Jayson Tatum injury creates discouraging effects on the future of Boston Celtics

New York – One of Jayson Tatum's greatest properties during his entire Celtics career was its durability. In the last five seasons he played through to every all-star in the NBA. The Iron MAN finally met in game 4 in game 4 in the middle of a 42-point performance on Monday evening in game 4 in Madison Square Garden. Tatum fell to the ground, while he dived on his right lower leg with a loose ball with an apparently non -contact injury. Joe Mazzulla said he would get an MRI on Tuesday after helping him in front of the square.

“I mean, of course that's our brother and you hate to see him down,” said Derrick White after the loss of 121-113 game 4 for the Celtics. “We only know the type he is, and it is difficult to see how it goes down. But at the moment it is quite low at the moment because of the game, and we only have one way to win game 5.”

The short -term effects are clear to the Celtics, who now have to win three games in a row to get out of the second round. The series moves back to Boston on Wednesday evening, and the very safe assumption is that Tatum is not available after a wheelchair has reached the changing room.

“I think everyone is concerned with Jayson,” said Jaylen Brown. “I am not sure how bad it is. It didn't look great. But I think everyone is somehow more busy. Obviously the loss is huge. But we have to prepare for game 5, so we take the night and gather tomorrow and put together a game and put together a game plan to keep this series alive.”

If it is a worst scenario for Tatum from a point of view of injuries (torn Achilles?), The effects on Boston would be immense if the all-star is expected to miss the most or the entire next season.

The Celtics already have 227 million US dollars of salary statements that have committed themselves to 11 players in the next season, which is a luxury tax bill of almost 280 million US dollars. These expenses of 507 million US dollars would have been the largest salary and tax expenses in NBA history by around 130 million US dollars. There have already been serious doubts in the league that Boston's property would be willing to pay for this type of money in a single season. The cost reduction was already expected to a certain extent this summer.

However, everything changes if Boston suddenly has no candidate what the hard reality for this team would be without Tatum next year. Suddenly the Celtics have a lot more incentives to reduce a lot of money, and the way to trades would not necessarily be easy if Kristaps Porzingis is confronted with persistent diseases in this post -season and the increasing age of Jrue Holiday and the CAP number of diseases. Here is a look at Boston's salary statement for the next year.

Jayson Tatum: 54.1 million US dollars

Jaylen Brown: 53.1 million US dollars

JRUE Holiday: 32.4 million US dollars

Kristapaps Porzingis: 30.7 million US dollars

Derrick White: 28.1 million US dollars

Sam Hauser: $ 10 million

Payton Pritchhard: 7.2 million US dollars

Baylor Scheierman: 2.6 million US dollars

Xavier Tillman: $ 2.5 million

Neemias Queta: 2.3 million US dollars

Jordan Walsh: $ 2.2 million (not guaranteed)

First round Draft selection: 2.5 million US dollars

Open squad x 2: ????

Free agents: Al Horford, Luke Kornet, Torrey Craig

In total: 227 million US dollars in salary statements for 11 players obliged

Luxury: $ 187.8 million

Second apron: 207.8 million US dollars

After the status of Tatum in summer to return to the second apron, a probability would have been a probability, according to the comments from WYC Grousbeck in March in March. If Tatum is likely to switch off a large part of the year with serious injury, a complete reset can come into play.

Boston has been a luxury tax team for three years (including this year) for three years, so that painful punishments for the tax of painful repeater will be brought into the game next year (Repeater Tax Kits if they have been in taxes three of the past four years). If Boston decides to transport large salary statements next year, you could decrease under the wheel ($ 187 million) and reset this watch for at least one year. This would help with the flexibility of the team across the board and perhaps better reposition them, in order to later recharge a healthy crime in this decade.

How exactly the Celtics would try to complete serious money (40 million US dollars) from the salary statement would not be easy from the point of view of the salary adjustment. This would also lead to very difficult decisions, since important players (JRUE Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis, Sam Hauser) will probably be all candidates to be transferred to the right deal for wage and assets and assets. Al Horford's future in Boston also becomes a question mark when the Celtics go down this street.

Ultimately, the Celtics front Office made a clever decision to lead an all-in increase in last season to a title and a competing squad in the past two years before Tatum suffered his injury in game 4.