{"id":486512,"date":"2026-03-04T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486512"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:43:43","slug":"celtics-tatums-return-is-a-matter-of-when-not-if-per-macmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/celtics-tatums-return-is-a-matter-of-when-not-if-per-macmahon\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics: Tatum\u2019s return is \u201ca matter of when, not if,\u201d per MacMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1556\">Around the league, the expectation is that <strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1402\">Jayson Tatum<\/strong> will be back <strong data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1431\">this season<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s a matter of when, not if,\u201d as <strong data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1486\">Tim MacMahon<\/strong> put it in the latest chatter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1755\">The main signal is on-court activity: Tatum has been doing <strong data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1642\">5-on-5 work for weeks<\/strong>, a significant step that typically precedes clearance and reintegration.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1989\">There\u2019s also a competitive edge to his timeline: he wants to be sure he doesn\u2019t return in a reduced role, echoed by the line circulating widely \u2014 \u201c<strong data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"1947\">I\u2019m not coming back to be a role player<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2156\"><em data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2064\">Source: <strong data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2034\">Tim MacMahon (@BannedMacMahon)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston\u2019s star has been playing 5-on-5 for weeks as his comeback ramps up<\/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-486512","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\/486512","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=486512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486512\/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=486512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486512"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486512"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486512"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}