Jayson Tatum greets Celtics back in New York with season on the line: ‘Bigger than basketball now’
NY Post
The Celtics put basketball to the side. For a brief period of time, all they were concerned with was Jayson Tatum as a human.
After rupturing his Achilles tendon in Game 4, Jayson Tatum had his surgery in New York City and has since stayed in the city.
After their Game 5 win over the Knicks staved off elimination and sent the series back to Madison Square Garden, the Celtics saw Tatum in person – Thursday night at the team hotel – for the first time since the injury.
“We didn’t talk about basketball at all,” Payton Pritchard said Friday morning after the Celtics’ shootaround ahead of Game 6. “It’s bigger than basketball now. It’s just seeing how he is as a person, how he’s dealing with stuff. The basketball side, we’ll handle that. Just wanted to check in as a friend.”
The injury is likely to sideline Tatum for all of next season.
“It was really good seeing him,” Pritchard added. “Seemed like he was in really good spirits. Obviously, he’s probably about to be stir crazy for a while now. When you see one of your brothers, your teammates go through a situation like that, you just want to be there to comfort and [do] anything he needs.”
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