[Highlight] Jayson Tatum gets introduced for the first time after rupturing his Achilles in May
I can’t believe this mfer is back already. This is shocking
Was wondering how this would look since it was loke the fastest surgery ever too happened to be in the city as the doctor he wanted to do it be there that night to perform surgery only hours after it happened
Getting surgery that fast probably saved months on the timeline, timing couldn’t have been better. 🏀
And him getting the surgery so fast also probably meant there was no swelling which is another positive.
Muscle atrophy kicks in after like 2-3 weeks too.
People always talk about the injury being tough to deal with, but the down time has such a big impact on professional athletes.
They don’t just have to overcome the injury, they have to overcome the months they spent out of action and the way it fucks with their bodies.
Forget the achilles injury, sit a healthy player for 6-10 months and they would have to go through a long process to get back into playing shape.
Tatum was out of surgery and in the rehab pool while most guys would still be waiting for their surgery.
How does that work? I figured torn was torn, what changes when the surgery is faster?
My understanding from google is you usually have to wait to do the surgery until there’s very little swelling, but doing it before his Achilles got the opportunity to swell skipped that waiting period.
From my understanding using chatgpt, I am now on my way to Bakersfield to monitor electrical frequencies with reynolds wrap covering my otherwise naked body
My god, these models just keep getting better.
The Achilles tendon is like a thick rubber band. When it snaps, the two pieces of it are just hanging loose, and the more you move around, the more they pull apart. The body then adapts with a bunch of scar tissue that tries to “reconnect” the tendon to itself, which is poison to the recovery. By Tatum having the surgery just 11 hours after the injury, and not having to travel at all (he hurt it in New York City, home of the top Achilles surgeon in the country just 3 miles away from Madison Square Garden), he basically didn’t move his leg much at all, meaning that there was almost no scar tissue. Supposedly this takes weeks to months off of the rehab time.
Ain’t no supposedly. We watched that mf play 30 min last night and hoop
Thanks for the explanation. Wasn’t aware timing of the surgery mattered so much.
Are you drunk lol
I think they mean that normally bc of how that area swells you usually have to wait until the swelling goes down before u can have surgery vs getting it immediately & it swelling after the work has been done.
Bro take a minute to think about normal swelling and the time between injury and surgery, so hasty to judge
I think cause it was a weird run on sentence.
Imagine you’re that surgeon, there in MSG, you see the injury happen and as they’re carrying him out you text your assistant to cancel your appointments tomorrow. Five minutes later you’re getting a phone call from an unknown number
Well they’re surgeons - mfers are always locked in god bless em
haven’t had a nap in years, hopped up on caffeine, literal human life on the line and these guys just stick to the plan and get it done time after time.
Doctors (and teachers) are straight marvels (for most part)
Teachers… reminded me of that video earlier today, I think it was on Reddit? About teachers quitting their jobs. I have a friend who’s a teacher and you can see life slowly drain out of her during the course of the year. Bubbliest kindest person over summer, dead inside by February
Didn’t come to this post for this, but I’m a teacher retiring at 57 next year because I can’t do it anymore. Love teaching. Really enjoy working with teens, 95% of them are a joy. Cant deal with crap admin all the way up and down the chain, or politicians who don’t support public school. My district is losing 10% of staff at the end of this year.
But yeah, surgeons are indeed a special breed. Wife had surgery scheduled for that day Boston got two feet of snow. Called brighams to make sure they didn’t want to reschedule. “The surgeons are here every day regardless of the weather”.
You don’t have to imagine. The surgeon is interviewed in JTs YouTube series
It’s not necessarily the timing. Apparently it’s more like the technique for the repair and where the rupture happened along the tendon. People forget that Wes Matthews came back 9 months after an achilles tear too.
KDs repair and recovery he took longer but look at him now
And then there’s people like Demarcus Cousins where it totally breaks their careers.
Damn Boogie was so fun to watch.
It’s much harder to recover when you’re 7’ 280 lbs
He had surgery the next day. Doc had an opening in the afternoon. It was lucky but get the story straight.
You mad bro lol he got it done in less than a day.
? There’s a YouTube video describing the whole thing
I remeber going to bed and waking up and his surgery was already complete.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TqOetWDpoc4?si=lQzpdb3825SvWykH
Idk what to tell you. Your memory is wrong.
https://youtu.be/_n1Cunz94cY?si=n5TRiMnQMAdZ7Zbu
So according to the math 17hours he got it at 3pm tore happened like at 945pm i dont see the big issue here still less than a day lol.
