Celtics' Jayson Tatum Out for Season with Achilles Injury

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00:00and Celtics dealt a crucial blow at the end of game number four now two days ago inside Madison

00:07Square Garden against the New York Knicks of course with just under three minutes remaining

00:12in regulation Jason Tatum looking to grab a loose ball on a bad pass has ruptured his Achilles the

00:20official word yesterday he already underwent surgery on a Tuesday afternoon to repair that

00:25ruptured Achilles in his right leg of course the RS it goes without saying Jason Tatum is out for

00:32the remainder of this postseason and will miss a fair share of time in 2025 26 as well for a guy

00:40that really in his eight seasons all in Boston has not missed a ton of action we'll discuss that

00:47but of course the RS bad news as expected unfortunately for Boston still with their

00:53season on the brink in a game five back in Beantown tonight yeah you know an organization like

00:59pushes all their chips into the middle now was our time to make championship runs we won it last year

01:03we got a high payroll this year will be a high payroll into the future one of the more devastating

01:06things to happen like you take a look at Damian Lillard is you have a high-priced veteran that is

01:11not going to participate on your team the next season it's almost a throwaway season you can deal with

01:16like a second year third year really talented player because he's not going to eat up any part

01:21of the salary cap you have guys that are making what 30 40 50 60 70 million dollars a year that

01:26won't step out there on the basketball court that is going to be a tough pill to swallow and understand

01:30this you have to give credit to the Boston ownership group like they're paying everybody max dollars to

01:36make sure they maximize exactly the amount of championships they feel like they can win

01:40grabbing one last year and it looks like one is possibly all they're going to get and now the

01:44whispers that they like to say that that roster is going to change next year which means do we have to

01:49get rid of a high-priced veteran so we can trade that off to get two more veterans back that might

01:53be not as good but at least to have a semblance of a team as you wait for Jason Tatum to do his

01:58rehab and come back the following season it's just a tough blow overall for the Celtics and their fans

02:02and the season isn't even like oh tour the Achilles we lost to the Knicks it's over like no you still

02:07got a game left in your building here to say for sure all right we know what the end game is going to be

02:12we're not winning this year and oh boy those doldrums that should happen tonight in the TD garden where

02:17the crowd energy will be there sort of but they know the real deal is they ain't winning anything now