{"id":509526,"date":"2026-03-05T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509526"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:50:39","slug":"celtics-superstar-tatum-expected-to-make-campaign-debut-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-superstar-tatum-expected-to-make-campaign-debut-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics\u2019 superstar Tatum expected to make campaign debut tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics leader Jayson Tatum is expected to make his 2025-26 NBA campaign debut vs. the Mavs tomorrow at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Jayson, whose return comes less than a year after tearing his ACL in Game 4 of the East Conference \u00bd finals vs. the Knicks, has been upgraded as ready to play, and the star is expected to inform Boston of his final choice ahead of tomorrow\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum has diligently been working on trying to return in the current campaign since he sustained the devastating injury vs. New York. Jayson underwent a procedure at the Hospital for Special Surgery by Dr. Martin O&#8217;Malley less than 24 hours after tearing his right Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics superstar, who turned 28 two days ago, is a 6-time All-Star, 5-time All-NBA selection \u2013 including 4 straight 1<sup>st<\/sup> teams from 2022-25 \u2013 and a 2-time Olympic gold medal winner. The potential for his return has been an ongoing storyline in the current campaign \u2013 1 that\u2019s only been heightened by the Celtics\u2019 success without him on the court since the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Jayson Tatum WILL PLAY this season and could make his debut on Friday against the Mavs, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Tatum suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon less than 10 months ago&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6jaI15sx6J\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6jaI15sx6J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2029618841433567281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2026<\/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>Boston Celtics leader Jayson Tatum is expected to make his 2025-26 NBA campaign debut vs. the Mavs tomorrow at TD Garden. Jayson, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16942],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18062,18064],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jayson is expected to return on Friday after his awful injury last year.","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\/509526"}],"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=509526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509527,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509526\/revisions\/509527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509526"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509526"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}