{"id":495886,"date":"2025-10-09T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495886"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:38:16","slug":"celtic-fans-are-excited-as-tatum-starts-to-dunk-again-at-training","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtic-fans-are-excited-as-tatum-starts-to-dunk-again-at-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic fans are excited as Tatum starts to dunk again at training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than five months after tearing his Achilles, Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum appears to be making strong progress in his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time All-Star shared a video on social media Thursday showing him dunking a basketball. While the move wasn\u2019t explosive \u2014 Tatum jumped from a stationary position under the rim \u2014 it was still an encouraging sign for Celtics fans eager to see their franchise player back on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Achilles injuries typically require 10 to 12 months of recovery, meaning there\u2019s no guarantee that Tatum will return during the 2025\u201326 season. However, optimism around his rehabilitation remains high.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the video surfaced, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania said on The Pat McAfee Show that Tatum \u201chas a goal in mind that he wants to play this season,\u201d adding that the Celtics are \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about his chances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Must be the shoes \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SQsxrWDAkX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SQsxrWDAkX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jayson Tatum (@jaytatum0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaytatum0\/status\/1976359803707670872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tatum suffered the injury during Boston\u2019s second-round playoff loss to the New York Knicks earlier this year. Given his status as the cornerstone of the franchise, the Celtics will only clear him to play once they\u2019re certain there\u2019s no risk of aggravating the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than five months after tearing his Achilles, Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum appears to be making strong progress in his recovery. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495887,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16942,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18064,1067],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"He tore his Achilles five months ago, but is making serious progress in his recovery","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\/495886"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495895,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495886\/revisions\/495895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495886"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495886"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}