Jayson Tatum scored 28 points, including a go-ahead baseline jumper late in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics prevailed for the sixth time in eight games Thursday night with a 110-107 road victory over the Memphis Grizzles in a satisfying bit of suspended disbelief.
Ja Morant led the Grizzlies with 21 points.
All right, so this isn’t actually an NBA game story. And Tatum’s late heroics and Morant’s quest to hold off the Pelicans’ Zion Williamson for NBA Rookie of the Year honors weren’t what one would call real.
But you probably knew that. The real NBA, like just about everything else non-essential in our daily lives, is on hold indefinitely while the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps frighteningly through our country.