{"id":230361,"date":"2026-02-25T22:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/jayson-tatum-takes-significant-step-toward-returning\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:17:39","slug":"jayson-tatum-takes-significant-step-toward-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/jayson-tatum-takes-significant-step-toward-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum takes significant step toward returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The chances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/boston_celtics\/63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> forward Jayson Tatum playing this season appear to be on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania revealed on \u201cNBA Today\u201d Wednesday that Tatum has been a \u201cfull go\u201d in five-on-five scrimmages as he continues to rehab from his torn Achilles. While Charania did not give any solid return date for Tatum, the implication is that he has a real chance to play soon.<\/p>\n<p>The buzz around Tatum has been positive for a while, even though the Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/jayson-tatum-celtics-joe-mazzulla-cryptic-response-practice\/742528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are being quite tight-lipped<\/a> about his status and progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This latest report will give Celtics fans even more encouragement that Tatum\u2019s return might be in the cards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/jayson_tatum_takes_significant_step_toward_returning\/s1_127_43518447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chances of Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum playing this season appear to be on the rise. ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania revealed on \u201cNBA Today\u201d Wednesday that Tatum has been a \u201cfull go\u201d in five-on-five scrimmages as he continues to rehab from his torn Achilles. While Charania did not give any solid return date for Tatum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}