The Boston Celtics are nonetheless reeling from their first-round playoff collapse towards the Philadelphia 76ers. However at the least they do not have to fret about ahead Jayson Tatum needing to get better from one other vital harm.
Tatum did not play in Sport 7 towards Philadelphia at TD Backyard in Boston on Saturday evening due to stiffness in his left knee. He suffered the harm in Sport 6 of the sequence on April 30.
The ahead missed a lot of the common season attributable to a proper Achilles tear suffered throughout a second-round playoff sequence towards the New York Knicks in Might 2025. At his end-of-season information convention on Sunday, Tatum clarified that this concern is not as extreme because the earlier harm.
Jayson Tatum discusses left knee harm
“It was undoubtedly a day-to-day factor,” Tatum mentioned (h/t Celtics on CLNS). “It sounds fairly obscure, nevertheless it 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.”
