Jayson Tatum and the Celtics were short-handed, but they had more than enough blow out the even more short-handed Sixers on Thursday, claiming a 123-105 victory.
Here are the takeaways.
Jayson Tatum has never scored an easier 35 points
It takes a special player to score 35 points in the NBA as regularly as Tatum, so we would never want to disparage one of his big scoring outbursts, but we would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge that Tatum’s 35 points had to have come more easily than just about any other game in his career.