We were waiting for Nico Batum, it was finally Brandon Boston Jr. who showed up with an XXL performance. This rude little teenager took off the Celtics by mixing all the ingredients necessary for success: electricity, unconsciousness and a good big dose of talent. We sit down, and we take a closer look.
The pretty homemade boxscore, it’s HERE!
And to think that it will make some laugh, that a boy named Brandon Boston Jr. beats Boston. It doesn’t take much, and if you take performance into account, so much at the same time. On a personal note, Brandon Boston Jr. was discovered in the documentary Top Class : The Life & Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers. He was then teammate of Bronny James and Zaire Wade in a superteam of college students, and promised a golden future among the older ones. We talked about him as a potential Top 10 of his Draft, and not really flush with the daisies. But his 2020-21 NCAA season under the Kentucky Wildcats jersey tarnished his reputation as a star. highschool now categorized as an eternal schoolboy, too soft for the games of the Great League. His team had one of the worst records in Wildcats history with just 9 wins for 16 losses, which hasn’t happened since… the 1988-89 season. A much more tragic – and sadly unforgettable – hazard this time, Brandon Boston Jr. lost a friend on his way home from training. He was in the same car as his teammate Terrence Clarke and the two young men had an accident, the latter died instantly. To recover from a collectively disastrous season as well as an event as unexpected as it is terrifying, that is the mark of the greatest.
The Celtics saw nothing but fire in highlights of a new twenty-something who until now hid his game excruciatingly well. Only a few double-digit performances here and there, but absolutely nothing as concrete as on Wednesday, December 8. In only one half, BJ Boston had 18 points at 7/8 shooting including 4/5 at 3 points, and stole two balloons from the little guys in Massachusetts. He also concluded this first stanza beautifully with a very spectacular buzzer, a sort of 3-point fadeaway in imbalance from the eight, nine meters. What unconsciousness. What recklessness. This type of action echoes what the 51st choice of the 2021 Draft has already shown in the G-League, with – over 6 games – averages of 21 points, 5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.7 interceptions to 48% shooting, including… 50% from a distance. Statistics far from being anecdotal at the professional level, especially when you have barely 20 brooms and the main qualifiers that stick to the skin of the guy are irregularity and mental fragility. Tonight, BJ Boston delivered his most elegant answer, ball in hand.
“I heard he scored 46 points in a G-League game. We have to respect everyone. In the end, he came and broke our ass. He made them win the game. “- Dennis Schroder, in post-match conference
BRANDON BOSTON JR BEATS THE BUZZER pic.twitter.com/O280Q85fgu
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) December 9, 2021
Hop, we open wide the books of records and we look at page 373… Brandon Boston Jr. joins Eric Gordon and Lamar Odom by becoming one of the three players of the Clippers to have scored a minima 27 points when he is only 20 years old. There are a lot of conditions you will say, and it is quite true. The idea is to showcase a performance that is extremely rare for a young person of his age group, and if it is from the more closed and less specific circle that you want, then you are served: BJ Boston becomes second youngest player in NBA history to score 25 points, 5 3-pointers taken and 4 steals in same game, just after LeBron James. It’s better, even if the details are still well drawn to highlight the darling of the Clippers Nation. One thing is for sure, you won’t see a better picture today than this little thought of Brandon Boston Jr. for Terrence Clarke, who according to his buddy, was a fan of the Celtics. This one is for him.
Brandon Boston Jr. tells @swishcultures_ that he dedicated this game against Boston to his friend Terrence Clarke, who was a Celtics fan. pic.twitter.com/nGeWUbAAQ0
— Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) December 9, 2021
Hell of a performance here, but BJ Boston must now look straight ahead and try to scratch a safe spot within Tyronn Lue’s rotation. It’s largely doable given the potential, but be careful not to show too much irregularity, symbolic of his game since the NCAA.
