Jayson Tatum likes beating MVPs. Still nervous about the Heat, play-off Butler is real and they need to get their defence sorted.
Ja is a multi-millionaire ($40m according to Spotrac so far) who could lose his contract with Memphis tomorrow and get signed by someone else, probably for more money. Like Kyrie, it's starting to feel like this is who he is going to be because the punishments have so far been small (which sounds crazy to say about over half a million dollars but that's likely to be less than 1% of his total career earnings) and are unlikely to have an effect. The league is going to have to decide how much they want to involve themselves here, especially as you could argue that they're starting to infringe on his rights (obviously not to be discussed here), because teams are going to pay him if he's available.