BOSTON — Celtics rookie forward Jayson Tatum doesn’t look nervous to begin the second Game 7 of his young career.
He scored nine points in the first quarter of Boston’s Game 7 matchup of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night at TD Garden.
Tatum’s fifth point moved him another place up on the NBA’s all-time rookie playoff scoring list.
Jayson Tatum’s fifth point tonight was his 332nd of the playoffs, moving him ahead of Elgin Baylor (331 pts, 1959) for the third most by a rookie in a single postseason in NBA history
— Celtics Stats (@celtics_stats) May 28, 2018
Alvan Adams (341 points) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (352) are second and first, respectively, on this list.
Tatum also is the first rookie in 40 years to score 300 or more points in a single postseason. He accomplished that feat in Game 5 of the conference finals.
