S.I.’s Chris Mannix on a Possible Return Timeline for Celtics F Jayson Tatum | The Rich Eisen Show

Will Jason Tatum be a part of this season, sir? Because just jumping right into it. Let’s just get right to it. This man over there uh and all the Celtics honks are seeing him looking pretty spry on a practice court right now. What do you think? Is there any possibility it was? So that was like a six-minute YouTube video that Tatum uploaded that really 12 seconds of it captivated everybody. And that was the time he spent on the court in Boston. Now, he did his first onc court workout about a week ago, Monday now. So, that was the first time he got back on the court. I was in New York with him last week, and he said that was the first time he’s felt like a basketball player again. That said, I didn’t expect to see that. I didn’t expect to see the cutting, the movements, all the things that you see Tatum go through in a normal workout. So, it was incredibly encouraging. But when I talk to people that are close to Tatum and people around the Celtics, they’re pumping the brakes pretty hard on the anticipation game, um, because they know this injury is a tricky one. It’s a tricky one to fully recover from. And even when you feel like you’re fully recovered, you don’t want to be kind of overcompensating in other areas to to protect this this type of injury. So they’re excited in Boston that he’s doing all this, but nobody out there is, you know, stamping the All-Star break or March as a time to bring him back. Okay. So he is still human. He’s not an alien. And I think the other variable too in this is, you know, the Celtics, this is a gap year. There’s no doubt about it. Like maybe they can make the playoffs, but they’re not competing for anything this year. Next year, 26 27 is when they’re back in the mix. And what’s the best thing that could help them in that year? is probably having a lottery pick. Like they control their own draft pick in this next June’s draft. I I don’t think it would bother too many people in Boston if they wound up slipping into the lottery and are able to use that pick to get another cheap controllable player or trade that pick to get a veteran that helps this mix. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app.

NBA on NBC/Sports Illustrated reporter Chris Mannix tells Rich Eisen when the Boston Celtics can expect Jayson Tatum to return from his Achilles injury.

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