Scanning the list, he eventually noticed the 25-year-old Tatum ranked fifth in the current DraftKings odds of who is expected to be the 2024 MVP. Given Tatum’s performances this season, combined with the Celtics’ success through the team’s first 57 games, Green was baffled by the lower ranking. “The Celtics are 7.5 games ahead of the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference,” Green explained. “Do people think the Celtics are that great to where Jayson Tatum is only in fifth? Sometimes it’s like, that team is winning and that guy is the best player and playing well. In this situation, clearly that’s not the goalpost. “Clearly the goalposts have shifted dramatically, because in this guy’s case, he’s fifth? And [the Celtics] have a 7.5-game lead in the conference? The goalposts have moved on Jayson Tatum,” Green reiterated. “I know what JT has to do. JT will not be taken seriously for MVP until he wins a championship, and it just hasn’t been that way for everybody else, I must say.” -via Boston Globe / February 27, 2024
