Callahan: Celtics send message overcoming Jayson Tatum Game 1 clunker to crush Cavaliers

Jaylen Brown flipped a long pass from the right block out to Jayson Tatum early in Tuesday’s third quarter. It was the kind of pass, high-arching and hopeful, that finds a home on a Tuesday night in the regular season, but rarely, if ever, in the second round of the playoffs. Sure enough, there was Isaac Okoro, Cleveland’s sharpest defender, swatting Brown’s pass out of the air and into the backcourt. Okoro’s deflection triggered a two-man race, him and Tatum sprinting away from the action. Tatum won, tracking the ball...