What has the team been playing recently? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nCovington: \u201cWe\u2019ve been going Rick Ross a lot, obviously. Usually, whenever we\u2019re on the road, we try to find like an artist that\u2019s from that city and usually play like the songs that we like from there. This series has pretty much been like a lot of Rick Ross, DJ Khaled type of music that a lot of these guys know. Kodak for sure. We were playing Kodak at shoot around the other day yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
How did that end up becoming a thing? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cMe, Jayson, we\u2019ll talk, we\u2019ll be like, alright, who\u2019s from Atlanta, who\u2019s from Philly? So we always try to find like the best artists and the best songs that usually come from that. It\u2019s hard, especially when you got guys like, Rick Ross has so much music in his catalog. To try to feel like the best songs and then the ones that are like hype, try to get the guys going because that\u2019s the biggest thing. A lot of these guys can be motivated from just hearing music and stuff like that, <\/strong>and then after playing them guys a bunch of times in the regular season, we know what songs that guys like to hear.\u201d<\/p>\nWhen did that start? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThat pretty much started my first year. So I started January 2021 and that\u2019s really how me and him actually really kind of got close was through music, you know, talking about it, finding out we both, our favorite artist is both Jay Z. So that\u2019s really how it started. So I\u2019ll say January 2021 and it\u2019s been going literally ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n
How did you become a Jay Z fan? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cSo for me, it was my older brother got me. I have an older brother that is 15 years older than me and he grew up listening to Jay. So we yeah, he\u2019s 15 years older than me. So that was, that\u2019s his favorite artist as well. So he was growing up, that\u2019s really all I heard all the time. I was listening to it as a kid and as I got older and really kind of starting to understand what he\u2019s actually talking about. That\u2019s why I really started to like him even more besides just hearing him growing up. So that\u2019s kind of how that started and then my first day here, literally, my first date was a game. And when I, since I got here, I think JT was coming in to like warm up and he was going to be playing like a Jay Z song that I\u2019ve never heard before. I was like, hey, like, I never heard that song before and then like that literally, it was like our first conversation and it was, it was, it was, oh man, I did it my way off the blueprint off the Blueprint II<\/em>. And I\u2019ve never heard that song and I swear I heard every Jay Z song before. I was, oh, what\u2019s this? Ever since then, that\u2019s literally like how we kind of built our connection. So when I came in, he had the iPad and like, you know, he was picking on the songs that he liked and it was like multiple Jay Z songs and like old school Jay Z songs, like not commercial and different things like that. So I was like, oh, ok.\u201d<\/p>\nWhat is your main role with the Celtics? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m a performance coach. This is my third season. What that entails is strength and conditioning and the sports science, so I have a dual role in that sense. Before the Celtics, I spent two years with the Warriors\u2019 organization heading their G League trend conditioning program, doing that for two years, and being able to assist, once that season was over, with Golden State. So that was nice from 2018 to 20 January 2021. Before that, I got my start in the league 2017 to 2018 season with the Indiana Pacers as a performance coach intern. So this is like my sixth year total in the league. Prior to this, I was a GA at LIU Brooklyn and I graduated from Delaware State University in my undergrad. So it\u2019s kind of like my road, but everywhere I\u2019ve been, I guess when I was running my own teams, when I was in college, I would always make playlists, because I always just felt like even for me, I played sports in high school and music for me is something that always kind of just got me in my zone and I feel like whether you\u2019re a professional athlete, whether you\u2019re just going to the gym to get a workout and you\u2019re going on a run.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like music has a unique way of motivating people and I always wanted to put my athletes in the best opportunity to train, whether we\u2019re blasting music, we doing competitions. I want everybody to be engaged and to really feel it. I started making playlists there and then that kind of followed me to the league when I was interning with the Pacers, nobody would put anything on. So I was like, hey, you know, I\u2019ll do it. So, I kind of started there from when I was an intern and then I was doing the same thing when I went to the Warriors organization, I was making playlists. I wish I had my phone on me. I still have playlists from like playoff games with the Pacers, playoff games with the Warriors. Even now here, so that\u2019s kind of how it started. I have a nickname here, Sleep, that everyone calls me. So like, whenever we get to the arena, I\u2019ll hear like JT or somebody say like DJ sleep, what are we listening to? So that\u2019s kind of how it always happens and now it\u2019s like that\u2019s just my unofficial role.\u201d <\/p>\n
What\u2019s your process like? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cYeah, so like during that time when I first got here, I didn\u2019t want to like step on any toes like I was just new. So I didn\u2019t know and then there was a few times on a road where either him or other guys would be like, what are you listening to? Or it is like quiet. Nobody has an ipad. Everybody looks at me like, oh what\u2019s going on? What are we doing? What are we doing? So I\u2019m like, alright from now on I know like this is another one of one of my roles, so it\u2019s something I enjoy, I like it. I don\u2019t like the backlash sometimes, because it\u2019s, it\u2019s hard trying to keep everything, we got 17 guys, then we got like 10-12 coaches. So obviously everybody has different opinions and stuff like that, but I embrace that, because it\u2019s just cool like seeing what everybody likes, what everybody doesn\u2019t like, and I\u2019ve also like learned stuff too, like I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B, but since I\u2019ve been here, I\u2019ve been learning about different like country songs, country artists. Like I learned who Morgan Wallen was this year. Luke, Blake and Sam, so we\u2019re listening to like a lot of that more of that than we were in the past. So that\u2019s just an area for me to grow and be able to learn and expand my horizons with their music. So that\u2019s been cool even like some rock like, Bon Jovi and Journey and just different bands and stuff like that. I\u2019ve been able to learn, because that\u2019s what some of these guys like. So I always want to appeal to them and like I said, put them, put them in position to feel good going into a practice or a game.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Isaiah Covington and Jayson Tatum bonded over their love of Jay Z after the performance coach joined the team in 2021. Since, he\u2019s grown into their unofficial DJ at practices, shootarounds and workouts. 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