{"id":771107,"date":"2023-01-17T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=771107"},"modified":"2023-01-18T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:59:49","slug":"jayson-tatum-breaks-boston-record-for-most-50-point-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/jayson-tatum-breaks-boston-record-for-most-50-point-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum Breaks Boston Record For Most 50-Point Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jayson+Tatum\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jayson+Tatum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> is only 24-years-old, and he&#8217;s already taken over Hall-of-Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Larry+Bird\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Larry+Bird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Bird&#8217;s<\/a> place in the record books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/the-magazine\/jayson-tatum-241\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/the-magazine\/jayson-tatum-241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially passed the three-time MVP<\/a> for most 50-point games in Boston Celtics history after he scored a season-high 51 points on 15-23 shooting from the field, 7-12 from beyond the arc, and a perfect 14-14 from the charity stripe to lead Boston to a 130-118 win over Charlotte. Tatum has posted more 50-point games than Bird and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Paul+Pierce\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Paul+Pierce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Pierce<\/a> COMBINED. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He makes me look like a better coach,&#8221; Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35461898\/amid-mvp-chants-charlotte-celtics-tatum-nets-51-points\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35461898\/amid-mvp-chants-charlotte-celtics-tatum-nets-51-points\" target=\"_blank\">per ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t settle for shots; he got catch-and-shoots, he got off the dribbles, he got layups. The other piece of that is the humility of our team to really work with him to get those 51 points.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JAYSON TATUM 51 PIECE \u203c\ufe0f<br><br>HE DROPPED 18 PTS IN Q4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dinmve9N8T\">pic.twitter.com\/dinmve9N8T<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1615080778815209484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum&#8217;s 51-point effort was his first 50-point outing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/jayson-tatum-ties-larry-bird-for-most-50-point-games-in-celtics-history\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/jayson-tatum-ties-larry-bird-for-most-50-point-games-in-celtics-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since he scored 54<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/jayson-tatum-pours-in-51-points-as-celtics-earn-much-needed-win\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/jayson-tatum-pours-in-51-points-as-celtics-earn-much-needed-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">51 last season<\/a> and notched a career-high 60 points during the 2020-21 campaign. Tatum has tied Gilbert Arenas for the third-best scoring performance on MLK Day after Agent Zero dropped 51 points in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a while since I scored 50,&#8221; Tatum said <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jayson-tatum-passes-larry-bird-for-most-50-point-games-in-celtics-history-212035718.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jayson-tatum-passes-larry-bird-for-most-50-point-games-in-celtics-history-212035718.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per Yahoo Sports<\/a>. &#8220;So I needed that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum scored his 51st point with 38 seconds left after knocking down his seventh triple of the evening, which drew <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticsCLNS\/status\/1615080912785473564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1615080912785473564%7Ctwgr%5E68e4c40fed8b9cd362cd6c336769737f413f4625%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcelticswire.usatoday.com%2Flists%2Fnba-twitter-reacts-to-jayson-tatums-season-high-51-in-win-over-hornets%2F\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticsCLNS\/status\/1615080912785473564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1615080912785473564%7Ctwgr%5E68e4c40fed8b9cd362cd6c336769737f413f4625%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcelticswire.usatoday.com%2Flists%2Fnba-twitter-reacts-to-jayson-tatums-season-high-51-in-win-over-hornets%2F\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;MVP &#8221; chants from the Charlotte crowd<\/a>. After Charlotte cut Boston&#8217;s lead to 98-95 following a pair of free throws from Jaden McDaniels, Tatum came in and responded with 18 fourth-quarter points to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boston (33-12) holds the top spot in the League after Tuesday and is 4.5 games ahead of Brooklyn (27-15) for the top spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayson Tatum is only 24-years-old, and he&#8217;s already taken over Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird&#8217;s place in the record books. The three-time All-Star officially passed the three-time MVP for most 50-point games in Boston Celtics history after he scored a season-high 51 points on 15-23 shooting from the field, 7-12 from beyond the arc, and a perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":771118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63826,62493],"tags":[91,9931,941,64891,427],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-771107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-larry-bird","tag-most-50-point-games-in-boston-history","tag-paul-pierce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771243,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771107\/revisions\/771243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771107"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=771107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}