Jayson Tatum mentioned he is feeling no stress to return from his proper Achilles tendon rupture earlier than he is totally prepared.
“No stress,” Tatum mentioned Monday at Boston Celtics’ media day. “No stress to return again any ahead of once I’m one hundred pc wholesome. No stress from [Celtics president of basketball operations] Brad [Stevens], [coach] Joe [Mazzulla], the staff, the group. A very powerful factor is that I am one hundred pc recovered and wholesome each time I do come again.”
Tatum is simply 140 days faraway from starting his put up surgical procedure rehab.
“Immediately is cool,” Tatum mentioned. “I feel tomorrow will likely be powerful with follow beginning out. I will not have the ability to be on the market.”
Tatum has resumed mild basketball exercises as a part of his six-day-a-week rehab.
“I am in a extremely great place. It’s going to be 5 months tomorrow,” Tatum mentioned. “It has been an extended journey. … For me there’s been brilliant spots. And getting again on the court docket, having the ability to take part in a basketball exercise was positively one of many extra brilliant spots of this journey. It simply actually felt actually good to be on the court docket, dribbling the basketball, going via a exercise. You simply really feel like a basketball participant once more.”
