On Wednesday night, the Celtics were rewarded in a big way for sticking with their core of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum through mid-season trade rumblings
The season was only a dozen games old when Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens swatted away rumors that the team was looking to trade its forward, Jaylen Brown. Those rumors persisted into January, as the team entered the new year with an under .500 record, and concerns mounted over whether Brown and his fellow all-star, Jayson Tatum, could co-exist.
On Wednesday night, as the Celtics bested the Golden State Warriors 116-100 to take a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals, those trade rumors felt prehistoric – or at least as dated as the original Jurassic Park.