It wasn’t so long ago that the Celtics were struggling to consistently win games with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown as their two top players.
The Celtics went 36-36 in the 2020-21 season, a year after advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals, despite Tatum and Brown being named All-Stars that season. In the following season, they began 25-25 through the first 50 games of the year.
Of course, the Celtics turned it around last season after the .500 start through 50 games, breaking through to reach the NBA Finals where they lost to the Warriors. But as the Celtics failed to string it together in the 2020-21 season and into the following year, questions grew louder and louder as to whether or not Tatum and Brown were a suitable duo.