The Boston Celtics got humbled on Friday night. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were talking smack to the team after one quarter. Then, the Cleveland Cavaliers stormed right back from a 22-point deficit to get perhaps their biggest win of the season.

Payton Pritchard and Derrick White combined for 19 3-pointers and etched their name into Celtics history as a duo.

After back-to-back losses to the Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics picked up a key seven-point win over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday. Now, the Celtics will face a scrappy and surging Portland Trail Blazers team on Wednesday.

Both Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown played a high number of minutes in Saturday night's 111-101 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Tatum played a season-high 45 minutes and Brown played 42 minutes, helping the Celtics defeat their longstanding Western Conference rivals.

The Boston Celtics are the defending NBA champions. As such, they’re the team to beat until proven otherwise. They have the same core from their championship run last season, and while they haven’t been the best team in the league in the regular season,

Tatum and Brown aren’t just the best duo in the league—they’re the most complete. And in a game with playoff-level intensity, they reaffirmed there’s no duo you’d rather have leading your team.

The Celtics snapped the Lakers’ eight-game winning streak with a 111-101 victory on Saturday in one of the biggest games of the season.

The Celtics successfully fended off the Lakers, avenging their worst loss of the season as Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown starred in the victory.