If the Denver Nuggets needed any motivation to be at their best this season, they got all the fuel they would need from Kendrick Perkins. Perkins appeared
Boston takes on the Denver Nuggets after Jayson Tatum scored 46 points in the Boston Celtics' 123-116 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The two most recent NBA champions are playing well enough to reach the finals, and as we saw Sunday, it would be a compelling matchup.
One game after blowing a 22-point lead and losing to the NBA-best Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics coughed up most of a 20-point lead against Denver, the No. 2 team in the West. The Nuggets, who trailed 59-39 in the final minutes of the first half, scored 10 straight points near the end of the third to cut a 15-point lead to five.
Putting a graphic on the broadcast, ESPN announced that Tatum is one of just three players in NBA history with at least 13,000 points and 4,000 rebounds before age 27. The other two players are Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James.