Charles Barkley on Steve Kerr’s coaching vs. Serbia: ‘There’s no reason for him not to play Jayson Tatum’

Porzingis will miss the opening weeks of the season after leg surgery, which is the injury he suffered in the Finals. So Tillman and the other big men will be especially important early on as the Celtics eye back-to-back titles. For now, the C’s will enjoy the summer ahead of training camp. “To see the video of the bench — (Jayson Tatum), Svi (Mykhailiuk), Jaden (Springer), everybody going crazy after I hit the 3, I was like, ‘Man, that’s sweet.’” Tillman said. “To see the team really like hype over me making that shot. So that was pretty cool.” -via Booth Newspapers / August 15, 2024

“I keep trying to say, I’m trying not to make it about me, all the storylines over the last few days — we won,” Tatum said after the Americans’ 98-87 triumph over France, in which Tatum did play and contributed two points and three rebounds in 11 minutes. “We won a gold medal, and that was most important.” -via New York Times / August 12, 2024

Jayson Tatum said his limited role playing for Team USA this summer will not affect his decision to play for the national team in the future. Tatum did not play in two of the six games in the Olympics, including the semifinal victory over Serbia on Thursday. He then came off the bench in the first quarter and played 11 minutes in Team USA’s victory in the gold medal game Saturday against France, scoring two points with three rebounds. “It was a tough personal experience on the court, but I’m not going to make any decision off emotions,” Tatum said. “If you asked me right now if I was going to play in 2028 — it is four years from now and I [would have] to take time and think about that. So I’m not going to make any decision based off how this experience was or how I felt individually.” -via ESPN / August 11, 2024

Charles Barkley: America is still sexist. Well we can throw race in there too, they’re racist too. So it’s a lot of moving parts. I’m not a Donald Trump guy. I just think if you’re gonna be the president you need to act a certain way. Even if I disagree with your politics, you’re the president of the United States, you should be a gentleman and act a certain way. I’ve got to learn more about Kamala Harris’ policies. The border thing is a big deal to me. In some of these cities they’re getting benefits that Americans don’t get. That cannot happen under any circumstances! I’m all for immigration if it’s done the right way, but we just can’t have people jumping over here and giving them Health Care, putting them up, giving them stipends and things like that. That cannot happen, we got so many amazing people who bust their asses all the time, we need to be taking care of those people so she’s going to have to address the immigration thing for me. -via YouTube / August 15, 2024

Charles Barkley: They got Joker but the second-best player on their team was Bogdan Bogdanovic. Does Bogdanovic make the United States Olympic team? Under no circumstances he makes the Olympic team. I think they played too slow because you could see what Joker was doing. He was milking the clock, he would take the ball out of bounds and roll it up the court. They turned a 40-minute game basically into like a 35, 37-minute game. -via YouTube / August 15, 2024

ClutchPoints: “First of all, listen, don’t bring up… A guy who averaged five points a game. I’m not gonna stoop to his level. You average five points a game. Shut the hell up.” Charles Barkley goes OFF on Kendrick Perkins 😳 (via @LeBatardShow ) -via Twitter / August 15, 2024