Pre-2021-22 Rank: #50, Pre-2022-23 Rank: #33, Pre-2023-24 Rank: #22.
*Positional Notes: Tatum also plays at Power Forward but has logged more minutes at SF.
*Peak Period: 2017-18 to 2023-24. Tatum has completed seven seasons, the maximum for our Peak Period metrics.
Last year, he did it.
Jayson Tatum, the newest megastar on the long list of Boston Celtics, was the best player on the NBA Championship team (although Jaylen Brown was the ECF and Finals MVP), and everyone who did that made the Hall of Fame.
Here is the scary part: Tatum enters this season with the same roster and a chip on his shoulder after feeling disrespected for his lack of playing time in the United States Gold Medal win at the Paris Olympics. The Celtics could do it again, and he is in line to earn his fourth straight First Team All-NBA and first MVP.
