The Boston Celtics are nonetheless reeling from their first-round playoff collapse towards the Philadelphia 76ers. However at the very least they do not have to fret about ahead Jayson Tatum needing to get well from one other vital damage.
Tatum did not play in Recreation 7 towards Philadelphia at TD Backyard in Boston on Saturday night time due to stiffness in his left knee. He suffered the damage in Recreation 6 of the collection on April 30.
The ahead missed a lot of the common season as a result of a proper Achilles tear suffered throughout a second-round playoff collection towards the New York Knicks in Could 2025. At his end-of-season information convention on Sunday, Tatum clarified that this situation is not as extreme because the earlier damage.
Jayson Tatum discusses left knee damage
“It was positively a day-to-day factor,” Tatum mentioned (h/t Celtics on CLNS). “It sounds fairly imprecise, but it surely was simply one thing we’d’ve assessed from day-to-day. It wasn’t a long-term factor. I do know for a reality I might’ve been capable of play if we had made it to the second spherical.”
