When will Jayson Tatum return from Achilles injuries? How NBA players in the relaxation did – NBC Boston

The long way to recover Jayson Tatum has already started.

The Boston Celtics star was operated on Tuesday to repair an Achilles tendon with broken law, which he had suffered against the New York Knicks on Monday.

The injury to Tatum is devastating on many levels and probably costs Celtics the chance to repeat themselves as a champions, 3: 1 in game 5 on Wednesday one and one of the best players in the NBA costs a full season of his prime (Tatum was March 27th).

But will Tatum miss the entire 2025-26 season? What is the precedent for NBA players who have suffered similar Achilles injuries, and how long did they take to recover?

Here is a look at remarkable NBA athletes that have dealt with Achilles injuries, how long it will fail and how her career can tell us after the injury about how Tatum can bounce back:

Klay Thompson

• Age if she hurt: 30
• Date of injury: November 19, 2020
• Return date: January 9, 2022

Thompson had already missed the 2019-20 season due to a torn ACL when he tore his Achilles shortly before the 2020-21 season. Thompson played relatively well on the route for the Warriors (20.4 points per game over 32 games) in 2022 and scored an average of 21.9 points per game in 2022-23, his highest brand since the 2016-17 season.

However, the sniper has not grown all-star game since he returned from an injury, and his field goal percentage and his 3-point percentage have both decreased under his previous injuries.

Kevin Durant

• Age if she hurt: 30
• Date of injury: June 10, 2019 (game 5 of the NBA Finals 2019)
• Return date: December 22, 2020

Durant missed the entire 2019-20 season before returning to Brooklyn Nets in December 2020 (the start of the season was delayed due to Covid.)

While Durant made three consecutive all-star teams after his injury and impressive counting statistics set up on average 26.9 points, 29.9 points and 29.1 points per game in 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 games in 55 games in each part of various seasons.

Demarcus cousins

• Age if she hurt: 27
• Date of injury: January 26, 2018
• Return date: January 18, 2019

Cousins ​​is the closest player at the age of Tatum on this list, but his career after the injury is not encouraging. The all-star Big Man was never the same after he had torn his Achilles and only played two more seasons in both campaigns, while in points and rebounds she achieved average individual custody. After his injury, he played in 89 NBA games.

It is worth noting that cousins ​​have dealt with Achilles problems in the past and are significantly larger than Tatum with 6-foot 10 and 270 pounds.

Kobe Bryant

• Age if she hurt: 34
• Date of injury: April 12, 2013
• Return date: December 8, 2013

Bryant had the fastest recovery time of a player on this list, but it is associated with a restriction: he only played six games in 2013-14 before it was closed for the rest of the season.

Bryant's Achilles injury signaled the beginning of the end for his NBA career. He performed in just 35 games in 2014-15 before suffering a shoulder injury at the end of the season and then defeated only one season with an average of 17.6 points per game in 2015-16.

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Wesley Matthews

• Age if she hurt: 28
• Date of injury: March 5, 2015
• Return date: October 28, 2015

Matthews is by no means a superstar, but his case offers a certain optimism for Tatum. Matthews only needed a recovery period before returning to the square, and while his value average decreased slightly in the next few years, he was relatively durable and after his injury in at least 63 games played five consecutive seasons.

Matthews played a total of nine NBA playing times after torn his Achilles and was 37 when he played his last game (with the Atlanta Hawks in 2024).

Dominique Wilkins

• Age if she hurt: 32
• Date of injury: January 28, 1992
• Return date: November 6, 1992

Wilkins was one of the first NBA superstars to break his Achilles, but he jumped back in a large way. After a little more than nine months of Rehabilitation, Wilkins returned one of the best seasons of his NBA career in 1992-93, which has an average of 29.9 points per game, while he took fifth place in the NBA MVP vote.

In 1993-94 Wilkins delivered another all-star campaign before it slowered in the mid-1930s and played with the Celtics, Spurs and Magic over a period of two years in overseas over a period of time.

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