Celtics use balanced scoring to demolish flailing Heat: 10 takeaways

Jayson Tatum is heading back to the NBA All-Star Game.The Celtics jumped ahead quickly against the Heat on Thursday and never looked back, surging past their Eastern Conference rivals 143-110.

Here are the takeaways.

1. That was a beatdown.

The Heat were without standout rookie Jaime Jacquez Jr., as well as Kevin Love, but they were also without only-in-last-year’s-playoffs superstar Gabe Vincent (who now plays for the Lakers) as well as only-in-last-year’s-playoffs superstar Caleb Martin (who still plays for the Heat and got 21 minutes on Thursday but was 2-for-12 and has clearly regressed back to “not a superstar”).

Apart from that, the Heat were all present and accounted for, and the Celtics…