Boston looked more like themselves in Game 3, and so did their star forward, Jayson Tatum. Tatum delivered a strong performance, and in doing so, he moved past Hall of Famer and NBA icon Kobe Bryant ...

Jayson Tatum and the defending champion Boston Celtics got back on track Saturday ... Tatum scored 22 points and surpassed his idol, the late Kobe Bryant, for the second-most playoff points ...

"I would take that team and challenge anyone" - Larry Bird on whether his Boston teams would beat Paul Pierce's 2008 Celtics ...

The Boston Celtics came away with a blowout victory ... but he has also surpassed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. The late NBA legend scored 2,889 points by the time he was at Tatum's ...

The Boston Celtics have a rough road ahead without ... they should look at what Kobe Bryant did when he suffered the same injury at the end of the 2013 season. Bryant tore his Achilles late ...

Jayson Tatum has been open for his entire basketball career about the way he idolizes the late, great Kobe ... for Bryant, he surely recognizes the overlap. And now it's up to the Celtics star ...