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Celtics unveil Jayson Tatum injury plan after NBA Player of the Week win

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Coach Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics may have seen Jayson Tatum pop off and win NBA Player of the Week but they are still cautious with his injury.

Celtics unveil Jayson Tatum injury plan after NBA Player of the Week win originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Eagle-eyed fans of the Boston Celtics have noticed that Jayson Tatum has been playing a lot like his former self.

The idea that he had just suffered an Achilles injury less than 10 months before was starting to get buried too. He also ended up winning NBA Player of the Week which was a big eye-opener to most basketball faithful. Despite all of this success, Coach Joe Mazzulla posits that they still need to be cautious in letting Tatum play alongside Jaylen Brown and Derrick White.

Mazzulla, Celtics unveil Tatum injury plan as NBA Playoffs near The idea that Mazzulla is sticking to will be rather quite simple: Do not let Tatum accumulate too much fatigue. It is precisely playing too much and having way more explosive moments that his body can handle that leads to aggravating that Achilles injury. The Celtics trust that they should follow the same philosophy and their head coach used it as a way to explain why he would be sitting out against the Atlanta Hawks , via Jay King of The Athletic.

"That’s where I just trust the people that we have. I trust the sports science team. I trust Nick Sang, the guy that’s been with him for a lot of his career, but also during this journey and getting back.