Jayson Tatum, Celtics Olympians largely absent from new Netflix docuseries
The Celtics’ three Olympians are rarely seen and never heard from in the new Netflix docuseries “Court of Gold.”
In several of his appearances in “Court of Gold,” Netflix’s new behind-the-scenes look at the 2024 Olympic men’s basketball tournament, Kevin Durant is sporting a black Boston Bruins baseball cap.
That hat gets more screen time in the docuseries than all three of the Celtics’ Olympians combined.
Despite making up a quarter of Team USA’s gold medal-winning roster in Paris, Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday and Derrick White are hardly seen and never heard from over the show’s six episodes, which premiered Tuesday.
Tatum’s playing time controversy is referenced multiple times, with head coach Steve Kerr explaining the difficulty of divvying up minutes within the most talented U.S. team in decades. But Tatum is mentioned by name just twice: in a brief soundbite of pundits debating his group-stage DNP against Serbia, and later by Durant while the latter discusses wanting to learn from younger players’ routines.
Boston’s three-time All-NBA centerpiece also did not leave the bench in Team USA’s epic semifinal rematch against Serbia, during which the Americans fell behind by 17 points before rallying to win. Tatum finished the tournament with just 71 minutes played (second-fewest on the team) and 21 points scored (third-fewest) across six games.
“I think the hardest part of the job for me is playing time,” Kerr says in one interview. “Even picking the rotations. How do you put seven Hall of Famers on the bench? I’ve told the team, this is hard for us, too. It’s hard for you to not play. It’s hard for us to not play you.
“But let’s understand what this is about. Basketball is just basketball. There’s so many more important things going on in the world. And yet, when we’re on the court, it is the most important thing. It matters to be your best self. It matters to be part of something special. It matters to put something on the floor that can make people happy.”
The only direct mention of White — who was called in to replace an injured Kawhi Leonard during pre-Olympic training camp — or Holiday comes during a mic’d-up conversation in practice between Kerr and guard Tyrese Haliburton.
“The last two games, I went with Derrick just for defensive purposes on the switching and stuff,” Kerr tells Haliburton, the only U.S. player who played fewer minutes in Paris than Tatum. “But just stay ready. Every game’s going to be different. Like, the Serbia game, we decided to drop on everything against (Nikola) Jokic, and that was way better than the switching. So we’re going to go back and forth between the drop and the switch. But my experience with this stuff, every game’s going to be a little bit different.”
White and Holiday each appeared in five of Team USA’s six games, serving as defense-focused role players.
A deeper dive into Tatum’s minimal role, ideally with perspective from the Celtics star himself, would have made for compelling TV. But as was the case with this U.S. roster — which featured, in Kerr’s words, “12 Hall of Famers” — the Netflix doc only had a limited number of available minutes, especially since it followed the Serbian, Canadian and French squads, as well.
The American players most prominently featured are, understandably, the old-head trio of Durant, Stephen Curry and LeBron James, who were arguably Team USA’s three best players in what likely was their final Olympic Games. Beyond them, Bam Adebayo and Anthony Edwards have the largest arcs.
The U.S. seemingly did not allow Netflix cameras into its locker room during games, but the other three featured teams did, and those look-ins produced some of the series’ most compelling moments. Among them: Serbia’s coach ripping into his players at halftime for failing to guard Durant; Nicolas Batum doing the same to his French teammates while they were getting blown out by Germany in pool play; Moritz Wagner sobbing after Germany lost to France in the semis; and the beginning of Serbia’s all-day party after it won bronze, during which, a smiling Bogdan Bogdanovich said, the medalists “wanted to be historically drunk.”
The thrilling gold medal game between the U.S. and host France also gets the spotlight it deserves, culminating in a 360-degree breakdown of Curry’s game-clinching, off-balance, rainbow 3-pointer, which Kerr calls “one of the greatest moments in basketball history.”
“As a player, it’s tough,” says Batum, the French captain. “But sometimes you have to respect, like, that was insane. 99.99999% of the players in the world would have missed that shot. Only one guy could have made it: him.”
“It was a dream come true, obviously some storybook-type stuff, to have it end that way,” Curry says. “Yeah, I’ll take it. It was pretty special.”
Originally Published: February 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM EST
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