BOSTON — The duality of the moment Monday night couldn’t be lost on anyone, not a soul in the shaken and stirred TD Garden.
The warmth for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The heat for Kyrie Irving — just as hot and powerful, but it felt different.
One wouldn’t get in the way of the other, just as Tatum and Brown refused to be divided. And they refused to lose the stranglehold they had on this NBA Finals, clearly displaying they have the superior team and clearly graduating to the land of the elite.