Hornets player takes subtle shot at Jayson Tatum after win over Celtics

That is a reference to a viral video of Tatum from this past summer. Speaking to high school players in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League last July, Tatum was making a point about not taking any games lightly. 

He used the Hornets as a supposed example of a team that nobody cared about and dropped the line, “Just because we’re playing Charlotte on NBA League Pass on a Monday and ain’t nobody f–king watching, I’m chilling tonight.”

Poetic justice came for Tatum less than four months later though (and as fate would have it, on a Monday night). It was the first time that the Celtics and the Hornets had played each other since Tatum’s comments, and it is safe to say that Charlotte made him remember it.

The four-time All-Star Tatum was actually brilliant individually on Monday, finishing with a season-high 45 points plus 13 rebounds and six assists. But Tatum did have a couple of late miscues, falling asleep on a Gordon Hayward back cut that led to a game-tying dunk with 45 seconds left in overtime and then missing the third of three free throws with 5.0 seconds left that would have tied things at 119. With Tatum usually being the one doing the trolling, he sure got a taste of his own medicine on Monday night.