The Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets met in the playoffs Saturday night in what could have been a shootout between stars. Boston’s Jayson Tatum had 39 points but Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving managed just 16 each.
So it wasn’t quite a shootout, certainly not like what the NBA saw in 1988 between Boston’s Larry Bird and Dominique Wilkins.
Wilkins, who grew up in Washington, NC, is one of the more underrated stars in NBA history. He was brilliant. His problem was he played in the shadows of Bird, Magic Johnson and, most critically, Michael Jordan.