“I think you just realize at a certain point that you might be on a trajectory of whatever people want to call it — have a legendary career or an all-time great or whatever,” Tatum said. “And just, you see the impact that he had on the game of basketball and obviously with the Celtics, winning three championships, winning three MVPs in a row, which is incredible. You just suddenly start to see that, you know, you both scored 60 points in a game, and you start getting mentioned in (conversations about) the only other Celtics to do this. And then, obviously, once you win a championship, it’s like, all right, you can be in those rooms with the Celtics legends. But it doesn’t just stop at one. You’ve obviously gotta win multiple, and that’s what we’re trying to do. And I always wanted to be the best. He’s, in my opinion, the best Celtic ever. He did it the right way. And he’s a great guy to chase, in a sense.”