The NBA dug into its records and for the first time since 1984, three teammates finished a Finals game with at least 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. At the time, it was Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Cooper, and their successors are named Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum.
In this Game 3, the “Big Three” of the Celtics finished respectively with 27 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists for Jaylen Brown, 26 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists for Jayson Tatum, and finally 24 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists for Marcus Smart.
In history, only four trios have achieved this performance, and before 1984 there had been Bill Russell, Sam Jones and John Havlicek in 1966 and John Havlicek, Bill Russell and Larry Siegfried in 1968.
“I was born in 1998, and that was way before my time” reacted Jayson Tatum when asked about this stat. “We find ourselves in very good company, but we are not going to get too excited. We’ll watch the video and make sure we’re ready for the next game, because we know they’re going to react. »
Note that the 77 points of the Brown-Smart-Tatum trio is the best total for the Celtics in an NBA Finals since 1987! Even the Garnett-Allen-Pierce trio hadn’t reached that mark in 2008 and 2010.
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