WITH ALL DUE respect to Disneyland, "the happiest place on Earth" for any player or team after an NBA championship win is the hallway inside the arena that leads to the photo room.
Time loses all meaning. Family and friends walk gleefully through the corridors to take their turn posing with the gleaming Larry O'Brien Trophy.
It was well past midnight on June 18 when Jayson Tatum and his family made their way in. He'd just put up 31 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists to lead the Boston Celtics in their series-clinching 106-88 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.