Tatum's return + Wemby's ascension
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for March 9th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore. Here with Zena Keda and Espera Henney. Coming up, Jason Tatum is back. We're going to talk about his return. Victor Wiminyama is morphing in front of our eyes. And we're going to hit some of the big games from the weekend. Good morning, everybody. What's up, Zena? What's up, S? How are you guys doing? First of all...
Happy International Women's Day. You stole my joke. Stepped right on it.
Good job, S. For those of you listening, I am putting my hands in a prayer formation to say thank you. You know what's funny?
I purposely didn't put it in the notes so that you didn't know it was coming. Well done, S. I love it. The LeBron meme was too much.
So good.
Now that I, you know, we didn't talk about it before the show. We didn't say anything. I was like, oh, this is a perfect opportunity. We're locked in right now.
We had no idea it was coming. So thank you. That was great. That's awesome. Speaking of lockdown.
In all seriousness, though, happy International Women's Day. Yeah, really.
Thank you. I appreciate that, guys. Appreciate you guys having me on. Being a part of this conversation. Of course. More than a part.
You're the squad. You're the team. Half the people that watch on YouTube just showing up for Xena. um speaking of showing up jason tatum showed up guys he came back friday night it was awesome it was great um you know he went oh for five to start including getting hung up on the rim on a dunk after a really nice move to get there and you know i found myself i kind of giggled at it you know because i was like i was rooting heavily like i was very invested in every single shot he took and when he hit that sidestep three I popped for that, guys. I yelled about it. It was awesome. It was great to see. And now, after watching it on Sunday and seeing him play against the Cavs, I'm less excited. I'm more scared for the Eastern Conference, guys.
Yeah, I mean, this is exactly what we imagined was going to happen with Tatum back into the lineup, that the Celtics would become even more dangerous. And what's really, I think, the most dangerous part is that Tatum has this luxury of not needing to be the guy for them, right? Like, Jalen Brown has been that person all season long. And there is going to be a little bit of an acclimation period as... Jason Tatum gets more aware of his surroundings and how he fits within the fold. But once Jason Tatum comes back and he's hitting the shots inside, outside, getting inside the paint, folks like Derek White, who have been forced all season long to put up threes that probably had a clip that he's not used to.
And you're seeing it in the fact that he has the lowest score. three-point shooting percentage that he's had in the last four years. You're seeing Jalen Brown have to do way more than he's typically had to do, and his shooting efficiency has also gone down. All of those guys are now going to benefit from the fact that they're going to be able to slot back into where they were supposed to be in terms of their shooting efficiency, their shooting clip, what they're expected to do, and defenses are going to respond to that as well. And so that's dangerous for me, that this guy that's coming in almost like a mid-season acquisition at the trade deadline, which Joe Mazzola said is going to be very similar situation.
They get to benefit.
Yeah. To me, it looks like the Celtic. I mean, it's a slow roll for Tatum to figure out what this new look team is, but it feels like the Celtics have two different identities now that they can go into early on against the Cavs. It was, Hey, we're going to mismatch hunt. We're going to get Tatum in that mid post area. He's going to create for us. And he started the game four or five. And you're like, Oh man, this is first team, all NBA, Jason Tatum. As the game progressed, you see them morphing into the same Jalen Brown, Derek White actions where guys are ghosting screens, they're popping out to the three-point line, they're disguising a lot of actions with Garza or Cater or whoever to be able to get them to roll to the basket too.
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