With a 44-point game against a solid Charlotte Hornets squad on the road just 48 hours removed from handing the mighty Brooklyn Nets a 126 – 120 loss via a 54-point outing for All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, people are asking if the St. Louis native has finally crossed the threshold into the elite of the elite in the NBA: players in the running to win league Most Valuable Player (MVP).
While the conversation at present is in truth a two-man race between the Denver Nuggets Nikola Jokic and Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid, it’s getting harder to ignore that Tatum has quietly helped transform his team into a defensive juggernaut at the same time expanding his game on the other end of the court has given the Celtics a top-10 offense as well.
Is Tatum knocking on the door of winning league MVP so soon in his career? Or does he need to put up numbers like he has been of late throughout the course of a season to be a serious candidate?
The hosts of the CLNS Media podcast “The Garden Report” recently got into exactly this topic on the show; check out the clip embedded above to hear their points of view on whether Taco Jay is making a run to the border of MVP contention.
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