Imagine doc was not on call that night and was wasted at some bougie bar and missed his white whale of a case lol
Highly unlikely. I believe this same surgeon is the go-to for athletes. I think he did KD’s surgery and several other high profile players. He’s probably on high alert during the playoffs.
I mean I work with a group of neurointerventionalists who are only 3 deep and service an entire large city singlehandedly. The resources are not infinite, and while I said what I said in jest it’s not an impossibility….
He had surgery the next day. There’s videos out on YouTube about it…
Brother this sentence is atrocious
In 2032 someone will tear their achilles tendon 4 minutes in and be back by the end of the third quarter.
Nano machine healing gonna go stupid
Senator Armstrong would average 100ppg
Every injury will be Paul Pierce wheelchair game-esque
Tore my ACL I’m planning on trying to dunk next week AMA
don’t have any questions, but if you’re being for real, that’s dope and good luck. be smart and have fun.
The first part is fr the latter part isn’t but ty homie
How active were you prior to the tear?
Been doing distance running for years. One bad trip during a run on a street you’ve hit hundreds of times though and boom you’re down.
So true. What was your weekly mileage like? Been running for years and for me anything over 50 miles/week is just asking for my knee cap to forget which side of the leg its supposed to be on.
I was in the mid 30s or so. I’m around intermediate in most running plans having only a couple of marathons under my belt.
how long did it take before you were back into shape to trying to compete again. I assume therapy turned into training harder and harder to the points is like night and day
Hey hey my comment about dunking was a joke but I am getting my ACL repaired.
I didn’t play basketball for a well over a year after tearing it and but I returned it felt great. For running I was back within a year.
Shout to r/ACL!!
Patrick Mahomes is making it back week 1
I know hes a big rival, but I never had any hate for him. Glad he’s healthy.
I know he’s a big rival, and I have always had plenty of hate for him. Glad he’s healthy.
I know he’s a big rival, and I have always had plenty of hate for him. I hate that I’m glad he’s healthy.
I know he’s a big rival, and I have always had plenty of hate for him.
I know I have hate for him, but I’m glad he’s a big rival.
I hate that he’s a big healthy I hope he rivals soon
I hate him
Hated rivalry
Hate
Heat
Rival to who? 😂
He got a lot of flack for being a cornball, but he genuinely seems like an overall amazing person
You know he’s a good guy because the worst thing people can say about him is that he’s a cornball
I’ll never understand people hating on that lol. There’s so many genuine pieces of shit in the league, but people will overlook that with no problem. But being a bit goofy? Straight to jail lmao
He’s not even goofy, just a very mild regular personality with great intentions
There’s an entire subset of humanity that thinks being “cringe” is the most unforgivable thing ever so the irrational Tatum hate clears
This tends to apply to Black athletes that sports bros want to act a certain way so they can then criticize them for that.
When they have nothing real to criticize them for they just call them corny
Yeah, it definitely applies more to black athletes unfortunately. Shows that even though the world has made a lot of progress, there’s still more to make…
The Thunder deal with it too. Chet is constantly called corny, and I have to think it’s because he’s black.
That’s only because they think the dude is trying to act black.
God forbid a white boi gets down with some ox tail!!
Hell they drove up the damn price !!!
Travelled with the team all year and came to almost every game while he was out injured. We’ve seen other stars stay home or only attend select games.
We found out recently he was visiting sick kids at the game too.
He’s one of the most humble athletes in the game imo.
Look what they did to my boy. gif
Tatum on the hardwood makes my woodhard
Bars
Some just call it the wood
Back in the Garden, lights bright, glowin,
Jayson Tatum cookin’, whole arena knowin.
Rockin the green for the C’s, the crowd leans,
Cross, step-back, silky smooth, swishes the three.
Cross on the wing, fadeaway, ice-cold card,
Whole city chants while he glides through the yard.
Buckets so clean, hear the whole bar applaud,
Tatum on the hardwood makes my woodhard.
Fourth quarter hero, calm while the clock ticks,
Logo threes droppin’, heartbreak for the opps quick.
Garden goin’ crazy every time he leaves his mark,
JT back home, turnin’ Boston to a spark.
Master Po is that you
I’m wishing you Celtics a win tonight, and hopefully a couple more in your future 🙏🏾 🙌🏿 can’t wait for Haliburton to have his moment too.
just a couple though
Let’s not get greedy
My birthday present
Happy Birthday
happy birthday playa hope its a good one
Happy bday!!
tears in my eyes bro
i can only imagine. i’m a warriors fan and remember klay’s return so clearly. insane moment. the celtics and hornets have become my favorite teams in the east this year just because of how cool it would be to see them go on a run in the playoffs. good luck to your squad.
