How Paul Pierce felt when he injured Jayson Tatum's game 4

The Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce had a hard time watching Jayson broken in real time in real time against the New York Knicks.

Tatum was on the Madison Square Garden in the process of a dominant game 4 and scored 42 points before the 27-year-old's biggest nightmare was brought to life. Tatum met the deck in the fourth quarter with a non -contact violation and was supported by the square before he was picked up in the player's tunnel. All on Boston's sidelines, both for the rest of the game and afterwards in the changing room, became dead.

Pierce, who watched from home, was also speechless.

“Man, my first reaction was that the air came out of my house. It looked as if the air had come out of the building,” said Pierce on Tuesday on the “Speaking” of FS1. “It really looked like you were looking on your face – you could see when a player was injured and it is bad. And that is the expression I saw on his face, and then I thought exactly: 'Man, that's not good.' Because he put together a game that we would talk about for a long time.

Tatum was a one-man army that the team led to the persecution of a 2-2 series. He found his 3-point touch and, with Knicks star Jalen Brunson, went a mano in a pressure-filled environment. The problem was that Tatum was all alone. The co-star Jaylen Brown sat on the bench with five fouls. Kristapaps Porzingis was reduced to a 7-foot liability due to its illness, and the copy and paste schedule of the Ride or dying team was not a favor of Boston at the end of the three.

The Celtics have (43-31), in which color (64-32) exceeded and completely exaggerated when New York's Tom Thibodeau continues to pull the carpet under Bostons Joe Mazzulla from Boston. But through everything, Tatum left everything for the reigning champs on the line and paid the ultimate price.

While everyone was waiting for an update via Tatum, Pierce had an idea of ​​which news would reveal the six-time severity of the All-Star injury to the Serine on Tuesday evening.

“When I saw him going out without putting pressure on it, he was worn and then he got the wheelchair. I knew it was bad,” said Pierce. “And I just feel bad for Jayson and the Boston Celtics because they hate losing their star, and they hate losing them to an injury that we heard today.

The Celtics announced that Tatum was subjected to a successful operation in New York, and it is expected to recover completely. How this recovery will look like a schedule is unknown. In his eight seasons in the NBA, Tatum has not suffered any violation of this severity, and what it will also mean for the future of the team is a survey when the off -season approaches.

Tatum achieved an average of 26.8 points with 8.7 rebounds and six templates in 72 appearances last season. It is a campaign that corresponded to a bitter sweet finish when Tatum Celtics Legends Larry Bird and John Havlicek took up in franchise history for most 40-point playoff games (5).