Jayson Tatum missed his first six shots, including an airball and a front-rimmed dunk. He didn\u2019t score until converting a putback dunk after a Payton Pritchard miss with one minute left in the second quarter. <\/p>\n
That bucket seemed to give Tatum back some level of comfort. On the next Celtics possession, he drained a stepback 3-pointer from the left corner. Despite the apparent rust, he entered halftime on pace for a triple-double with 5 points, five rebounds and five assists over 14 minutes. Tatum let out a smile before walking to the Celtics locker room.<\/p>\n
After missing his first six shots, Tatum drained his next five. He scored 5 points over the final 1:16 of the second quarter and 7 points over the first 3:29 of the second. During that stretch, he finished a strong drive at the rim, pulled up for a midrange jumper in the pick-and-roll and drained a 3-pointer over a nearby defender. His scoring outburst helped the Celtics take a double-digit lead during the third quarter. They continued pulling away during the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum missed his first six shots, including an airball and a front-rimmed dunk. He didn\u2019t score until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-519642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}