When asked about how his friendship with Jaylen Brown got stronger through hard times, Celtics star Jayson Tatum tells it like it is. 

I find it hard to believe that earlier in the season, some people said the Boston Celtics were done for the season. As always, the ship was not stable, and rumors spread that the players were turning against each other.

Jayson Tatum knows about all the trouble, and he just recently talked about his friendship with Jaylen Brown, who plays for the Celtics. Even though there were some bad days earlier in the season, Tatum said that they always knew they would make it through:

“It’s just two young extremely competitive guys that just really want to win at all cost. I think, obviously, that made us closer in the sense that we just wanted to figure it out. Not necessarily prove people wrong, but just prove that we can win and put ourselves in a position to do that,” said the Celtics superstar, via NBA on Twitter. “And it was tough. At certain times, we were 3 games under .500 and the 11th seed. I’m sure not many would have people thought we would have gotten to this point. But there was always a sense of belief between us and the group that we were capable of figuring it out.”

Early in the season, things got so bad for the Celtics that rumors started to spread of a possible move for Brown. It’s clear that those stories didn’t hold up over time, and the Celtics have done an amazing job of fighting through tough times to get where they are now.