Jayson Tatum said he had a feeling that the Celtics and Heat would meet again even before the Play-In Tournament was settled.
It would only be right for the Celtics and Heat to play a fourth playoff series in five years, Tatum said.
He was right. The Celtics and Heat did meet, and Boston closed out Miami in five games.
“I wanted to play Miami in a sense that, last year playing against Atlanta we might’ve relaxed a little bit,” Tatum said.
“But knowing the history with Miami, and how hard they play and how well-coached they are that, for a first-round matchup, regardless of the seed, that we were gonna have to be ready to play and be ready to fight.