Jayson Tatum Loses $33 Million Thanks to All NBA Team Vote Technicality

Bonuses can be major incentive to ball out, but for a few NBA guys, that Bonus didn’t work out. The three 2020-21 All-NBA teams were announced on Tuesday, and a couple notable names were left off: Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell. And it cost them both a boatload of money, about $33 million each.

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Had they been named to an All NBA team, they would have been swimming in money.

The Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell rookie max extension will stay at 25% of the cap in 2021-22.

Both were eligible to receive an additional $33M if named All-NBA.

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) June 16, 2021

If either of these two made the All-NBA this season, the extension they each signed this past offseason would’ve been worth $196 million over four years.

Now Mitchell and Tatum will make $163 million.

Not exactly chump change, but still, $33 million is a pretty big deal.

Tatum has to be pissed, he really got screwed out of the money over a technicality.

Interesting twist in the All-NBA voting. Tatum was eligible as a guard and forward and had more votes than Kyrie, who made the third team as a guard. But Tatum was slotted as a forward because that was the position where he received the most votes.

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) June 16, 2021

Here’s the list below:

All NBA Teams… Who do you think got ROBBED the most?? pic.twitter.com/7RkgirFWrh

— Mike Korzemba (@mikekorz) June 16, 2021

The voters owe Mitchell and Tatum an apology.

The voters have way too much power…

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