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Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown look to become better playmakers next season

It’s a superstar league. Maybe more than any other sport, basketball — and specifically NBA basketball — that maxim is true. Having a top-10 player is practically a prerequisite to make a deep playoff run these days. But if there’s a second half to that saying, it’s that superstars also need great role players around them.

For the Celtics, the heavy lifting is already done. In Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, Boston has two young All-Stars signed to long-term extensions. Brad Stevens has reconfigured the roster and the salary cap to build around them for the foreseeable future and now it’ll be new head coach Ime Udoka’s job to maximize his dynamic duo’s talents with their teammates.