Jayson Tatum’s recovery from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in May took a big step Monday with the Boston Celtics assigning him to practice with their G League affiliate.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Celtics said Tatum would participate in portions of the practice at the Auerbach Center in Boston along with teammates Hugo Gonzalez and Amari Williams.<\/p>\n
After the session, he will be recalled by the Celtics and continue his rehab.<\/p>\n
The team did not offer any additional details on a potential timetable for Tatum to return.<\/p>\n
Tatum tore his Achilles tendon in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks last May. The Celtics have thrived despite his absence, going 34-19, good for third place in the East, behind All-Star Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n
Asked last week about returning, Tatum wondered aloud whether he might upset the team’s chemistry if he did.<\/p>\n
“That’s something I contemplate every day,” he said on “The Pivot” podcast. “They would have played 50-some odd games without me. So they have an identity this year, or things they’ve felt that have clicked for them, and it’s been successful.<\/p>\n
“So there’s a thought in my head that is, like: ‘How does that work? How does that look with me integrating myself off an injury.’ And it is a thought, like, ‘Damn, do I come back, or should I wait?'”<\/p>\n
But Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens, in the wake of a trade deadline that saw the team acquire Nikola Vucevic, assured Tatum that the team is better with him on board.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, any team with Jayson Tatum’s going to be better,” Stevens said Friday. “If he needs it, I’ll tell him every day. Because every team — all 30 of us — would be way, way better with him on the team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum’s recovery from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in May took a big step Monday with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[214364,214363,355,99],"class_list":["post-459040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-2","tag-jayson-tatum-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-937647","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}