Over the course of his still relatively young NBA career, we have seen a strong trend throughout almost every season superstar forward Jayson Tatum has played for the Boston Celtics: he starts off slow, and elevates his game to ever-higher levels by the end of the campaign.
And so far, at the start of his 2022-23 campaign with Boston, the St. Louis native is already white-hot out of the gate; is this the season that trend ends, or will he be an absolute behemoth of a player by season’s end? If you believe the proposition put forward by Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley that Tatum winning not just the 2023 Kia Most Valuable Player award, but that the Duke alum will also win the scoring title, you clearly are buying the latter.
But is this notion a hot take? Let’s look at the B/R analyst’s argument.
Could the former Sixers center be a potential option for Boston if their current depth bigs don’t work out? https://t.co/ObOEeLOW2c
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) October 31, 2022