{"id":599440,"date":"2026-02-12T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599440\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:07:13","slug":"celtics-jayson-tatum-reveals-silver-lining-of-devastating-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599440\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Jayson Tatum Reveals Silver Lining Of Devastating Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/celtics-jayson-tatum-gets-vulnerable-about-devastating-achilles-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tough season<\/a> for Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum, who\u2019s spent the entire campaign rehabbing his Achilles injury from last May.<\/p>\n<p>Not playing has been hard for Tatum, who was one of the most durable players in the NBA prior to his injury. It\u2019s been a big adjustment for a guy who takes pride in playing as many games as possible.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, watching so many games from the sidelines has given him a different perspective on the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sit next to the coaches during all the games, so I hear their commentary and see it through the lens of a coach. I see [the game] from that perspective a lot more than I would have ever seen it before,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CelticsMuse\/status\/2021376030326304847\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tatum said recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jayson Tatum on traveling with the team while recovering:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sit next to the coaches during all the games, so I hear their commentary and see it through the lens of a coach. I see [the game] from that perspective a lot more than I would have ever seen it before.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lofAZjENeF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lofAZjENeF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CelticsMuse (@CelticsMuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticsMuse\/status\/2021376030326304847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While he hasn\u2019t been able to suit up, Tatum has made a point of traveling with the team as much as possible and of continuing to support his teammates. He\u2019s seen a lot of games from the bench now, and it sounds like it\u2019s been a good learning experience for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It also helps that he\u2019s able to learn from some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/jayson-tatum-reveals-what-joe-mazzulla-brings-to-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">league\u2019s best coaches<\/a> in Joe Mazzulla, Sam Cassell and others.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, don\u2019t be surprised if Tatum is a smarter, more tactical basketball player when he returns, which may be soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/nba-insider-gives-exciting-jayson-tatum-injury-update-after-new-rehab-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He could return<\/a> before the end of the regular season, which would be a huge boost for a resilient Celtics squad that enters the All-Star Break as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/celtics-enter-all-star-break-on-high-note-after-obliterating-bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second seed in the Eastern Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a tough season for Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum, who\u2019s spent the entire campaign rehabbing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,77,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-599440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-jayson-tatum","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116059232534008478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}