If at this time last year, someone had approached you claiming they were from the future and said, word for word, that “Tatum is going to hold the Larry O’Brien trophy next season,” you might have been a bit taken aback, but people from the future have offered far more terrifying proclamations before. On the scale of Doctor Strange’s 14 million outcomes to the inevitable impact of climate change, this one would’ve fallen safely in the “Back to the Future predicts the Cubs will win the 2015 World Series” camp. The idea that Jayson Tatum would be crowned NBA champion one year after a forgettable disaster of a season would’ve seemed lofty, but not absurd.
Jayson Tatum’s failure to launch
