Jayson Tatum delivered … yet again.
On perhaps the biggest stage the NBA has had to offer thus far – a game with Emirates NBA Cup implications between the defending champions and a Cavaliers team off to a 15-0 start to the year – Tatum once again delivered a huge performance. The Celtics superstar posted 33 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists, two steals and – during a first-half onslaught of 3-pointers by Tatum and the rest of the Celtics – at least three kisses-of-death.
Tatum delivered so many kisses of death, in fact, that Cavaliers guard Craig Porter Jr.