What looked like a true NBA Finals threat is headed home after the first round.
It was a wild year for the Celtics in what was initially expected to be somewhat of down season as Jayson Tatum recovered from a torn Achilles suffered last May. Nobody told Joe Mazzulla and Jaylen Brown that, though, as Brown had a career season where he averaged 28.7 points per game and the Celtics wound up a contender in the Eastern Conference even without Tatum.
