BOSTON - A whole bunch of 19-year-olds spent Christmas Day stuck at the kids' table at their holiday gatherings, unable to muscle their way into a spot at the big table. All Boston Celtics teenage rookie Jayson Tatum did on the holiday was make a cameo in Kyrie Irving's new Nike commercial and fuel a fourth-quarter surge in front of a national TV audience.
Tatum scored a team-high 20 points - matching the output of Irving - but despite a dazzling fourth quarter sequence that helped Boston briefly surge ahead, the Celtics fell to the visiting Washington Wizards 111-103 in Boston's first-ever Christmas Day home game at TD Garden.