Excellent piece, and glad he's on your radar. There's one other factor to his everyman popularity that I think matters here: Jeff Teague is definitely NOT a male model like Jordan or Kobe or Jeter or Brady, on top of the athletic skills. He kind of looks like a Black Groucho Marx! This is a fantastic asset for storytelling because his face is super expressive and warm and disarming. And it also means he probably wasn't ploughing through all the 10s in Atlanta and Milwaukee, even in his prime. So it's another major way he's much more of a regular guy than most NBA players.
I'll have to listen to Teague - he sounds intriguing in that he will tell us all what we can easily see: lack of caring, social media excesses, getting PAID is #1, lackluster defense .... in other words some of the things that make watching today's NBA practically unwatchable.
Excellent piece, and glad he's on your radar. There's one other factor to his everyman popularity that I think matters here: Jeff Teague is definitely NOT a male model like Jordan or Kobe or Jeter or Brady, on top of the athletic skills. He kind of looks like a Black Groucho Marx! This is a fantastic asset for storytelling because his face is super expressive and warm and disarming. And it also means he probably wasn't ploughing through all the 10s in Atlanta and Milwaukee, even in his prime. So it's another major way he's much more of a regular guy than most NBA players.
Lol thats brutal. I dont think he had a problem ploughing through 10’s
"How do you compete with the professional approach and high end guest list of JJ Redick?"
It's simple: don't be that insufferable, conceited Dukie JJ Redick.
I'll have to listen to Teague - he sounds intriguing in that he will tell us all what we can easily see: lack of caring, social media excesses, getting PAID is #1, lackluster defense .... in other words some of the things that make watching today's NBA practically unwatchable.
I have no comment - seems most people don't- but this was still kind of interesting. I will try the podcast.
Or maybe this is a Woj thing and Ethan and Teague share an agent...
huh the mcafee comparison is interesting, but seems apt
Kudos to Ethan for the cross racial comparison.