Like the Celtics are preparing for the season without Jayson Tatum, including a visit to Bill Nye The Science Guy
Boston-Speed ​​almost five months since Boston Celtics’s Superstar Jayson Tatums broke the Achille Right tendon in the second round of the NBA playoffs, but Tuesday will mark one of the most difficult days of his healing, while his teammates take the court for the first time of the 2025-26 campaign.
“Now it is a difficult point where you can find yourself, because the team exercises tomorrow and I will not be able to be out there,” Tatum said from the media holidays of the media on Monday. “I am sure that when the season begins and they are not out there, it will be mentally demanding, but you only try to look for bright days in which you can get it.”
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One of those days arrived during the weekend, when for the first time since the Tatum injury took the rehearsal field, making a light contact without contact and sharing videos with his fans on social media.
Houston Rockets Kevin Durant’s superstar – the main example of how to return healthy by an Achille injury – was surprised as much as all the others at the speed with which Tatum has returned to the field:
“He is doing everything possible to return, and we don’t know when it will be, but we hope it is this season,” said Sam Hauser, who is among a great contingent of Celtics who trained all summer in Boston, where Tatum has reduced every day. “He is the first inside and the last outside.”
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This is a common refrain among the Celtics, since the questions have moved from, Will Tatum return this season? TO, When will Tatum return this season? A game at home. It was all that Tatum was willing to share with us.
“I don’t care who we play,” Tatum said, “but it will be a home game.”
In the meantime, the Celtics will rely on the co-protagonist of Tatum, Jaylen Brown. The four times all-stars is not trying to be tatum, but understands that his role will be expanded, in particular as a director.
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“I feel like I had shown it in different points of my career, and this is the narrative with which everyone wants to go, but I will approach the same way I have always approached,” said Brown. “Obviously, I will have more responsibilities with Jayson who is not here, but there is also a possibility for the other guys to intensify. So, [it’s about] Authorize other guys, trust your teammates more than your teammates, trying to speed up the boys’ learning curve and play basketball. I think it’s what people want to see. “
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Likewise, Brown is expanding his leadership off the pitch or, as he admits, embraces the community and putting his authentic self a little more. He invited every member of the Celtics to join him as a guest of the New England Patriots on Sunday, and on Monday he was joined by the Media Day by Bill Nye The Science Guy, who led experiments together with Brown and his teammates at the practice structure.
“He is naturally good enough to gather the troops,” said Hauser of Brown. “Sunday, he had a lot of guys who went with him to the game of Patriots. Anyone who was available went with him, so things like that are fantastic. Many guys who went to new faces, and it is a good chance for them to meet Jaylen and he to meet them and create those ties soon, and then they only hope for skicy from there.
Hauser is among the return rotation players who will also see a role expanded in the absence of Tatum, together with Derrick White, Payton Pimm and NeemiaS Queta. That group, with Brown, is the first favorite for the five initials, leaving the new arrivals Anfernee Simons, Luka Garza, Chris Boucher and Josh Minott to leave the bench. From the outside, it is not so inspiring a group like the Boston teams of the last ten years, but internally there is hope that everyone can collectively keep the strong in the absence of Tatum.
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“It’s a different team,” said Queta. “We have lost many of the main voices in the changing rooms, many of our veterans leadership. It is part of our growth. As younger kids, we must also find our voice, be more vocal. It will be like one thing about the committee. We all have to improve a little more and contribute a little more with our voices. Everyone puts a little more in their little more, their 5%and we go from there.”
In this sense, therefore, even if almost everything has changed, things are the same around Boston. “Kaizen” – the growth mentality – is still decorated above their weight room, a business card for the Celtics. Through hard work comes the improvement and if everyone acquires, perhaps, perhaps, they can fill the gap to the return of Tatum.
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“Every year”, the goal should be to win a championship, said Celtics Joe Mazzulla coach. “It should be.
“It is doing everything to go after the process of winning a championship, because I think there is a lot that is out of your control. But in the end the day the process of winning is the final goal, and this will always be the goal as long as you train every day.