INDIANAPOLIS — Jayson Tatum has played in 107 playoff games in his seven-year NBA career. It is not a challenge to identify his best performance.
It has to be his 46-point effort in Game 6 of the 2022 Eastern Conference semifinals against the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks. The Celtics trailed, 3-2, in the series. They were on the road. It looked bleak.
The Bucks were coming off a Game 5 win in which this one-man defensive scheme named Jrue Holiday — perhaps you have heard of him? — made two sensational late plays, including a midcourt steal against Marcus Smart that suddenly looks awfully familiar.