{"id":45018,"date":"2025-03-20T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=45018"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:19:28","slug":"jayson-tatum-sent-classy-gift-to-alma-mater-duke-ahead-of-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=45018","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum Sent Classy Gift to Alma Mater Duke Ahead of March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_5914,h_3326,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/si\/01jprr5yj5q3ay2zdzw1.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"tagStyle_jjmvck-o_O-style_gt0nzj-o_O-sidesPadding_1kaga1a\">\n<div>Tatum sent a thoughtful gift to his alma mater before March Madness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_ycr6kxkwf\">Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum showed some support for his alma mater, Duke, ahead of March Madness. Prior to the start of the tournament, Tatum, who played one season at Duke from 2016-17, sent pairs of his Jordan Brand shoes to each player on the Duke women&#8217;s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_rmtuo0b9j\">Blue Devils coach Kara Lawson announced the gift to the team saying Tatum is her favorite NBA player because he&#8217;s a winner. She went on to say: &#8220;I admired him. He admires you guys too. He sent you some of his shoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">our guy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaytatum0?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaytatum0<\/a> always getting us right <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdDbOjVvbu\">pic.twitter.com\/rdDbOjVvbu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Duke Women\u2019s Basketball (@DukeWBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DukeWBB\/status\/1902506991760605435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_m7so8626b\">The team cheered in response to the gesture from Tatum. Duke guard Emma Koabel was seen saying, &#8220;thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_bv2np12lq\">Guard Taina Mair said, &#8220;Ay, special shoutout to Jayson Tatum for sending some shoes. The home team baby! We appreciate it! Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_02era3cz2\">Duke is making their third consecutive March Madness appearance and holds a No. 2 seed as they seek their first national championship win. They will make their 2025 NCAA Tournament debut on Friday against No. 15 Lehigh. If they win, they will go on to face the winner of Oregon-Vanderbilt next.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_72rtw08ez\">The men&#8217;s team, ranked highly as well as a No. 1 seed, will also play their first game of the tournament on Friday, going up against No. 16 Mount St. Mary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum sent a nice gift to his alma mater Duke before March Madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jayson Tatum Sent Classy Gift to Alma Mater Duke Ahead of March Madness - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=45018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jayson Tatum Sent Classy Gift to Alma Mater Duke Ahead of March Madness - 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