“You never want to have these moments, but somehow, someway, they tend to happen throughout the course of 82 games,” said Jayson Tatum via CLNS Media after the Boston Celtics got their posteriors handed to them by the Washington Wizards, a team in the running to land a top pick in the 2023 NBA draft that was without two of their best players.
“They count as one, whether it’s right now or whether it’s in December,” added the St. Louis native of the outcome created by the Celtics’ lack of urgency to put themselves in the best position possible to earn a title they supposedly care about winning.
