In his press conference Tatum said:

“I thought about it. I’m not like thrilled to go back and play there. Last time I played there, obviously, it was a traumatic experience for me. Obviously, I knew, at some point, I would have to get over that hurdle and play there again, so it’s going to have to be this Thursday.”

PassMeTheBackwood | Knicks

283 | 9 hours ago

Finally, someone not excited to drop their career high in MSG.

(He will anyway)

Your__Pal

74 | 8 hours ago

Today? Probably not. Next month? Sure.

februarycream | Knicks

40 | 8 hours ago

Let it be tonight rather than next month lmao

Daconvix | Knicks

16 | 8 hours ago

Tomorrow night*

yanat1228 | Knicks

5 | 5 hours ago

Nah let it be tonight

wolf_cola_enjoyer | Lakers

29 | 8 hours ago

Next Game:

Tatum after dropping 52 points vs NY Knicks: “Yeah i’m f**king back.”

TrueReigns

10 | 5 hours ago

His career high is 60, so he’d actually drop 61

blueneuronDOTnet | Celtics

3 | 3 hours ago

You’re thinking of his game 7 scoring record. His regular season scoring record is 60. Jayson Tatum is a beast.

JoJonesy | Celtics

119 | 8 hours ago

well we’re probably seeing them in the playoffs so probably good to get over that now

Karlomah11

13 | 6 hours ago

Its depends, if the cavs can best the hawks they could likley finish above the NYK

Pickleskennedy1

13 | 6 hours ago

I don’t think the Cavs want to. Hawks are a tough first round matchup but the 4 seed is definitely their best chance to make the conference finals. I think that was true even before Cade’s injury when you look at how they match up

Karlomah11

2 | 3 hours ago

Yes, but do the knicks want to go against the celtics? I know they beat them last year, but still…

moby323 | 76ers

12 | 8 hours ago

Great point

ExpressFan7426 | Thunder

79 | 6 hours ago

Yk I never really gave it too much thought on how nba players feel going to the stage where they had a serious injury.

moby323 | 76ers

23 | 6 hours ago

Yeah it’s one of the thing that bothers me when people hate on Embiid when he gets injured. If you go back and watch them you can see when they happen how absolutely crushed and heartbroken he is. He hates not being able to play much more than any fan does.

hauskeeper | Celtics

4 | 3 hours ago

It’s really hard to watch the times when Embiid has tried to play through injuries. Guys should be able to heal up without people giving them shit.

sorendiz | HOU

23 | 5 hours ago

Genuinely I cannot imagine what was going through Shaun Livingston’s head right before his first game back at Staples Center after his knee got fucking annihilated. I don’t even want to know, honestly

Responsible-Bass4020 | Thunder

10 | 4 hours ago

Hali didn’t travel to OKC with the Pacers this season because of it. Said he wanted to be playing before he went back

Single_Rush3413 | Celtics

31 | 8 hours ago

Leave it to JB to do the heavy lifting on offense. Just need Tatum to sweep the rebounds alongside Queta and be a three-level facilitator and we good 👍🏼

moby323 | 76ers

9 | 8 hours ago

JB clhas everyone’s back, that could be a series of like Payton Manning-style funny commercials where JB always has someone’s back.

Guy caught in a riptide? JB is there and has your back. Lost on a hike? JB is there and has your back. Delivering twins and the epidural doesn’t work? JB pops up with scrubs on

deutschedontcha

14 | 6 hours ago

Inb4 Shaq or some other old head uses this quote to claim that today’s players wouldn’t survive in the 90s.

dracostark12 | Celtics

-9 | 5 hours ago

Tatums uncle is a good friend of Shaqs. He aint saying that you dumbo

gabdex | Raptors

2 | 2 hours ago

Genuinely appreciate the honesty. No way this is “just another game” hell no.

