While Boston Celtics teammates Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were the first such Celtics teammates to participate in the NBA All-Star 3-Point Contest in a decade — the last being Ray Allen and Paul Pierce in 2011 — neither Brown nor Tatum would come away with the title for 2021.
That honor would fall to Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Stephen Curry, who won the event with a 28-point performance that beat the Utah Jazz’ Mike Conley by a single point. Brown would be eliminated in the first round, with Tatum advancing to the second round, but falling with a score of just 17.
Brown had an unintentional moment of levity after being “fouled,” colliding in a shooting motion with the ball rack, but the ice-cold shooting of one of the greatest to ever heave the rock ultimately won out in the end.
Jaylen Brown trying for the And-1 in the #MtnDew3PT contest 🤣 pic.twitter.com/XfbcOZIRXt
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 8, 2021
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