Celtics’ Jayson Tatum Traded To Lakers In Fourth Grade for $97.9m

    Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum is having himself an incredible summer. He began it by winning his first

    Jayson Tatum, the Boston Celtics forward, is having an outstanding summer. He started by winning his first NBA championship, then signed the largest deal in NBA history with a supermax contract, and now he’s hoping to win a gold medal with Team USA alongside Los Angeles Lakers players LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

    By all accounts, this summer appears to be a dream come true for Tatum. In fact, playing for Team USA at the Olympics was a very specific dream that he wrote about in a fourth grade essay.

    He spoke about wanting to be the first player from St. Louis to play for the United States Olympic basketball team, a goal he has now accomplished.

    But the Celtics star envisioned himself wearing a different NBA jersey when he made these dreams happen. In the same essay, via SportsCenter, Tatum predicted that he would be traded to the Lakers by the time he’s 30:

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