NBA: Brown, Tatum answer critics while leading Celtics to title

BOSTON — In 2008, the Celtics ended a 22-year NBA championship drought led by a Big 3. Sixteen years later, they did it again following the play of a dynamic duo. When Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were drafted third overall in back-to-back years in 2016 and 2017, they were almost instantly branded with the