Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics will take on the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco for Game 1 of the NBA Finals Thursday night at the Chase Center.
Before the game, Tatum was seen walking into the arena wearing a unique outfit that went viral on Twitter.
Tatum has reached the Western Conference finals three times in his young career, but this is the first time he has reached the finals.
He’s already starting to get the label of being one of the few true superstars in the NBA.
On Sunday night, the Celtics won the Eastern Conference championship in Florida with a Game 7 road win over the Miami Heat.
As for the Warriors, they’re back in the Finals for the sixth time in the past eight seasons (they also won three titles in that span).
They reached five straight Finals before missing the playoffs for two straight years.
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