With 2:31 to go in overtime, the Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown took the ball from the top of the key and knifed through the open lane.
This was routine for Brown, a former top-three draft choice in his seventh season in the NBA and making over $60 million a year. It’s an easy left-hand jam without a rim protector in the paint. But not on former Indiana All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis’ watch. The rookie dashed from the right corner, made his way to the opposite side of the rim, and stuffed Brown.
On the previous possession, Jackson-Davis sat in the dunker’s spot and waited for a cutting Klay Thompson to dish him the ball for a jam.