‘Stephen Curry vs Jayson Tatum for the light skinned championship’?: NBA Fans rip into Shannon Sharpe for dismissing co-stars Jaylen Brown and Andrew Wiggins in the NBA Finals

Arun Sharma | 01/06/2022
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Shannon Sharpe thinks only Steph Curry and Jayson Tatum are the two people worth watching – Jaylen Brown is being ignored again.

Jaylen Brown has been averaging 22.9-6.8-3.5 in 18 games in the 2022 playoffs – but his name rarely comes up in conversations when speaking about the best players in the playoffs. It may be because Jayson Tatum has been the more marketable star, and has been playing at an efficient high level.

The same goes for Andrew Wiggins on the Golden State Warriors. The man has been balling his socks off, while all the cameras are on Steph Curry. Steph has had a subdued playoff so far, nothing close to the explosive 5-year stretch he had between 2015-2019. The load has been shared almost equally amongst everyone on the Warriors, but Steph is the only one getting any mentions.

The media narrative would seem so much better if it looked like a single man dragging each team to the finals, so they’ve been rolling with it. Even big names like Shannon Sharpe have joined the bandwagon to call this the “battle of the light skins” – a head-to-head between JT and SC.

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Jaylen Brown deserves more respect – and Shannon needs to reel back the racist undertones a bit

Despite being a strong contender to play for the Celtics these whole playoffs, all he’s gotten so far is “they said he cannot play with Jayson Tatum”. Nobody is ready to recognize the work he’s put in, and the effort to share the workload with his buddy and junior.

Andrew Wiggins is another guy who’s been threatening to bubble over for a while, putting up strong numbers as the third option on the team. Klay and Steph may be the splash brothers, but Wiggins is the one making the second unit tick.

Fans may like a head-to-head narrative, but not when race and color are brought into it. Media narratives should be impartial, clean, and sober, not bringing something as delicate as a race into the discussion so easily. If this comment was said by someone other than Shannon, there would be a huge hue and cry!

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Post Edited By: Ashish Priyadarshi
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About the author

Arun Sharma

Arun Sharma is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. A double degree holder and a digital marketer by trade, Arun has always been a sports buff. He fell in love with the sport of basketball at a young age and has been a Lakers fan since 2006. What started as a Kobe Bryant obsession slowly turned into a lifelong connection with the purple and gold. Arun has been an ardent subscriber to the Mamba mentality and has shed tears for a celebrity death only once in his life. He believes January 26, 2020, was the turning point in the passage of time because Kobe was the glue holding things together. From just a Lakers bandwagoner to a basketball fanatic, Arun has spent 16 long years growing up along with the league. He thinks Stephen Curry has ruined basketball forever, and the mid-range game is a sight to behold. Sharma also has many opinions about football (not the American kind), F1, MotoGP, tennis, and cricket.

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