Jayson Tatum sat at the dais wearing a pink collared shirt, looking relaxed and relieved and rejuvenated, and he could freely admit the truth. “They had us on the ropes in Game 6,” he said ...

Walking down a TD Garden hallway two Mondays ago, deep into a shirt-drenching NBA championship celebration, Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum looked into the camera and delivered a challenge to one ...