CHARLOTTE.- Jayson Tatum did what he wanted with them Hornets de Charlotte scoring 51 points in a 130-118 win over the Celtics de Bostonin the special match program of the NBA for him Martin Luther King’s day.
Tatum equalized Gilbert Arenas with the third best performance in the history of the NBA in it luther king day and stayed one point behind the second position of Kemba Walker (52 in 2016) and ten of the 61 scored by Damian Lillard in 2020.
The leader of the Celtics he broke the fifty-point barrier for the fifth time in his career and scored 18 in the fourth quarter, key to thwarting comeback attempts by some proud Hornets.
His game ended three consecutive triples for 51 points, with nine rebounds and five assists, on a day in which the Celtics they could not count on Jaylen Brownlow due to injury.
they supported him Derrick White with 19 points and Malcolm Brogdon with 16 coming off the bench to give the Celticsleaders of the Eastern Conference (33-12) from NBAthe sixth consecutive victory.
the dominican Al Horfordholder in the quintet of Joe Mazzullacontributed eight points, three rebounds and three assists.
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With great pride, the Hornets they had managed to cut a 17-point deficit to just two in the fourth quarter, before being crushed by three-pointers from Tatum.
It was the fifth straight loss for the Hornets and the eighth in the last nine games. The team trained by Steve Clifford occupies the last place in the East with a balance of 11-34.
