Jayson Tatum sets remarkable NBA record in Celtics-Hornets game initially appeared on NBC Sports Boston
LeBron James is not the one NBA participant making history this week.
Whereas Jayson Tatum has a methods to go to catch James within the scoring division, the Boston Celtics star reached a spectacular milestone in Friday’s recreation in opposition to the Charlotte Hornets at TD Backyard.
Tatum hit his 1,000th profession 3-pointer Friday evening, turning into the youngest participant in NBA historical past to achieve 1,000 threes at 24 years and 344 days previous.
Tatum fittingly broke the document of his childhood pal, Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal, who made his 1,000th 3-pointer at 25 years and 223 days previous.
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Tatum is not the Celtics’ greatest outdoors shooter percentage-wise, however he earned this document partly by means of sheer quantity: The sixth-year ahead has made at the least 170 3-pointers in three consecutive seasons and ranks sixth within the NBA this season in threes made (171) whereas capturing at a 35.3 % clip getting into Friday evening.
All of these 3-pointers have led to a number of factors: By scoring 12 factors Wednesday evening in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers, Tatum additionally broke Isaiah Thomas’ Celtics franchise document set in 2016-17 for many factors scored earlier than the All-Star break (1,583).
Thomas went on to common 28.9 factors per recreation that season, the second-highest scoring common in Celtics historical past behind solely Larry Bird (29.9 factors per recreation in 1987-88). Tatum is on tempo to surpass each gamers, nevertheless, placing up 30.6 factors per recreation by means of 55 contests.
Tatum has put spectacular numbers from Day 1 since getting into the league at age 19, and he is solely gotten higher, rising as a authentic MVP candidate in Yr 6. If he continues on this trajectory, he might do critical injury to each the Celtics’ and the NBA’s document books earlier than all is alleged and carried out.
