JAYSON TATUM IN THE CLUTCH



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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The Celtics, the leader of the Eastern Conference, headed to Los Angeles today to face the Lakers of the purple and gold army. Although they were once reversed by their opponents with an astonishing 41:9 offensive in the latter part of the game, Jayson Tatum still used the key A tie-back jumper forced the game into an overtime. In the end, the Celtics beat the Lakers 122:118 in the overtime.

The Celtics played smoothly in the first two quarters. They took the lead 37:24 in the first quarter, and expanded the score to 65:50 after halftime. The Celtics even led by 20 points in the third quarter. In the second half of the third quarter, a wave of 8:0 offensive was played, and the score was close to 82:88, only 6 points behind Celtic.

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Tatum (right) scored 44 points.

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In the fourth quarter, the Lakers continued to attack. At the beginning of the quarter, they used a wave of 10:0 offensive to overtake the score to 92:88. At one time, with 4 minutes and 25 seconds left in the game, they opened up to a 13-point lead. Only then did he wake up, relying on the joint efforts of many people to open fire to catch up with the score, and finally Tatum's fallback jumper with 17.1 seconds left tied the score. James (Lebron James) missed the last three-point jumper and the two teams entered playoff.

Russell Westbrook scored 4 points in a row at the beginning of the playoff, but then they beat the Lakers with a wave of 12:0 offensive. In the end, the Lakers were defeated after Westbrook's dunk. Failed to continue scoring, the Lakers lost 118:122 to the Celtics in the end, and only won 1 of the last 5 games.

Tatum scored a game-high 44 points.

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The Celtics' winning hero in this game is none other than Tatum. Including the jump shot that tied the score in the fourth quarter, he scored a game-high 44 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. J. Brown (Jaylen Brown) also had 25 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals.

For the Lakers, Anthony Davis scored a team-high 37 points and 12 rebounds, James had 33 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, and Westbrook scored 20 points and 14 rebounds from the bench.

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