{"id":17474,"date":"2024-12-15T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=17474"},"modified":"2024-12-15T00:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T00:29:29","slug":"celtics-joe-mazzulla-provides-update-on-troubling-jayson-tatum-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=17474","title":{"rendered":"Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla Provides Update on Troubling Jayson Tatum Knee Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boston’s head coach has revealed the latest on his team’s best player.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The reigning champion Boston Celtics have been in fine form while defending their champion thus far this season. The club has gotten off to a fast 20-5 start, which would puts the Celtics on track for a 66-16 record. Last year, en route to a record 18th NBA title, Boston went 64-18.<\/p>\n

But Boston’s best player, five-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA Team power forward Jayson Tatum, is grappling with an ominous injury.<\/p>\n

Just prior to the start of Boston’s eventual 123-99 blowout decimation of the Detroit Pistons, the 6-foot-8 former Duke Blue Devil was a late scratch with what was called a right patella tendinopathy.<\/p>\n

Ahead of that clash, third-year Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla appeared to downplay the severity of the soft tissue injury, as Noa Dalzell of CLNS and SB Nation detailed.<\/p>\n

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Joe Mazzulla with an update on Jayson Tatum\u2019s knee: <\/p>\n

\u201cTendinopathy comes and goes. It\u2019s nothing serious.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/bXXFoftx5j<\/a><\/p>\n

— Noa Dalzell \ud83c\udfc0 (@NoaDalzell) December 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n