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Jaylen Brown & Jayson Tatum Climbing This Unlucky NBA Listing

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The Boston Celtics have been top-of-the-line groups within the NBA during the last couple of a long time, qualifying for the postseason yearly apart from one since 2008. They’ve been particularly good in the newest years, and they’re going to make their second NBA Finals look previously three years after they tackle the Dallas Mavericks beginning later this week.

Brown, Tatum Climbing This Unlucky NBA Listing

 

However they’ve come up brief o

n their final objective yr after yr, dropping within the second spherical or later in 7 of the final 8 seasons. The star duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have been in Boston for many of that point, and are rapidly turning into synonymous with the good gamers who by no means received over the hump and win a championship.

Getting into the 2024 NBA Finals, the Tatum/Brown duo has performed in 102 playoff video games collectively because the 2017-18 season. That marks the fifth most playoff video games by any two gamers with out profitable a championship. They usually might climb all the best way as much as third if issues don’t go their means towards the Mavericks.

The duo of Reggie Miller & Dale Davis performed 105 playoff video games for the Indiana Pacers with out ever hoisting the trophy, and Patrick Ewing & Charles Oakley sit at 106 for the New York Knicks. If Dallas takes residence the {hardware} this yr, then Tatum/Brown could be someplace between 106 and 109.

Stockton/Malone Duo Nonetheless Eons Away From The Others

They’d nonetheless be a methods away from breaking the all-time NBA document, as unlucky as it’s. Jerry West & Elgin Baylor performed 110 video games collectively over 10 years earlier than lastly breaking by means of in 1972, however they’re second on the listing by a protracted shot. The primary spot belongs to Karl Malone & John Stockton of the Utah Jazz, who performed an unbelievable 172 video games collectively with out profitable a title, 62 greater than anybody else on the listing.

Malone & Stockton spent 18 years collectively in Utah, and certified for the playoffs each time. Their most well-known runs got here in 1997 and 1998, after they lastly made it to the NBA Finals, solely to fall to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls on each events.

Recreation 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals will happen on Thursday night time in Boston.



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