{"id":436978,"date":"2023-05-30T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436978"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:39:55","slug":"jayson-tatum-ankle-injury-stop-me","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jayson-tatum-ankle-injury-stop-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum: Ankle injury stop me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayson Tatum got injured at the worst time possible \u2013 on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> play in the deciding Game 7 against Miami Heat. As a result, Boston Celtics were eliminated from the Eastern Conference finals and will not play at the NBA finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jayson Tatum limps off the podium after the Celtics Game 7 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum played 42 minutes after spraining his ankle on the first play of the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1E2oIhSK3g\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1E2oIhSK3g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1663396708708139008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just depressing that I was &#8230; a shell of myself,&#8221; the Boston superstar share after he was on the court 42 minutes and scored only 14 points on 5-for-13 shooting in the defeat, which finished their season. They also failed to be the 1<sup>st<\/sup> franchise in NBA history to win a series in which the opponent led 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was hard to move. Just awful, it happened in the first seconds of the match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want nobody to feel bad for me. Unfortunately, injuries are apart of this game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum on his ankle injury during the first play of Game 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a5NBVuN2Mm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/a5NBVuN2Mm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1663394417804464130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2023<\/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>Jayson Tatum got injured at the worst time possible \u2013 on the 1st play in the deciding Game 7 against Miami Heat. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":431796,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16942,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18064,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Celtics superstar got injured on the 1st play.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436978"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436978"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}