As has almost been customary for his entire seven-year NBA career, Jayson Tatum is once again playing his best basketball as the season progresses.
The Celtics’ star forward has been on a tear since the calendar flipped to 2024. He’s scoring 29.5 points per game on 51.4 percent shooting from the field and 55.6 percent shooting from distance in January, adding eight rebounds and 4.8 assists per game.
While Tatum has upped his play in January after a relatively quiet December for his standards, his hot stretch actually dates back to the end of the Celtics’ West Coast trip just prior to Christmas.