Jayson Tatum played with fracture in left wrist last season

In a recent interview with Taylor Rooks of Bleacher Report, Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum said he played with a non-displaced fracture in his left wrist at the end of last season. Tatum said he injured the wrist with about two months to play in the regular season. The Boston star said he reinjured the wrist in the second round of the playoffs when he was fouled by Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks. Tatum said that reinjury occurred when he fell following a dunk that he found on by Antetokounmpo.
Source: RealGM

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Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
New: Jayson Tatum revealed Sunday to @Taylor Rooks he played the entire postseason with a fracture in his left wrist, downplaying its impact on his performance:
“If I’m going out there to play, nothing matters.” masslive.com/celtics/2022/0… – 10:57 PM Kurt Helin @basketballtalk
Jayson Tatum played end of season, playoffs with small wrist fracture nba.nbcsports.com/2022/08/21/jay… – 9:53 PM Sirius XM NBA @SiriusXMNBA
The CrawsOver Pro-Am in Seattle on Saturday featuring @LeBron James and Jayson Tatum was cut short due to condensation on the court.
@Amin Elhassan explains how Seattle made a statement to the NBA in pro basketball’s return to the Emerald City. pic.twitter.com/OIUoyQySjw – 5:00 PM Adam Himmelsbach @AdamHimmelsbach
New: -How Brad Stevens’ approach has differed from Danny Ainge’s
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-Tatum faces IT in Seattle
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bostonglobe.com/2022/08/21/spo… – 12:20 PM Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Don’t mind me. I’m just dreaming of the lineup combinations Ime Udoka can use when he has Tatum, Brown, Smart, Rob, Horford, Brogdon, Gallo, Grant and Pritchard all available. Big, small, perimeter-focused, interior-focused, offense-focus, defense-focused, etc. It’s all there. – 12:10 PM Cameron Tabatabaie @CTabatabaie
This was a wild pass from Tatum pic.twitter.com/pZQxiLJlLG – 10:24 AM Emiliano Carchia @Sportando
LeBron, Tatum pro-am Seattle game gets cut short
sportando.basketball/en/lebron-tatu… – 4:14 AM Tommy Beer @TommyBeer
Tatum oop to LeBron pic.twitter.com/Sz4gIppeL8 – 9:41 PM David Hardisty @clutchfans
This thing is star-studded. Tari Eason is playing. LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Dejounte Murray, Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren are there.
The live stream is going in @RocketsWatch. Come join us:
getplayback.com/room/rocketswa… – 9:05 PM Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar
LeBron, Tatum, Dejounte and Gordon on one team.
Rookies Chet and Banchero on the other team.
LeBron even creating super teams in a pro-am. Smh – 8:59 PM

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According to Tatum, no one but Celtics personnel were aware of the injury. He regularly wore a brace on the injured wrist, but never when the media was present. Tatum said he won’t use the injury as any sort of excuse because “if I’m going out there to play, nothing matters”. -via RealGM / August 21, 2022 “Those three, four days afterward, I was miserable,” Tatum admitted. “I really, really was. It took some time to kinda get out of that funk and just enjoy my life, enjoy being around my son and my family.” -via Clutch Points / August 21, 2022 “It’s just tough,” he continued. “Sometimes I come off as so laid back, I don’t know if people understand how much I invest into this game, how much I care, how hard I work. … But it was just so tough because I literally gave everything that I had. To feel like I ran out, that I didn’t have anything left to give, and we were so close. “I didn’t have an appetite. I didn’t want to talk to anybody. I didn’t want to go anywhere. I was just in my house for like thee, four days straight.” -via Clutch Points / August 21, 2022