Feb. 12, 2026, 4:42 p.m. ET
The Boston Celtics have been playing well, but they are also about to take a much-needed week off with the rest of the NBA for All-Star Week. How should the team approach such a dynamic? Especially given how well Boston has been playing, as well as the potential return of an All-NBA player from injury soon after in one Jayson Tatum.
Reserve Boston forward Jordan Walsh weighed in on the topic after the Celtics demolished the Chicago Bulls 124-105 at TD Garden this past Wednesday (Feb. 11) evening, saying that he and his teammates need to “be ready to come back and attack the remainder of the season.”
He also noted that Boston head coach Joe Mazzulla wanted them to “pretty much kept it simple. He wants to get out as much as everybody else. So, just knowing that when we do get back, then it’s all back to business, back to fighting for a position that we want to get to, a place we want to get to, and that’s the focus as a group/
As to what Mazzulla had to say about the looming pause, he suggested he doesn’t “know that it’s important one way or another. It really just depends on how we attack the week from a recovery standpoint, and then how we attack heading back into it.”
“You could feel really good now and then if we don’t come back with the right mindset or what we need to have, you could feel really bad and come back with the right mindset,” he added. “Just continuing to stick to the process, regardless of the result. How do we get better, what does that look like. So, for next week, it looks like recovery, physically and mentally, and then we get back after.”
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