Ok_Shop7600 | Lakers

-5 | 6 hours ago

Didn’t some knick fans start victory lapping and cheering after he got injured? I’d being wanting to beat the shit out of them and Brunson the fuckin gummy bear

HokageEzio | Knicks

8 | 5 hours ago

On the street? Yeah.

In the arena? No, they were very polite to Tatum and there’s video of them clapping for him as he went into the tunnel.

tunaMaestro97 | NYK

3 | 4 hours ago

Fuck are you talking about lmao. Look at the knicks sub after that game, nothing but respect

BushyBrowz | Knicks

6 | 3 hours ago

He’s a Lakers fan, he’s just trying to start drama

HokageEzio | Knicks

4 | 3 hours ago

There’s video of people celebrating out on the street watching on big screens that were celebrating when it happened. It’s not untrue. But there’s also video of Brad Stevens walking Tatum through the tunnel and all the fans there were giving him his flowers.

To me the people who were right there and could have chirped at him directly mean more than people out on the street celebrating. Anybody can do or say anything when they’re not there in person. That was the issue when Toronto did it to KD, there were people in the arena cheering to the point that Raptors players had to tell their own crowd to chill out.

Minute_Elephant_3218

-13 | 6 hours ago

It’s not like it was the MSG court specifically that injured him

heresyforfunnprofit | Spurs

14 | 6 hours ago

I mean… it kinda was the floor that did it.

PleaseBanWidow | Warriors

-130 | 8 hours ago

“Traumatic” there’s wars going on Jayson

cricket9818 | Knicks

48 | 8 hours ago

Trauma is a subjective term based on the concept

An athlete who’s livelihood depends on athleticism and suffered a potentially career altering injury at that location ? Yes, def traumatic to go back

genevatakemehome

44 | 8 hours ago

But like it did hamper his career and availability to play, for quite a long period too. Thats like fair for him to say??

PrimeTimeInc | Hornets

32 | 8 hours ago

Nonono you don’t get it, every breath you take and thought you have must be political in nature. Shame on JT

genevatakemehome

5 | 6 hours ago

Silly JT thinking he has a right to be honest abt something he felt personally smh. There’s wars going on JT 🙄

SignificantScreen100 | Celtics

40 | 8 hours ago

What a stupid comment.

Nobody7713 | Raptors

39 | 8 hours ago

That doesn’t mean suffering a severe injury isn’t traumatic. Tearing an achilles like that is ridiculously painful, that causes trauma.

moby323 | 76ers

24 | 6 hours ago

Some kid is beaten and called a worthless piece of shit by their parents:

“Trauma!? Put on your big-boy pants and look at look at what’s going on in the middle-east!”

NuclearGhandi1 | Knicks

6 | 5 hours ago

Real. I know people that quit sports all together due to how bad they got injured

DaJuggerHobbit | Hawks

2 | 3 hours ago

When I wrestled in high school, we had a kid whose wall between his scrotum and the inside of his body got torn. One of his testicles moved from his scrotum into whatever is behind that wall.

He quit the team the next day and no one ever faulted him for it.

_NautyByNature | Celtics

32 | 8 hours ago

You actually trying to gatekeep trauma?

On a sub about basketball?

Seek professional help if you find this funny or appropriate in any manner.

PleaseBanWidow | Warriors

-59 | 8 hours ago

Of course the celtics flair

CarBallAlex | Celtics

33 | 7 hours ago

Cool, now respond the the Hornets, Knicks and Raptors flairs that think you’re a dumbass too

genevatakemehome

24 | 8 hours ago

Ofcourse? It’s a post about his team’s player what are you even on abt lmao

nonononono11111

18 | 8 hours ago

Laaaaaaaaaazy child

_NautyByNature | Celtics

2 | 6 hours ago

Elaborate, or are you just as lazy as you are ignorant?

actually-potato | Pistons

21 | 7 hours ago

I think it’s a good thing for Tatum to be open about how difficult the experience was. A lot of boys look up to him and he’s setting a good example about being emotionally honest.

