But one way or another, the Celtics need Tatum to be great. In a conversation at the Celtics’ practice facility about his future and the atypical stakes, Tatum had talking points at the ready, ones that he had delivered multiple times before. But that is Tatum’s personality, Brad Stevens, the Celtics’ head coach, said. “First game of the season, he’s unaffected by the jitters that everybody has. Unaffected.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2019 18:59 UTC