{"id":505803,"date":"2026-03-05T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:53:07","slug":"celtics-jayson-tatum-listed-as-questionable-on-verge-of-return-9-months-after-achilles-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505803\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Jayson Tatum listed as &#8216;questionable,&#8217; on verge of return 9 months after Achilles surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Hightower, The Associated PressMarch 05, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is on the verge of making a return to NBA action nine months after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/tatum-to-miss-remainder-of-playoffs-after-achilles-tendon-surgery-imperiling-celtics-repeat-hopes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rupturing his right Achilles tendon injury<\/a>\u00a0during last season\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tatum was listed as questionable on the Celtics\u2019 injury report on Thursday ahead of the team\u2019s home matchup with the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is the first time this season he hasn\u2019t been listed as sidelined and undergoing rehabilitation for the injury he suffered during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/jayson-tatum-celtics-injury-playoffs-mri-wheelchair-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 4 of Boston\u2019s Eastern Conference<\/a> semifinal loss to the New York Knicks last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens has said that Tatum wouldn\u2019t be cleared to return until he was ready to play both physically and mentally. That time may have arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Hightower, The Associated PressMarch 05, 2026 Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is on the verge of making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-505803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505803","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=505803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}