The Boston Celtics will win the 2025 NBA title if star forward Jayson Tatum keeps playing the way he has been heading into the stretch run of the 2024-25 regular season. Or at least that is the position being taken by former Boston big man and current Celtics broadcaster Brian Scalabrine.

As the reigning champs with the second-best record in the league's Eastern Conference, it is safe to say the Celtics are comfortably in this mix.

It's a compelling thought experiment that would flatter Tatum's body of work, which already gives him a 62% shot at the Hall of Fame by Basketball Reference's metrics (a larger number than, for instance, Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic).