Jayson Tatum’s SHOCKING Workout Video STUNS Celtics Nation | Will He Return SOONER Than Expected?

Jayson Tatum’s SHOCKING Workout Video STUNS Celtics Nation | Will He Return SOONER Than Expected?

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There may be practices, there may be other things to talk about, but I will still do mailbags throughout the preseason. There will be plenty of time to answer your questions. So, keep those coming in. Uh later on, we’ll get to the fun questions, which I like to save for the third segment, including the city edition uniforms and team colors in general. In the second segment, we’ll get to the Celtics being a smart organization and the Anthony Simons comparison to Dennis Shruder. But I want to start, these are not actually uh mailbag questions, but they’re two things that I think if people wanted to ask about, they probably would come in uh if it wasn’t on like a Sunday. But I have to have to have to talk about two pieces of video. One, Jaylen Brown at the Patriots game. The other Jason Tatum releasing some video from his workout. Now, this was on his own personal YouTube page, uh, where he released like a was it like a 15inute video about his recovery and all of that. So, he included like 15 seconds. So, I don’t want to go too crazy, but it was 15 seconds of surprisingly mobile workout video where it obviously he wasn’t going to put his whole workout on there and it was spliced together to make him look good, but the jogging, it wasn’t sprinting, it wasn’t pushing off like crazy, but it was a nice paced jog. It was some stepbacks, like little light footwork, uh, stepping like, uh, multiple like back and forth type of things, dribbling sideways, pushing off with that right foot. He looked really good to the point where I was I was watching the video uh in my living room and I was like, “Oh, wow.” And my wife from the kitchen was like, you know, wondering why what are you so like what are you wowing about? And I said, it’s Jason Tatum’s workout video. He looks better than I expected. So I rewound it and she walked in. I played it for her. And she said, oh wow. And her words were, “If you didn’t know that he had an injury, would you question whether he was recovering from something in this video?” And I’d say, “No.” I I mean I might question why he was only like showing us like little things, but the way he was moving very encouraging, you know. Now I saw him over the summer uh dedicating a uh a new early education facility in Rhode Island and he had a little bit of a limp and you know since then obviously all of that stuff has gone away. He it looks good. the video of him working out. I don’t want to I really don’t want to overreact, but if you’ve listened to me on this podcast over the last few days, uh listened to the I think it was one of the podcasts with Tom Westerhome where I was trying to like not talk myself into him coming back this calendar year, but I’m looking at that video and saying, you know, it’s September and he looks like that October, November, December. for three months. Three months of working out like is that going to be enough? I I do believe like I have been saying March as him coming back. I’m going to revise that. I don’t think it’s going to be all the way till March. I think it’s February. And I I if I’m picking a target date, February 8th versus the Knicks. It’s a Sunday afternoon. Lots of kids will be there. I think that would be a great target date right before the all-star break. It would be five months of working out. So the the recovery time overall is nine months. It’s well within the standard kind of comeback time. And even as I’m saying this now, February February 8, like I’m I’m wondering if I shouldn’t be looking at games in January. So, I have to keep my head on straight. And again, just to throw this out there because I can hear people typing their comments in the YouTube page as I’m saying this. Don’t rush him back. Don’t rush him back. No one’s rushing him back. I am talking about fully cleared, fully everything, totally ready to play. And an element that I haven’t discussed here is if he’s fully healthy and fully cleared and ready to go and the team says, “No, we’re still not playing you.” The league, the NBA could potentially step in and say, “Is Jason Tatum fully recovered? Yes or no?” What’s the medical say? Do if he’s fully healthy and you’re holding him out of games, then you can’t do that. That’s the team could get fined for holding fully healthy guys out of games. So if he is cleared if he is cleared I don’t know how I could be any more clear about this. If he’s 100% no amount of waiting is going to make him more 100%. In fact at some point waiting waiting too long makes him too rusty. You got to give him some NBA reps just to get him back and knock off some of that in-game rust. I think it’s worth it. So, I think he’s coming back this season and I think he’s coming back earlier than I even expected and I’m one of the optimists. I’m one of the Tatum optimists. Now, the other piece of video I have to talk about is Jaylen Brown at the Patriots game was very nice. By the way, uh CBS did not I think they did not or it was Fox, it was uh the Fox Sports broadcast. They did not acknowledge that that Mark, they said Mark Wall, hey, Mark Wahberg is ringing the bell. Like, dude, there’s half the Boston Celtics were there. Jaylen Brown is there. Um but anyway, Jaylen and a bunch of the new guys were at the game. There’s a video of Jaylen throwing a football around, and you’re like, “Wait a second, Jaylen’s throwing that thing lefty. Why is Jaylen Brown throwing a football lefty? He’s right-handed. And you know, he look decent. Decent for throwing the ball left-handed. And like he’s not even like using his right hand to catch the ball. He had gloves on. He had the glove on. He kept the glove on the right hand. The someone threw him the ball and he just only used his left hand. He kind of kept the right hand out of the way. I’m like, what’s I checked Twitter and people are like, should I be worried about his wrist? What’s going on with his wrist? I I have no idea. I have no clue. I have no idea why he would do that. Why he would be throwing the ball around lefty? Is he doing it to mess with us? Is he doing it to to kind of get people talking? Does he want this kind of reaction? Has he is he turning into a Joel Embiid troll? I mean, he’s doing a lot of Twitch streams and stuff like that. Is he becoming like more online trying to mess with us? Or or is something up? I don’t know. I didn’t like what I saw. It’s I I wish I wish I had more information on this. like what’s what’s up with that wrist? Now, Monday as you’re listening to this, maybe even it’s media day and Jaylen will be up there and if if I don’t get to it first, someone else will be like, “Hey, what’s up with your wrist?” That’s going to be a question that gets asked and answered on Monday at the Celtics practice facility. So, I’m looking forward to that because I didn’t like that video. I didn’t like what I saw there. Um, but I don’t want to again I don’t want to overreact that way because it’s like could be could be anything. So, uh, we’ll leave it at that. Now, actual mail bag questions. We’re going to come back. We’re going to answer the question of the Celtics being smarter as an organization than the rest of the league. That’s coming up next. Today’s show is brought to you by FiveHour Energy. They have uh a nice little tasty flavor upgrade for your caffeine. Doesn’t have to be a boring cup of coffee, which not everybody has the taste for coffee. 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Maddie says, “I’m watching the ownership press conference and just keep having the most homerish and quite frankly Massachusetts superiority complexish sort of feelings about it. Can you check me on this? The Celtics are a smart organization in quotes compared to the rest of the league. Right? The front office does have a collaborative, hardworking, respectful, round well-rounded, balanced, positive work culture, right? This isn’t just press conference fluff. Obviously, there are a handful of other exceptionally wellrun organizations. I love OKC, though my Massachusetts pride bleeds over bleeds over to them as well. San Antonio operates as if it’s a family and so on. But I’m not normally one who buys into corporate BS. And yet I regularly find myself nodding along to their press conference jargon, fully ready to take the art make the argument that the Celtics are better and smarter and more measured and more equipped to build sustain sustainably because of their respect for culture and history blah blah blah. Am I crazy or am I just being a homer? Please validate me. I I love that quite I love the entire that normally I shorten questions like that. I encourage more concise questions, but this one I felt like it built towards something. All right, Mattie, I’ll validate you. Now, I I think the Celtics are one of the smart organizations. Are they smarter than others? I mean, they’re certainly smarter than some teams. You look at the Phoenix Suns, that’s a, you know, not the best run team. Uh, you look at other teams around the league and you can tell, you can pick them out. There are teams that are very you you mentioned a couple of them. OKC San Antonio are are very wellrun. These teams that are built Indiana is is wellrun and plenty of others. Like I think most of these organizations have really smart people involved. And now some of the questions, first of all, smart people can make dumb decisions. I mean, I consider myself a smart person and I make dumb decisions all the time. So, I’m certainly not one to throw stones. Uh, we all do it. You and and a lot of times those decisions are based on emotion or external pressure and you know, you you think you’re doing something right in the moment and it’s you’re like, “God, I shouldn’t do that.” So there are teams that make a trade, a bad trade, bad decision and it’s because of ownership pressure or you know fans you know they they give into fan decisions and you know some people are just some some front office people are just you know they have something a certain frame of mind in their head and they they just they don’t do the collabor collaborative thing. Looking at Dallas, the Celtics are, as you put it, Maddie, a smart organization, collaborative, hardworking, respectful, and well-rounded. They are, I think, a very strong example of bringing a lot of different people to the table, a lot of different perspectives to the table and respecting those perspectives. I think you see that in the coaching staff. I think you see that in the front office. think you see that around the, you know, from top to bottom. Um, they, you know, I don’t know what the numbers are as far as like, you know, different, uh, different ethnicities. You know, a lot of women work, uh, for for the Celtics. There are different, you know, backgrounds. There’s like just these are the types of things where you want different people from different walks of life to give their opinion and share a perspective that you wouldn’t have. and wouldn’t even think of the Celtics do a very good job of that. So, they are among I’m not going to sit there and say they are the smartest team um because it’s so it’s it is very subjective. Um if you want to say they are the smartest team in the league, I think you can certainly make a case. Most well-run team in the league, you can certainly make a case. And that goes from ownership allowing certain decisions to be made and those decisions being prudent. Um, so I I agree. I agree with everything that you’re saying, Maddie. Maybe maybe you know you’re at a a a 10 or an 11 and you know I’m I’m at a seven or an eight, but I do think highly I legitimately think highly of the way this team operates. So, um, you know, there are a lot of times where I think I got things figured out and then, you know, Brad Stevens just pulls something you’re like, “Oh man, not even not even close close to what I was, you know, thinking of.” And so, covering this team is humbling because of how smart they are. So yeah, I I think I think I don’t disagree. Even though, you know, again, as a Celtics fan, as a as a Bostononian or New Englander, you have like you want to take it to an inth degree. Totally fine. You’re well within your rights to do that. Um I think that’s validation. Michael says, “Not for any basketball reasons, but Anthony Simons presents on the Celtics uh is is giving me some real Dennis Shruder vibes. I just feels like it’s going to go the exact same way. People may not remember, but Shruder was instantly embraced by Celtics fans of the time. Put up some good numbers, provided some real a real sense of hope. Feel like Simon’s going to do the same thing. But at the end of the day, I think they’re limitations. And just like Shruder feels like he’s not here for the long haul. So, I I can see situationally, not for basketball reasons, but situational reasons. I can see the comparison. Um, I think one of the things that I I was not the biggest and I still am not the biggest Dennis Shruder guy. Acknowledge that he, you know, he’s good. He’s a good player. Um, and put him in international competition and he’s incredible. But I I will hope that the similarities end at style of play because I remember a lot of Tatum in one corner, Jaylen in the other, Shruder at the top of the key running a pick and roll with I forget who. Um, and like end of game situations, it was Shruder. Shruder was taking these last shots and you’re like, “Buddy, we could we got Jason Tatum on this team, man. We got Jaylen Brown on this team. maybe you should find those guys. Um, so I think there was a little too much of that. Uh, but yeah, I think Simons, you know, the difference is also Shruder was acquired, I believe, via mid-level exception. If I’m not mistaken, it was like a a taxpayer midlevel. and he was he had recently turned down a big offer from the Lakers and the offers weren’t coming in