When it mattered most, Jaylen Brown shined in the clutch

The final words surrounding Boston’s nail-biting overtime win over the Toronto Raptors will inevitably be saved for the game-winning shot that released off of Jayson Tatum’s hands as time expired. After all, it saved the Celtics from a home defeat to a lowly Raptors team still searching for their first road win of the season.

Those words may even feature the moments before that final shot, when Raptors guard Davion Mitchell did his best Matthew Knies impression by backchecking Jaylen Brown out of his action, an move that went uncalled and left Tatum to deliver the final blow all on his own.

Perhaps lost in the fray of that chaotic final sequence was Brown’s incredible clutch time performance,…