{"id":232016,"date":"2026-03-07T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/celtics-dealt-tough-injury-blow-in-jayson-tatums-season-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:15:49","slug":"celtics-dealt-tough-injury-blow-in-jayson-tatums-season-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/celtics-dealt-tough-injury-blow-in-jayson-tatums-season-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics dealt tough injury blow in Jayson Tatum&#8217;s season debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/boston_celtics\/63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> got one All-Star back on Friday but lost another for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum made his triumphant return Friday and looked fantastic in a 120-100 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/dallas_mavericks\/77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> at TD Garden in Boston, Mass. After <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/jayson-tatum-celtics-botches-dunk-torn-achilles-return\/744465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shaking off a botched dunk<\/a>, Tatum looked like his old self for most of the second half and finished the game without any issues.<\/p>\n<p>The same could not be said for Nikola Vucevic. The Montenegrin big man got hurt while fighting for post position and left the game after playing less than two minutes in the first quarter. He was seen grabbing at his hand and immediately asked to be subbed out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported on Vucevic\u2019s injury status shortly after, indicating that the Celtics center had fractured his ring finger. Vucevic is set to undergo surgery on Saturday, which would reportedly sideline him for approximately a month.<\/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\/celtics_dealt_tough_injury_blow_in_jayson_tatums_season_debut\/s1_127_43561645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics got one All-Star back on Friday but lost another for an extended period. Tatum made his triumphant return Friday and looked fantastic in a 120-100 win over the Dallas Mavericks at TD Garden in Boston, Mass. After shaking off a botched dunk, Tatum looked like his old self for most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232017,"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-232016","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\/232016","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=232016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}