and the Celtics kind of swooped in and got him at a real bargain. This is a little different. Simons makes a lot more money than Shruder did. But I think so I think that that’s why there was a lot of like instant hoopla when Shruder came in because it became like oh my god I can’t believe they got Shruder. like he’s not no great shakes, but he’s he’s still a pretty good player. You got him at the tax pyramid level. What a bargain. That’s insane that you got him for that. But they they did ultimately have to they had to move him by the trade deadline because it wasn’t like he wasn’t allowing Tatum and Brown to really grow. And so I don’t think that Simons is going to have that same impact. Now, Simons might also be moved by the deadline, but for different reasons. Think if Simons is moved by the deadline, it’s because the Celtics found a big man. I think that’s Brad’s kind of biggest goal this season. Can you pry a big man away from a team, a big man of the future, and use Simons as the guy to get that get that player in? If you save a few bucks, you save a few bucks along the way. But, uh, I appreciate that comparison. I think the situations are similar in a lot of ways, but the impact and all of that could be, uh, a bit different. So, um, but yeah, I like that. Okay, we’re going to come back. We’re going to talk about Celtics fandom, my excuse me, non-existent Celtics fandom, I guess, and the Celtic City edition jerseys and all of that stuff. New uh team colors, all of that stuff. That’s all coming up next. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. If you’re a new customer and you got five bucks, you want to make that bet, you can get 300 bonus bets if you win. NFL season is here. I remember last week I said, “Hey, Patriots giving up five and a half points to the Panthers. I’ll take that as my $5 bet.” No problem. 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So, go do that at fanuel.com. Place that first $5 bet and you could get 300 in bonus bets. Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listener of day. Remember, tomorrow’s show is going to be media day. As you’re listening to this, media day might even be over. I will be there. I will be asking questions of everybody. This is going to be a flood a flood of Celtics content. So, get my stuff at Boston Sports Journal. You get it here. plenty plenty plenty uh to talk about. So, subscribe if you’re not subscribed yet. Watch the show on YouTube. All that good stuff. All right, let’s get back to the mailbag questions and we’re going to have some fun. Third segments are always a little bit of fun. Although, Peter says, “It bums me out a little bit that you and Tom Tom Westerhome, who co-host with me every once in a while, says you aren’t Celtics fans at all. I understand removing emotion from work is necessary. And I also think the Celtics can be very goofy. You’re telling me that when JT hits a spin move fadeaway jumper for the win or Jaylen Brown posterize someone, you’re not even excited for the team a little bit. It’s not the same. It’s not the same. Like, it’s not what I used to be. Now, I’ve been very open and clear and honest about this. I grew up in Rhode Island. I I cut my teeth on the 80s Celtics. I patterned my basketball game over after Kevin McCale. I was a huge Celtics fan. Um, I went to games. I got drunk in the stands. I cheered. I was, you know, there for milestone moments. And so, you know, I started reds army.com. I was a fan blogger for a while. But for me to do this job properly, I need to I need to remove the emotion. Um, and so when Tatum hits that spin move, I don’t have time to be excited for the team. Now, I’ll sit there and be like, “Oh, wow.” You know, I have reactions. I’m a human being. When Jaylen Brown posterized somebody, I like look around on Press Row. I’m like, “Oh my god.” You know what I mean? I have to have that kind of connection with how fans are reacting. But I absolutely need to be impartial. the Celtics. I if in that scenario where Tatum hits the turnaround fadeaway for the win, did he bail out the Celtics on a bad night? Did Tatum make up for a bad night with that shot? Did something happen where I have to be I can’t just sit there and be like, “Yay! Oh my god, they’re so awesome.” I can’t do that because I to me that lacks credibility. It lacks depth. you know, my and I’m not criticizing people who do do that. That’s there’s certainly places, plenty of places. There are plenty of good strictly fan reaction rah pompoms loving the team when they win, crying about it. Not literally, but like being very upset when they lose. Totally fine. Totally valid. If that’s how you want to celebrate a win or