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Despite Tatum suffering the worst injury of his career, Jaylen Brown’s Game 5 heroics had NBA fans leaning into recency bias, claiming the former California star is being held back by Tatum. They took to social media to share their thoughts. "Brown > Tatum Batman vs Robin," one fan claimed.
In the team's first game since losing star forward Jayson Tatum, big nights from Jaylen Brown and Derrick White helped steer the team to a 127-102 victory over the New York Knicks and cut the series deficit to 3-2.
The future of the Boston Celtics may be looking bleak. After posting 42 points in Game 4 of the second round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs ag
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Celtics Wire on MSNThe Superb, Dreadful, and TBD of the Boston Celtics Game 5 win vs. the New York KnicksThe Boston Celtics should have folded like a wet cardboard box. But they did not, and instead put together one of their best games in recent memory.
NBA on TNT provided the broadcast for Wednesday's Game 5 showdown, and Reggie Miller revealed during the contest that he received a text message directly from Tatum.
The star forward recently completed surgery on his right Achilles tendon that was ruptured in the Celtics' Eastern Conference semifinals Game 4.
How does this impact Boston's postseason hopes? More importantly, what does it do to the team's contention window in the short and medium term?
A six-time All-Star, Tatum had an emotional conversation with his father after tearing his Achilles tendon. Spears revealed the details of the talk on NBA Today with Malika Andrews of ESPN.