{"id":19115,"date":"2023-06-07T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/shaquille-oneal-suggests-celtics-should-split-jaylen-brown-and-jayson-tatum\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:05:42","slug":"shaquille-oneal-suggests-celtics-should-split-jaylen-brown-and-jayson-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/shaquille-oneal-suggests-celtics-should-split-jaylen-brown-and-jayson-tatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal suggests Celtics should split Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/jb-e1680632671735-696x470.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jaylen Brown\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1642180023586103299\/photo\/1\">Boston Celtics\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>NBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal has raised eyebrows with his recent comments about the Celtics\u2019 star duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. O\u2019Neal believes that the Celtics should consider splitting up the talented pair, emphasizing the need for a clear leader and a supporting cast of role players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want five stars on my team. I want a guy that I can go to every night, I want a guy that\u2019s going to lead, and I want three dogs, three others,\u201d O\u2019Neal expressed on The Big Three Podcast, via Ashish Mathur of Yardbarker.com. \u201cI would prefer if they were specialists: one to be a shooter, one to be a rebounder, and one to be a fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal further explained his rationale, suggesting that the Celtics could use one of the two players to acquire the missing pieces they need to complement their roster. While he acknowledged Tatum\u2019s status as the number one player, he proposed utilizing Brown in a trade to bring in a player who could fulfill a specific role for the team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZOVwtExtY54\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shaq Says Tatum &amp; Brown Should Split | Gary Payton On Heat Culture + Errol Spence Joins The Big Pod\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOVwtExtY54?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Brown and Tatum have been teammates for six years, and their partnership has yielded several deep playoff runs, including three Eastern Conference Finals appearances and one trip to the NBA Finals. However, O\u2019Neal believes that restructuring the team\u2019s composition could lead to greater success.<\/p>\n<p>This past season Brown averaged 26.6 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in 35.9 minutes per game, while Tatum posted impressive numbers of 30.1 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 4.6 assists in 36.9 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Boston Celtics\/Twitter NBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal has raised eyebrows with his recent comments about the Celtics\u2019 star duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. O\u2019Neal believes that the Celtics should consider splitting up the talented pair, emphasizing the need for a clear leader and a supporting cast of role players. \u201cI don\u2019t want five<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[555,291,651,1220,261,4220,4219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19117,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions\/19117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}