or cope with a loss, go for it. You know, to me, that’s not my, you know, that’s not my department, right? It’s like a supermarket, you know, I’m the I’m whatever you want to call me, the bakery department, there’s a meat department, there’s a seafood department, there’s, you know, different places where you can go into that supermarket of Celtics podcast and be like, I want this, I want that, I want that. And I do hope you make me your first listen every day. But I understand that sometimes you want like that strictly fan just celebratory thing. And look, there’s plenty of room for celebration here as well. But I have to cut through. I have to be honest. And if I’m down on the team, I have to tell you that I’m down on the team. If they’re losing, and I got to tell you why they’re losing. I got to tell you that. I just got to be honest with it because I want you to understand what’s really going on. And frankly, that’s what I’m good at. That’s that’s where I’m at my best. And so for me to give you a good show, that’s what I got to do. And so I’m sorry that, you know, I don’t want to say I’m not a Celtics fan at all. I do want them to do well. I am happy for them when they win. But I also want to say that if I was covering the Detroit Pistons for my career, I would have the same thing. I would want them to win because I like good basketball. And I have to cover this from that perspective of is it good basketball or is it not? And if it’s good basketball, it should be celebrated. So luckily I cover the Boston Celtics. And so I I want to celebrate them. So I hope that that kind of clarifies things. Speaking of celebrating, Kevin says, “What do you think about the new Boston Celtics edition jersey with the gold lettering and the white base? First time in years I haven’t seen a Celtic I’ve seen a Celtic jersey without the use of green. I Okay. And he says, “I hope the green headbands and elbow sleeves make up for it.” I do agree. First of all, I love that jersey. I think it’s their best city edition jersey in a long time. I I think it’s really really nice. It’s simple. It’s basically a Celtics jersey in gold. Could they have used a green to outline the letters and numbers as opposed to black? Sure. Uh I don’t mind that there’s no green. As Kevin said, you could do green headbands. You could do green sleeves, green, you know, green and gold or whatever, however they want to do their their tights and all of that stuff. Um, you can certainly add those elements. It’s okay if it’s if they don’t have a little green in them. We know the Celtics are green and white. Yeah, every once in a while you can do an alternate that has like a different a slightly different color scheme. As far as I’m concerned, green, white, and gold, that’s all very, you know, Celtic Irish kind of thing. So, it all plays. It all works for me. Um, so that’s okay. In fact, I’ll take it a step further. I want them to change their court. I’ve said this on this podcast before. When they wear the city edition jerseys, there should be like a gold accented court. There should be a logo like a one of their alternate logos. Even if it’s the Celtics script in gold, totally fine. You should mix that in a little bit. Get get have some fun with it. Don’t say like, “Oh, history and blah blah blah.” Celtics didn’t have that logo on the floor until the mid70s that all that run Bill Russell all that history even through 1974 when they won a championship there wasn’t a logo on that floor there plenty of Celtics champ most Celtics championships have been won on a floor with no logo and then they had the green and white Celtics logo and then that changed to a green uh a white background and colorized and then most recently it’s gone to without the white background. So, the logo has changed plenty over the years, including having not been there at all. So, mixing in a a Celtics court, still Parket floor, just a gold alternate logo, I think that would be sweet. Be awesome. Uh, a couple more here. Ruben says, “What section in row in TD is the best to have the seats right next to the tunnel where the players come out?” Um, I think it’s section 20 because I’m in section 19 and I’m on If you’re facing the tunnel, I’m on the left side on of the So, if you’re facing the Celtics bench, there’s like my section, the tunnel, and then behind the bench, I think, is section 20. And obviously, you want to get a little closer. Um, I don’t know what numbers, but obviously you want to be on that one end. So, you can see it on the map, the TD Garden. Uh, if you’re looking straight down at the TD Garden map where the Celtics benches are on the bottom, if the Celtics benches are on the bottom, it’s