BOSTON — A decade later, Jalen Brunson is trying to beat Jayson Tatum.
The stage could be very completely different — the Japanese Convention semifinals as an alternative of a nonconference highschool showdown — however not all that a lot has modified between the 2.
Ten years in the past, they have been elite gamers, and that’s nonetheless the case, the celebs for his or her respective groups on this Knicks-Celtics playoff sequence.
It was January 2015, when Tatum and Brunson placed on a present within the Most cancers Analysis Traditional in Wheeling, West Va., the 2 combining for 87 factors in a memorable contest that noticed Tatum’s Chaminade Excessive Faculty (Mo.) knock off Brunson’s Stevenson (Ailing.) 88-81.
