so with with
04:58the injury like some guys get injured and then fall off the map he has made sure that to keep
05:04himself marketable the entire time like there's a new amica commercial out that i saw yesterday of
05:08him like he has made sure that his injury has not sidelined him from being the center of conversation
05:13for everybody whenever it comes to the celtics but i'm a tatum fan and this doesn't help his brand
05:18like i think it does dame lillard dame lillard said all right i'm done i'm not playing this year
05:23and i think maybe halliburton said the same thing ab should have done this when he burned his feet in
05:27the cryo tank well i would say i would say courtney how does this help his brand because nobody's
05:35talking about dame lillard right because dame lillard said i'm done i'm not playing this year
05:40so so if you give a a timeline if you give a date if you say i'm not coming back
05:46or i am coming back
05:47then people forget about you people don't there's nothing to talk about you gave them what they wanted
05:51what jason tatum has done has only fueled the fire of will he come back or won't he come back
05:56and he's on he's on the top of everybody's mind i would say though differently though courtney sorry
06:01what he says that the thing that tatum would be a conversation but it would just shift instead of
06:05saying when is he going to come back we'd be talking about is how is he going to play and
06:08how
06:08are they going to fit him in when he comes back so he'd be talked about either way right i
06:13i just feel
06:13like all this is done and for and all it's done is puts like i don't i you know a
06:20negative spin on it
06:21like he's doing this because of you know insert negative reason like i i would i would have just been
06:27fine where we all knew that he wanted to play this year and he we all knew that he said
06:33he was going to
06:33do his best to play this year like that's what we know so why not just kind of tell us
06:39like here's
06:40what i'm hoping i get back and i want to get back there's no point to do that so then
06:47why did he
06:48mouth when he was on the floor why he was talking to somebody like on the sideline and then the
06:52camera
06:53caught him i mean i understand why not why not so why did dark and stormy my nights in the
06:58twitch chat
06:59wants to know how it hurts his brand wiggy because it's all been negative it hasn't like
07:04everything that's been around that it's been like we've never talked about anything positive about
07:09tatum coming back with with this it's been oh he's doing this because he wants people to want him back
07:16right well that might just be because we're cynical but that's a negative thing it does bother me
07:23but that's a negative thing greg we're not saying oh we're not saying that's a positive thing nobody's
07:28really i don't think anybody has ever really done a full documentary series on their recovery and
07:35when they will come back you think lebron gets hurt on purpose so he can do another one that gets
07:40more
07:40i mean have you it's been negative all year for tatum it's been how is he they don't miss him
07:45they don't need him when he comes back jalen's been the alpha jalen's great they don't need tatum
07:50why is he rushing back like it's almost all of the conversations surrounding tatum has been
07:55negative regarding his return and even with the return part of it it's like i said people will go
08:01oh he's only doing this because and then that's well he's only doing this because we need to stroke
08:07his ego oh he's only doing this because he's butthurt he's only doing this because he feels a
08:13certain way and the team doesn't love him like there's nothing positive about this i'm sorry jason
08:18tatum doesn't care what any of us think about him he cares about the entire brand and the fact that
08:22he's still being talked about while being sidelined for this entire season until this point so it's
08:28working out in jason tatum's favor i think he would still be talked about if he said hey listen i'm
08:32shooting for end of march we would then be like oh what's team gonna look like when tatum comes back
08:38but you're you're saying why doesn't he give us like a date or a clarification if he's definitely
08:42coming back or not like that takes away everything we talk about will he come back will he won't come
08:47back how is he gonna fit in when it comes to jalen brown how's jalen brown going to feel about
08:51him
08:52coming back it takes away all of that if he says yeah guys i have decided i will be back
08:56this season
08:57it changes the entire narrative but how does that stop the jalen brown conversation
09:03well what do you mean you said it stops the jalen brown conversation about whose team is it when
09:07when tatum comes back that's literally the first thing we're going to talk about
09:12like how are they going to play together how is jalen going to go to his role last year how's
09:15the offense going to work missoula's got a really tough job like we'll be getting into all that right
09:19well yeah i think it changes the conversation to be more will jason tatum be the same player he was
09:24before the injury and how is that going to affect jalen brown's role yeah sure but i just think that
09:29without giving any clarification at all positive or negative it opens the door for any conversation
09:35when it comes to this team and that only helps the celtics it only helps jason tatum but he already
09:39told us before like at the beginning of the season that his plan was to come back i remember we
09:45we we
09:45had him on talking with somebody and they were like oh you uh so are you gonna miss the share
09:51something along those lines and he was like i never said that so like the the we all thought
09:57that he was coming back before the season even started so why do we need this big on you know
10:03why
10:04do we need a you know for this whole dog and pony show about you coming back when you already
10:09told us
10:09you were coming back yeah i haven't said i'm not planning to see i'm surprised that you feel that
10:16way because you are a huge tatum stan right because it's all negative i just don't think he wants to
10:22set
10:23expectations like that's the whole thing is if he sets a date but then there's a setback then it's like
10:28oh no here we go no no things are going wrong but shy i'm fine with that just be like
10:33but you don't
10:34all you have to do is be my goal is to come back also you can't set expectations any higher
10:40than a
10:41five series documentary a five-part documentary series i mean that that's setting the expectations
10:49extraordinarily high right of all things this is the last thing i would do if i didn't want to be
10:54in
10:54the news right did you consider doing a five-part docuseries after puppy gate i did yes i thought about
11:00it
11:00you
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