at like 5:00. If the Celtics bench is at the top, it’s like 10:00 on the on the map. So, that’s the section you want to look at. And Francis asks, “Why do you think do you think there needs to be more color variety in NBA teams? Seems like there are too many blue and red teams. And why are there no teams with green jerseys except for the Bucks and Celtics?” Uh, you know, it’s an interesting question. Uh, well, when the Sonics come back, they will be green, so that’ll be another team. Uh, and if they add an expansion team in Vegas, I don’t know what that team will be that if they do black and white and gray. If they are are kind of like Vegas, um, because the Aces I are black and white and the Raiders are in Vegas, maybe they just kind of want to do that. But yeah, you know, look, it’s it’s tough with colors. It’s tough to find the complimentary colors. You want to get something that people are going to wear. So you can’t get too crazy, you know, and you don’t like purple is so Lakers. Uh you got Lakers and Kings. So there’s like only a couple of teams that you can do like purple. Hornets have purple and teal. Um you got to you got to be careful with the the combinations. You don’t want to go too crazy because you want to sell merchandise and so it has to be basic. People like blue. People like red. People, you know, you don’t want to go too crazy. You can’t have a pink team. You, you know, purple is tough as a primary color because not a lot of people wear purple. Um, so you got to do uh another good color with that. Um, but black and red, black and, you know, like that that’s that’s easy. Oh, we’re talking about green. The Dallas Mavericks have green in their Well, they do blue, but they have a green like alternate color, too. Um, so yeah, I don’t know what other color schemes. It’s not It’s not easy. You can’t get too crazy with it. If I had a color scheme, I I don’t know if I would go like how I would do it. And you you also got to be careful of like not going too trendy because if you get too trendy, you end up being like stuck. Oh, purple in uh Toronto with this with because I was thinking about Barney the dinosaur. They named themselves the Toronto Raptors because Jurassic Park was big and Raptors was a thing and like that’s why they’re the Raptors. I don’t think there’s a big like Raptor exhibit in Toronto, is there? Maybe I’m wrong, but that was that was right around the time of Jurassic Park. They named themselves after a movie. You got to be careful about and I like the name. I like the name, so I think they kind of got it right. You got to be careful about being too trendy. What are you gonna do? Brown. What other color? yellow. Yellow you it’s like you got to match that with there’s only a few colors you can really match that with and that’s already like the Pacers. It’s already like you purple and gold in in LA. You got to be careful with with that stuff. You could do orange Phoenix. Yeah. So there’s not much that you can do color-wise. But I don’t know. Get in the comments section. Let me know if you if you started your own team. What colors would you pick? do that. All right. 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Jayson Tatum’s workout video sparks excitement for Celtics fans. Could the Boston star return sooner than expected?

John Karalis analyzes Tatum’s impressive mobility and form, hinting at a potential January comeback. The discussion shifts to Jaylen Brown’s puzzling left-handed football throw at a Patriots game, raising questions about his wrist. Then we dive into the mailbag, where Karalis explores the Celtics’ reputation as one of the NBA’s smartest organizations, praising their collaborative approach. The new gold City Edition jersey gets a thumbs up, with suggestions for a matching court design.

Tune in for expert insights on Tatum’s recovery, Brown’s mysterious throw, and the Celtics’ organizational strengths.

1:30 Intro: Mailbag, Tatum workout, Brown at Patriots game
5:37 Predicting Tatum’s return date in February
8:30 Jaylen Brown throwing lefty
11:45 Are Celtics the smartest NBA organization?
17:23 Comparing Anfernee Simons to Dennis Schröder
24:01 Host’s perspective on being a Celtics fan
27:30 City edition jerseys
30:09 Best seats near player tunnel at TD Garden
31:11 NBA team colors and lack of variety
34:15 Upcoming Media Day and podcast wrap-up

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Locked On Celtics is a daily Boston Celtics podcast by Boston Sports Journal beat writer John Karalis. It’s an inside look at the C’s from a former professional basketball player who is at practices & games.

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