Rich-Professional753

18 | 8 hours ago

You dont know the definition of trauma

sup3rdr01d | Celtics

16 | 7 hours ago

Yeah! Wars can cause death or devastating injury! Like a torn Achilles!

holyyguava | Hornets

9 | 7 hours ago

You’ve never played a competitive sport in your life, nor have you had a serious injury in your life and your comment tells us that.

LosAngeLukaGOAT | Cote D'Ivoire

9 | 7 hours ago

Can’t believe Tatum faked an injury so he wasn’t drafted to take part of the wars.

Fucking dumbass.

Jamstarr2024 | Knicks

6 | 7 hours ago

Oh honey.

sorendiz | HOU

5 | 5 hours ago

lads it’s a 4 week old account with comments hidden, this is definitely ragebait

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sorendiz | HOU

3 | 4 hours ago

you’re doing great buddy I believe in you

sssSnakebite | Celtics

3 | 4 hours ago

This is a real person behind a screen

Earthboundd | Raptors

-23 | 6 hours ago

so true. How are you getting downvoted for this lmfao

DaJuggerHobbit | Hawks

8 | 5 hours ago

Because it’s a stupid thing to say. By this logic, the only thing allowed to create trauma is whatever happens to be the absolute worst thing in the world at the time.

Two things can be traumatic in different ways and at different levels. It’s a pretty basic concept.

Earthboundd | Raptors

-4 | 2 hours ago

agree. jayson did not experience trauma here though.

DaJuggerHobbit | Hawks

2 | an hour ago

Yeah, not sure you get to be the judge of that. He suffered intense pain, was faced with the possibility of never being the player he was accustomed to ever again, was prevented from doing what he loves for almost a year… those can all leave scars. Just being confronted with his own fragility could be traumatic for someone accustomed to being one of the greatest athletes on the planet. I don’t think we get to define his experience.

coffeebeamed | Celtics

7 | 5 hours ago

beaten everyday at home in north america? tough shit there’s a war in the middle east

Earthboundd | Raptors

-5 | 2 hours ago

how is that the same thing? being beaten everyday is traumatic. getting injured as a millionaire nba champion is not. the point is jayson acting like he’s going to war too.

coffeebeamed | Celtics

4 | 2 hours ago

being bullied? tough shit there’s a war in the middle east

depressed? tough shit there’s a war in the middle east

threw out your back and you can’t move the entire day? tough shit there’s a war in the middle east

the point is it’s not an appropriate response in any scenario

Earthboundd | Raptors

-3 | an hour ago

cool man, disagree. jayson deserves to get clowned for this. nothing wrong with contrasting his ridiculousness.

coffeebeamed | Celtics

3 | an hour ago

you and the warriors dude are the only clowns here my brother

Earthboundd | Raptors

-2 | an hour ago

got em!

_NautyByNature | Celtics

1 | 29 minutes ago

At no point did he liken his experience to anything related to war? You’re straight up lying just trying to hate on the guy.

Once again, weird and sad.

Earthboundd | Raptors

1 | 26 minutes ago

nice flair

_NautyByNature | Celtics

1 | 24 minutes ago

Even your attempts at shade are lazy jfc you give Raps fans a bad rep.

_NautyByNature | Celtics

3 | 5 hours ago

Go on then and elaborate. How’s your stance make any sense? You’re invalidating one trauma trying to virtual signal about another, so what’s the actual stance here?

I’m sure it is going to be a doozy considering you don’t understand how it’s an unpopular stance.

Earthboundd | Raptors

-2 | 2 hours ago

jasyon did not experience trauma. simple as that.

_NautyByNature | Celtics

1 | 32 minutes ago

You are literally and metaphorically wrong.

Why are you trying to um ackshually someone else’s trauma?

It’s weird and sad.

Earthboundd | Raptors

1 | 27 minutes ago

please stop you’re traumatizing me.