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Earlier than placing the ending touches on a really eventful summer season and beginning to prepare for the 2024-25 NBA season, Jayson Tatum stopped by The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon to indicate off his musical chops.
The Boston Celtics star challenged Jimmy Fallon to a good-natured rap battle about their kids’s books.
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.@jaytatum0 challenges Jimmy to a rap battle about their kids’s books, Child Dunks-a-Lot and 5 Extra Sleeps ‘Til Halloween 🎤 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/3yHWPOllnw
Child-Dunks-a-Lot is an image guide impressed by Tatum’s life and profession. Fallon authored 5 Extra Sleeps ‘Til Halloween, the most recent installment in his sequence that started with a Christmas guide that was printed in 2020.
This does not precisely rise to the degrees of a Kendrick-Drake battle. At the least this one ends with each of the contributors complimenting one another, culminating with Tatum bragging about his two huge wins on the basketball courtroom throughout the summer season.
Regardless of the entire dialogue round Tatum’s position and utilization on Workforce USA, he definitely had the most effective three-month stretches for any basketball participant in historical past. The five-time All-Star captured his first NBA championship, signed the richest contract in league historical past and gained an Olympic gold medal.
Tatum does have an extended strategy to go as a rapper, however he can work on that in his spare time throughout the upcoming NBA season.
The Celtics are scheduled to open coaching camp on Sept. 25. They may open the preseason with two video games in opposition to the Denver Nuggets on Oct. 4 and 6.
Boston will start protection of its NBA championship on Oct. 22 in opposition to the New York Knicks at TD Backyard.
