NBA stars, athletes and celebrities react to Jayson Tatum's injury

Celtics

LeBron James, Julian Edelman and Patrick Mahomes were among those who reacted to Tatum's injury.

Jayson Tatum left the defeat on Monday against the Knicks with an apparently serious injury. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

The 2024-25 season in Boston Celtics is officially on the ropes after a defeat against the New York Knicks in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference on Monday.

But even if Boston was now involved in a 3-1 deficit, the majority of the focus on the Celtics on the health of Jayson Tatum was determined on Monday in the fourth quarter with a serious leg/ankle injury.

Tatum fell on the pitch in Madison Square Garden in clear pain after pressing his right foot from the hardwood to hit OG anunoby into a loose ball.

The 27-year-old star immediately hit the ground with an unacceptable injury, with Tatum not putting no weight on his right leg when he made the tunnel down.

The head coach of Celtics, Joe Mazzulla, had no official update to Tatum's status after the defeat of Boston against New York against Boston and found that Tatum will be subjected to an MRI on Tuesday.

While the nature of Tatum's injury or the severity was not given an official word, the sight of Tatum, who, after a non-contact game, took the back of his ankle, Celtics fans who fear what could be a long-term absence for the team's top player.

Since the Celtics and the rest of the sports world are waiting for news from Tatum, there was no lack of reactions from the NBA, the NFL and several other athletes and media experts.

This post is updated:

Lebron James

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Big Deice

– LeBron James (@kingjames) May 13, 2025

Isaiah Thomas

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Tatum

– Isaiah Thomas (@isaihahthomas) May 13, 2025

Grant Williams

Prayers for 0! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Too many have lost this year 🤕

– Grant Williams (@grant2will) May 13, 2025

Julian Edelman

Patrick Mahomes

Prayer man … .. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

– Patrick Mahomes II (@patrickmahomen) May 13, 2025

Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks PG

“Obviously they want to go out and compete, but when a player of his caliber goes down and he rolls in pain, you know that something is wrong. That's why I only gave my thoughts and prayers. They never want to see something like that.” https://t.co/qkvj7ae6x9

– Zack Cox (@ZM_COX) May 13, 2025

Karl-Anthony Towns, New York Knicks C/PF

Cities on Tatum: “I was with my calf in such a situation. When you saw, I just went up and obviously respected his space. I just put my head down and prayed to my mother, prayed to God to protect and comfort him whatever the injury may be. I hope it is low.”

– Bobby Manning (@Realbobmaning) May 13, 2025

Cities: “I pray for him. If you saw me on the pitch, I wanted to pray for him. It looked bad. Prayers for him and his family. They never want to see someone in the NBA. I hope it is something small and not a big one.”

– Bobby Manning (@Realbobmaning) May 13, 2025

Josh Hart, New York Knicks G.

Kendrick Perkins

🙏🏾 for Tatum

– Kendrick Perkins (@Kendrickperkins) May 13, 2025

Ben Stiller

Send all the good thoughts and a positive mood to the big ones @Jayatum0. 🙏🙏🙏

– Ben Stiller (@benstieller) May 13, 2025

Sean Grande & Cedric Maxwell

Skip Bayless, FS1

Jayson Tatum had played one of his best playoff games ever – 42 points. And that happened out of nowhere. So unfair. God bless him in his recovery.

– Skip Bayless (@Realskipbayless) May 13, 2025

Bill Simmons

“I really wanted to cancel that,” said Simmons at the beginning of the live podcast after the victory of the Knicks. “Tonight was not a good night for Celtics fans. Holy [expletive]. … “The worst scenario, this is an Achilles. The best scenario are torn ligaments in his ankle or something. Either way, for the series and God only knows how long it is.”

“The irony of this is that this was the best games of his career up to this point,” added Simmons later and noticed: “We will see what happens to Tatum, but this could fall as one of the darker Celtics days.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1M5KB5P4MW

Dave Portnoy

Enes Kanter

Slam magazine

Conor Ryan is an employee who reports the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox for Boston.com, a role that he has been holding since 2023.