Jayson Tatum scored 40 points, and the Celtics snapped the Lakers’ eight-game winning streak with a 111-101 victory at TD Garden on Saturday in one of the biggest (at least narratively) games of the season.
Here are the takeaways.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were brilliant.
Separating Tatum and Brown in the takeaways would necessitate placing one above the other, which doesn’t seem particularly appropriate.
Tatum was phenomenal – masterful on the offensive end with 40 points on 12-for-28 shooting, including several huge 3-pointers and 12 trips to the free-throw line. His numbers this season haven’t been career-highs, but the level to which he manipulates and dominates offensively is unlike anything he’s achieved so far in his already decorated career.