Payton Pritchard opens up on Celtics wanting to see Paul George ‘kill’

The main drama leading up to the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers’ contest on Tuesday night centered around the purportedly fractured relationship between Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Brown was out for revenge after the Celtics surprisingly traded him to the 76ers this offseason, but in the end, another man who was in for a revenge game, Paul George, had the final say.

George, the main piece the Celtics got from the 76ers in exchange for Brown, showed why Boston were justified in making that trade. He put up 36 points on 14-of-22 shooting from the field, and he caught fire in the fourth quarter — scoring 14 consecutive points to deliver one killing blow after another to his former…