{"id":461162,"date":"2025-09-23T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=461162"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:41","slug":"celtics-jayson-tatum-leaves-door-open-for-2025-26-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/celtics-jayson-tatum-leaves-door-open-for-2025-26-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics: Jayson Tatum Leaves Door Open for 2025\u201326 Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics star forward Jayson Tatum, currently sidelined with a torn Achilles tendon, made it clear on ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FirstTake\"><em>First Take<\/em><\/a> that he isn\u2019t ruling out playing next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve said this before, but I want to reiterate it\u2014I never said I won\u2019t play next year,\u201d Tatum explained. \u201cI have no intention of rushing the recovery, but I don&#8217;t go to rehab six days a week for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tatum also addressed the skepticism surrounding Boston\u2019s 2025\u201326 outlook following his injury and the team\u2019s offseason departures. \u201cWith the Celtics there\u2019s a certain standard that goes beyond the names on the court,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a pride that pushes us to always compete for a championship\u2014that won\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Tatum cited Kobe Bryant\u2019s rapid comeback from the same injury in 2013 as a source of inspiration. Bryant returned in roughly eight months, a timeline that could have Tatum back before the All-Star break if all goes well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, my team, the doctors, and the organization, the most important thing is a full recovery,\u201d Tatum added. \u201cI have a goal in mind, but I\u2019d rather keep it private. Like I said, I\u2019m not doing rehab six days a week for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t go to rehab six days a week for nothing.&#8221; \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum leaves the door open for a return this season \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8o5UMxG1Dt\">pic.twitter.com\/8o5UMxG1Dt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 First Take (@FirstTake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstTake\/status\/1970528471236358342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tatum also addressed the skepticism surrounding Boston\u2019s 2025\u201326 outlook: \u201cWith the Celtics there\u2019s a certain standard that goes beyond the names on the court,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a pride that pushes us to always compete for a championship\u2014that won\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":391114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/jayson-tatum-nba-finals.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461162"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461162"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461162"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}