Jayson Tatum clapped his hands once in frustration after a foul call Monday. The refs slapped him with a technical.
Jayson Tatum was called for a technical foul on this play. pic.twitter.com/vqFDG74hfj
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 15, 2022
It was a shockingly small reaction from Tatum get tagged with a technical. It was a single clap, and not even particularly directed at anyone besides himself.
Tuesday, the NBA agreed.
The @NBA is rescinding Jayson Tatum’s technical foul from last night, the hand clap called by John Goble, according to an NBA source. #Celtics.
— gary washburn (@GwashburnGlobe) November 15, 2022
The league reversed the call after reviewing the footage. Though they might have been embarrassed into the move by everyone laughing at them.
Jayson tatum just received the worst tech I’ve seen in the nba in a while. I’m actually laughing
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) November 15, 2022
Durant doesn't mince words on Twitter, and he didn't hold back here either. Can you get fined for criticizing the officiating of a game you didn't play in?
Tatum also laughed about it when he talked to reporters after the game.
The NBA reportedly is rescinding Jayson Tatum's technical foul from Monday night
— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) November 15, 2022
Tatum laughed off the bizarre sequence after the game ▶ https://t.co/7NRuJNs2xv pic.twitter.com/f33dSCJ1a1
"Anybody in the arena, anybody watching the game, could have seen I was frustrated with myself," Tatum told reporters. "I didn’t say anything, I didn’t look at him. So, after the game, you can just laugh it off when you see it."
It's fortunate for Tatum that the technical got reversed because it would have been his fourth of the season, and put him on pace to exceed 16 on the season — which is an automatic suspension. And suspensions are no laughing matter.
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