On Sunday, the top-seeded Boston Celtics took the lead in their second-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, with arguably the best team in the Eastern Conference playing up to it’s potential.
Outside of veteran center Al Horford, who scored only two points against the Cavaliers on Saturday, the Celtics’ starters came to play in Game 3, with four players scoring in double figures, led by the dynamic duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
As usual, Tatum and Brown put on a show for Boston, with the duo combining for 61 points in order to eventually get the best of the Cavaliers, 106-93.
According to StatMuse, Tatum made team history on Saturday as he became only the third player in franchise history with 25 or more playoff games with 30 points, joining Celtics legends Larry Bird and John Havlicek.
Celtics with 25+ 30-point playoff games:
Larry Bird
John Havlicek
Jayson TatumThat's it. pic.twitter.com/CEpoKdVQqN
— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 12, 2024
Obviously, Tatum has joined some select company in the franchise’s history, but whether he can lead this franchise to an NBA title like Bird and Havlicek did multiple times remains to be seen.
The Celtics will play Game 4 at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland before the series shifts back to Game 5 in Boston at TD Garden, which could potentially be an elimination game if Tatum and company can come out on top on Monday.
The Cavaliers have proven to be more resilient than expected against the dominant Celtics, but Boston is clearly the better all-around team, which makes this series feel like it will inevitably come to an end sooner rather than later with the top-seeded squad advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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