It was a horrible sight. A sickening sight, really. One minute Jayson Tatum was doing everything humanly possible to keep the Celtics from falling behind three games to one in the Eastern Conference semifinals. In a career already flush with big games at big times, this might have been his finest hour: 42 points, eight rebounds, four assists, four blocks, four steals.<\/p>\n
Every time he touched the ball that Monday night, May 12, 2025, the crowd at Madison Square Garden gasped a gasp reserved only for a select few \u2014 for Michael Jordan, for Reggie Miller, for the regular springtime assassins who ruined so many playoff runs through the years. Tatum had been that good all night.<\/p>\n
The Knicks led by seven, 111-104, but there were still more than three minutes left. Tatum had the ball in his hands. He passed off to Jaylen Brown, but it wasn\u2019t a great pass. It led too much toward Mikal Bridges, and Bridges poked it away. OG Anunoby plucked the ball out of the air, sped in for a dunk, a nine-point lead, and sheer deafening bedlam at MSG.<\/p>\n
But in an instant, the din dissolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a horrible sight. A sickening sight, really. One minute Jayson Tatum was doing everything humanly possible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,75,77,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-642127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-jayson-tatum","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116179646889463391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}