{"id":486949,"date":"2026-03-07T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486949"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:01:52","slug":"298-days-later-jayson-tatum-is-back-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/298-days-later-jayson-tatum-is-back-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"298 days later, Jayson Tatum is back on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Last night, in the Boston Celtics&#8217; victory over the Dallas Mavericks at TD Garden, <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"84\">Jayson Tatum made his long-awaited return to the court.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">It has been <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"12\">298 days<\/b> since May 12, 2025, when the Celtics&#8217; number 0 was forced to the sidelines during Game 4 of the Conference Semifinals against the New York Knicks due to a <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"176\">ruptured Achilles tendon<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">In his comeback performance, he recorded <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"41\">15 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 assists<\/b>. While it will clearly take some time before we see the &#8216;real&#8217; Tatum back in peak form, his return is undoubtedly crucial for Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad, especially with the <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"247\">playoffs<\/b> on the horizon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WELCOME BACK, JAYSON TATUM \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0 15 PTS<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc0 12 REB<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc0 7 AST<\/p>\n<p>298 days ago: Achilles tear.<br \/>\nTonight: A near-triple-double. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lqev9sVSDN\">pic.twitter.com\/Lqev9sVSDN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2030111252144324749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2026<\/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>Last night, in the Boston Celtics&#8217; victory over the Dallas Mavericks at TD Garden, Jayson Tatum made his long-awaited return to the court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":454627,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/boston-celtics-jayson-tatum.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486949","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486949"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486949"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486949"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}