The Boston Celtics host the New York Knicks for Game 5 of their second round NBA Playoffs series on Wednesday, May 14.

“No NBA player since Jose Juan Barea in 2019 has returned sooner than 10½ months after an Achilles rupture, suggesting the Celtics should plan on Tatum missing the entire 2025-26 regular season,” Pelton wrote. “A postseason return is more realistic, but there's basically no precedent for that.”

Losing Game 4 against the New York Knicks was a big blow, but Jayson Tatum's scary injury only makes matters worse for the Boston Celtics.

Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum had surgery Tuesday to repair a ruptured right Achilles tendon that will sideline him for the remainder of the playoffs, the team announced. The Celtics announced the extent of Tatum’s injury and the surgery a day after the six-time All-Star went down in the Celtics’ 121-113 Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks,

Jalen Brunson had 39 points and 12 assists, and the New York Knicks moved a win away from their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years and pushed the defending champion Boston Celtics to the brink of elimination with a 121-113 victory Monday night in Game 4.

NBA playoffs have been full of many unexpected outcomes. Perhaps no outcome is more unexpected than the Boston Celtics being down 0-2 against the New Y

Few people have born witness to what went down in the old Boston Garden during the 1980s as Boston Celtics beat writer emeritus Bob Ryan has.

Paul Pierce walked 20 miles to the Fox Studios after the Celtics lost Game 2 of their NBA Playoffs series against the Knicks