The 8-3 Boston Celtics hosted the 8-3 Denver Nuggets at TD Garden on Friday night as two likely title contenders and two Most Valuable Player candidates in Jayson Tatum and Nikola Jokic met for the first time of the 2022-23 NBA season.
The Celtics would improve to 9-3 and extend their winning streak to an NBA-best five-game winning streak in a contest they never trailed by more than 1 point, however, with the Celtics looking like the juggernaut they finished their 2021-22 campaign as. Big games from Jayson Tatum (34 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists), Jaylen Brown (25 points, 8 boards, 8 assists), and Al Horford (21 points, 7 rebounds) secured the victory for Boston.
Let’s take a look at some of the best plays captured in images from the Celtics’ 12th game of their 2022-23 campaign.
Tatum and his mother opened up about some of the more important formative moments of the Duke alum’s basketball career. https://t.co/SLtJplqKQF
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