{"id":481269,"date":"2026-01-29T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481269"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:45:34","slug":"jayson-tatum-hasnt-decided-yet-he-could-sit-out-the-rest-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jayson-tatum-hasnt-decided-yet-he-could-sit-out-the-rest-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum hasn\u2019t decided yet: he could sit out the rest of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1708\"><strong data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1501\">Jayson Tatum<\/strong> told ESPN on Wednesday night he still hasn\u2019t decided whether he will return this season following a torn Achilles tendon. \u201cI want to get it right the first time, so it\u2019s just a lot to think about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"2051\">Injured during the playoffs in May, Tatum said his rehab has been progressing well and he feels stronger every week, but he\u2019s waiting to make a call because of how serious the injury is. He has recently increased his workload and went through a full workout in front of reporters in Detroit last week, fueling late-season return speculation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2315\">The <strong data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2075\">Boston Celtics<\/strong> are currently tied with the <strong data-start=\"2104\" data-end=\"2123\">New York Knicks<\/strong> for the second-best record in the East (29-18). Earlier Wednesday, NBA TV\u2019s \u201cThe Association\u201d reported that Tatum was reevaluating his situation and considering sitting out the entire season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2317\" data-end=\"2387\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics star told ESPN he wants to \u201cget it right the first time\u201d after a torn Achilles tendon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371685,"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-481269","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\/02\/Boston-Celtics.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481269","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481269"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481269"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481269"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}