{"id":676791,"date":"2026-03-24T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/676791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:32:30","slug":"jayson-tatum-still-has-a-way-to-go-in-recovery-should-boston-celtics-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/676791\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum still has a way to go in recovery; should Boston Celtics be worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even Jayson Tatum is admitting he is not playing like the version of himself he had hoped to be. After returning from a devastating Achilles tendon injury, the St. Louis native has been working to reintegrate himself into the Celtics rotation, and that process has been up and down as might be suspected given the gravity of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>But after seeing him play quite well on some nights and seeing how close this version of the team is to being a contender against the odds, it is also hard not to worry that Boston might not be quite good enough with Tatum in top form. Just how worried should we be about Tatum looking like he still has a ways to go to get back to his usual self?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the &#8220;WEEI Boston Sports Original&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip from their &#8220;WEEI Afternoon Show&#8221; to talk it all over. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2026\/03\/24\/jayson-tatum-still-has-a-way-to-go-in-recovery-should-celtics-be-worried\/89303288007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jayson Tatum still has a way to go in recovery; should Celtics be worried?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jayson Tatum still has a way to go in recovery&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Jayson Tatum still has a way to go in recovery; should Celtics be worried?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even Jayson Tatum is admitting he is not playing like the version of himself he had hoped to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[6769,7,45,75,3798,46,77,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-676791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-achilles-tendon-injury","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116285586995996872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676791","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=676791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}