{"id":487799,"date":"2026-02-18T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487799\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:27:08","slug":"celtics-notes-tatum-brown-film-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487799\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Notes: Tatum, Brown, Film Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Dana Gauruder<\/a> |
\n at February 17, 2026 5:28 pm <\/p>\n

There has been increased speculation that Jayson Tatum<\/a> might play this season but the Celtics superstar isn\u2019t sure about that, Ramona Shelburne reported during an NBA on ESPN segment (video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tatum informed Shelburne that \u201cI still have not made a decision on whether or not I\u2019m coming back this year.\u201d Shelburne added that there\u2019s no pressure from the organization on Tatum to make a comeback before next season and that Tatum has numerous hurdles to clear before he\u2019s ready to play after tearing his Achilles during last season\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n

According to Steve Bulpett on Heavy.com<\/a>, a seemingly innocuous post on social media set off a firestorm of speculation. The post on Twitter\/X and Bluesky noted that the Celtic home game against Philadelphia on March 1 had been flexed from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and would now be televised by NBC. That led many people to conclude that Tatum and the Celtics were targeting that game for his comeback.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Celtics:<\/p>\n

What do medical experts say about Tatum potentially coming back less than a year after suffering the injury and undergoing surgery? They\u2019re generally cautious about a swift return, according to Souichi Terada of Masslive.com<\/a>. \u201cThe Achilles tendon injury is still a poorly-recognized injury in terms of why it happens,\u201d said Dr. George Theodore, a specialist at Mass General Hospital.\u00a0 \u201cAlthough we\u2019re always looking for reasons as to why this might have occurred to an athlete, we really don\u2019t know. It is a devastating injury and it has an excessive recovery time. In some players, it affects both their performance and their career longevity.\u201d Terada also interviews athletes who have suffered Achilles injuries, noting that many struggled with the mental aspects of trusting their bodies after such a long recovery time.
\nJaylen Brown<\/a> is proud of how the team has come together despite the front office\u2019s efforts to reduce salary during the offseason and prior to the trade deadline, he told Noa Dalzell of CelticsBlog.com<\/a>. \u201cI believed that we were going to be fine, but even to me, it\u2019s like, \u2018Damn, we\u2019re the second seed \u2013 one of the five best records in the whole league,\u201d Brown said. \u201cOnly a few teams have a better record than us in the\u00a0entire league. We\u2019re a top-five team in the league, coming from the start of the season, when it was [supposed to be] a gap year.\u201d Exceeding expectations is something that has Brown beaming with pride. \u201cEverybody\u00a0was calling it a gap year,\u201d Brown said. \u201cHow do you go from a gap year to top five in the East? That\u2019s a big jump. That\u2019s not a small jump. People want to skip over that. I\u2019m not gonna let you skip over it. That is a big deal.\u201d
\nOne of the keys to the Celtics\u2019 success has been preparation. In an extensive piece, Jack Simone of the Boston Sports Journal<\/a> talks to coaches and players about their devotion to film study and how it gives them an edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dana Gauruder | at February 17, 2026 5:28 pm There has been increased speculation that Jayson Tatum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,15610,7230,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-487799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-jaylen-brown","12":"tag-jayson-tatum","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}