You and I brother
This shit means something to me, man
Love it. Great game by him too. Respect 🫡
Here, I was looking forward to the Celtics maybe having a down year. Not only did that not happen, but this mfer is back.
Celtics hate aside, im happy for him. For all the shit he gets, seem like a good dude. Im rooting for him. Not like my sixers have a chance at anything anyway
The Celtics might fucking win it all now that we’re here at this point.
He’s definitely (from everything we know publicly) a good dude. But even as a Boston fan, he’s kinda insufferable at times
Fuck outta here
☝️not a Boston fan
Fuck off.
Made it back before Kyrie even though he ruptured his Achilles 2 months AFTER Kyrie tore his ACL. Built different
Also happened to be in the city where the doctor they wanted if it happened so he got surgery just hours after it happened.
Tatum is also younger than kyrie with a smaller injury history and on a team that is actually in a position to try and push for a finals run. There is just zero incentive for the mavs to let kyrie come back this season. In the worst case, kyrie would win them a few extra games, leading to worse lotterie odds and could reinjure himself if he is rushed. Dallas focus should be to make sure that he is as healthy as he can be at the start of next season to be the veteran leader for a young team with flagg and a top prospect trying to make a push for the playoffs.
You can hop on a private jet. I don’t think distance was necessarily the issue. He’s also older.
I see this a lot and just don’t understand. Yes it was done right away, but like he did it a few days before most. If that. Players who clearly have major tears do not just sit around and wait for the surgery. Tatum doing it almost within 12 hours instead of within a week. Like that didn’t do much to allow him to come back early lol
The biggest thing is he’s not listening to anyone else and rushing himself back. That’s all it is. I wish him the best like all players; but if he reinjures it all hell will rain down on the organization for not making him wait the full year.
Basically Tatum is risking a ton to look good.
also 7 years younger but i did think kyrie would be out for like 10 months and be back around all star break, while tatum would sit out like Hali, but the opposite has happened
FWIW I think Kyrie’s been ready to return to action (he’s been working out pregame for months now) but it’s no incentive for him to return for the Mavericks this season.
Hope Jayson Tatum has a great game tonight. We all love watching him play. 🏀🔥
I hate that this guy is a damn Celtic but I’m glad he’s healthy and hope he kicks ass the rest of the season
Yeah, that about sums it up perfectly
He’s baaaaack
Literally unbelievable. That’s my dude.
Damn I thought he was gonna come off the bench and we’d see a huge standing ovation. Not as hype with the crowd all dark and the announcer yelling
Modern Medicine is crazy man!!
Anything is possible
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Like tom haverford said “anything is possibllllllle”
Welcome back Tatum
Sam Cassell looking fly as hell in those glasses
chills
Medical treatment has to be getting even better because coming back from this type of injury is insane
I’m gonna get to see this guy play on Sunday, I’m quite excited.
Win or lose, it’s always a privilege to see live sports with my dad, and just as a fan of the sport in general as well, I love seeing players of his skill play against us.
The NBA is objectively better with the best players playing.
Even if you’re not a Celtics fan, this is a good day for basketball.
I’m kind of terrified that he’s back so soon. 🙏
Same
This put the biggest smile on my face. Welcome back, champ.
Haven’t heard of a recovery this quick since Tony Liberatore only needing 4 months for an ACL in 1998.
Modern medicine is amazing
Hell yeah man
Dude looks huge for a 19 year old
It’s so unreal but you love to see it
Tatum 👑
I got nervous when he jumped during introductions, the same way I get nervous when one of my kids has climbed up on the countertop to reach a top shelf.
good for him man
Welcome back
What an incredible season for the Celtics. I can’t be the only one that thought they’d punt the season after losing 3 of their starting 5. Instead they’re second in the East and just got their star player back less than a year after a devastating injury.
Can’t wait for the playoffs to start, I think this is going to be a good year.
My glorious king is back. 🥹💚
So happy to see him back. I couldnt care less that hes corny, been a fan of his game for a long time
Boston as a franchise…if Luka was theirs from the beginning, the would not trade him. Together with the fans seem so loyal.
Crazy how fast he recovered. Welcome back
WE DID IT!!!
Not even a year for recovery?? Seems kind of wild
The Password has come back to realize it’s someone else’s team now.
I forgot where he played college ball at but the moment they showed that dumb montage of his recovery I knew Duke immediately. Great that he’s back but they out there acting like he had his entire leg sewn back on.
Injured guy comes back. Wow