Tatum thought the Celtics would be matched up with a different Western Conference
"People always ask me, 'When did you guys know you were going to win a championship?'" Tatum said at the Maynard Fine Arts Theatre last Thursday, per. "When Minnesota beat Denver , I felt like Denver was the only team that they matched up best with us. I thought that we were going to play Denver in the Finals and it was going to be a good one.
No one knows how the Nuggets would've matched up in the WCF against the Mavericks, but Doncic playing againstwould've been must-see TV. They are arguably the two greatest players in the NBA today and have a unique friendship that always bleeds over onto the court. Tatum went into further detail about when exactly in the final series he knew they were going to win. "But when we were in Dallas and we went up, 3-0, oh my God. Nobody has ever come back from 0-3, so I remember getting back to the locker room and I remember saying, I don’t know what game it’s going to be, but we’re going to win the championship. That was a weird feeling.
Tatum was correct to be confident against Dallas, as the Mavs just didn't have the offensive firepower to keep up with the star-studded Celtics.was contained in all three games in Boston and Dallas couldn't get outside shots to fall, which led them to signAustin Veazey joined NoleGameday as the Lead Basketball Writer in 2019, while contributing as a football writer, and started as editor for MavericksGameday in 2024. Veazey was a Florida State Men’s Basketball Manager from 2016-2019.
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