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Also known as Jayson Christopher Tatum

American basketball player (born 1998)

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Baby Dunks-a-Lot: The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing
  • Baby Dunks-A-Lot

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Film & TV

Acting · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Jayson Christopher Tatum Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A McDonald's All-American in high school in Missouri, he played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.

Known for

  • Court of Gold — Self2025
  • Celtics City — Himself2025
  • Chasing History: The 2024 Finals Mini Movie — Self2024
  • Raising 18: The 2023-24 NBA Champion Boston Celtics2024
  • Raising 18 - NBA Feature Documentary — Himself2024
  • Starting 5 — Self2024
  • Bill Russell: Legend — Self - Boston Celtics2023
  • The 2022 NBA Finals2022
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest2003

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1909-10-13
Active to
1956-11-05

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
253
Total plays
321

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jayson+Tatum">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Jayson Tatum

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

    · 2009 · cited 3,524x

  2. An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

    · 2012 · cited 3,091x

  3. Ovarian cancer

    · 2014 · cited 1,643x

  4. Genomic variation in 3,010 diverse accessions of Asian cultivated rice

    · 2018 · cited 1,505x

  5. Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy

    · 2008 · cited 1,323x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Position
Small forward / power forward
League
NBA
Born
( 1998-03-03 ) March 3, 1998 (age 28) , St. Louis , Missouri, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight
210 lb (95 kg)
High school
Chaminade , ( Creve Coeur, Missouri )
College
Duke (2016–2017)
Nba draft
2017 : 1st round, 3rd overall pick
Drafted by
Boston Celtics
Playing career
2017–present
2017 present
Boston Celtics

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Basketball
Team
Boston Celtics
Position
Small Forward
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

~38 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Jayson Christopher Tatum Sr. (/ˈteɪtəm/ TAY-təm; born March 3, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a McDonald's All-American in high school in Missouri and played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. Tatum was selected by the Boston Celtics with the third overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft and was voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in the 2018 season. Tatum won the inaugural NBA Eastern Conference finals MVP in 2022, and won his first title in the 2024 NBA Finals.

Nicknamed "the Anomaly", Tatum is a six-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection (including four first-team selections). He and Jaylen Brown make up the Celtics' "Jays" duo. In 2024, Tatum led the team to a league-best 64 wins and a championship in the NBA Finals. Tatum also won a gold medal with the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Olympic teams. He holds the records for most points scored in an NBA All-Star Game (55), most points scored in a Game 7 of any NBA playoffs series (51), and most points scored in the NBA playoffs at his age.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jayson Tatum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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