Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the young Celtics look all grown up, and now they'll play for the NBA title.
Tatum and Brown were born in the 1990s, and maybe they have an affinity for that era of basketball. By throwing their bodies around, they mucked up the game to the point that not even the defensive-minded Miami Heat could survive. And completing their 100-96 win Sunday, the Celtics spilled onto Miami’s home floor and celebrated their trip to theIt wasn’t pretty, with Tatum needing 21 shots to score a team-best 26 points and Brown adding 24 but also four turnovers.
“Fourteen years, that’s probably the worst [reaction] I’ve gotten,” he said that night, according to ESPN. Then, the summer after the Brown pick, then-Celtics president Danny Ainge made the mercurial move to trade the No. 1 choice to Philadelphia. That pick would become Markelle Fultz, while the Celtics once again selected third and found their man in Tatum. And, once again, the move in hindsight makes Ainge look like a savant.
After Game 6, when these players walked off their home court, defeated by one Jimmy Butler but doomed by their many mistakes, there was a palatable sense of the night being a wasted opportunity. It was heard through the exiting fans, who vocalized their displeasure in the most Boston ways imaginable. A local television personality yelled an expletive while leaving the media section.
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