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Jaylen Brown defends pairing with Tatum, “I think we can play together”

Jaylen Brown defends pairing with Tatum, “I think we can play together”

The pairing has worked well before — Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have led two teams to the Eastern Conference Finals. This looked like a team on the cusp of serious title contention.

However, the last couple of years have been disappointments, including this season where the team is below .500 and would get the last play-in spot right now. Barely. Something is wrong with these Celtics, and it has led to calls to break up the Brown and Tatum pairing (which would almost certainly mean trading Brown).

After recording the first triple-double of his career, Brown defended his pairing with Tatum.

“I think we can play together. We have played together well for the majority of our career and things like that. The last year or so hasn’t gone as expected, but I think a lot of the adversity that we’re kind of going through now is going to help us grow and get better in the future. If we get over this slump and continue to learn, I think there’s a lot of good basketball on the other…

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