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[DefenseWinsChamps]

Jaylen wins Eastern Conference Player of the Week

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Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray and Boston Celtics forward-guard Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 7 of the 2025-26 season (Dec. 1-7).

Well-deserved. He is playing like a top 10 player in the league right now.

[Phantom255x]

Tatum just posted a "soon" message on his IG story. Again, unless he suffers any obvious setbacks I can't see how he doesn't come back this season. I don't even think Stevens and ownership can stop him.

[Neurotic Guy]

Jaylen wins Eastern Conference Player of the Week

NBA Communications

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Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray and Boston Celtics forward-guard Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 7 of the 2025-26 season (Dec. 1-7).

Well-deserved. He is playing like a top 10 player in the league right now.

He is. Glad to hear the acknowledgment!

[slamtheking]

Jaylen wins Eastern Conference Player of the Week

NBA Communications

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Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray and Boston Celtics forward-guard Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 7 of the 2025-26 season (Dec. 1-7).

Well-deserved. He is playing like a top 10 player in the league right now.

He is. Glad to hear the acknowledgment!

now if only the refs would give him a top-10-player whistle

[SparzWizard]

Tatum just posted a "soon" message on his IG story. Again, unless he suffers any obvious setbacks I can't see how he doesn't come back this season. I don't even think Stevens and ownership can stop him.

I saw a fake news on Facebook the other day imitating Shams confirming that Tatum will return on December 15 against the Pistons 😂

But in all honesty, I think he's coming back by mid-March. It'll be that 10-12 month mark of his injury. Ofc there's still a lot of games left to play so we'll also see how well the C's progress.

[Redz]

Jaylen wins Eastern Conference Player of the Week

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Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray and Boston Celtics forward-guard Jaylen Brown have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 7 of the 2025-26 season (Dec. 1-7).

Walsh was robbed!

JB is rolling.  So fun to see.

[Phantom255x]

Tatum just posted a "soon" message on his IG story. Again, unless he suffers any obvious setbacks I can't see how he doesn't come back this season. I don't even think Stevens and ownership can stop him.

I saw a fake news on Facebook the other day imitating Shams confirming that Tatum will return on December 15 against the Pistons 😂

But in all honesty, I think he's coming back by mid-March. It'll be that 10-12 month mark of his injury. Ofc there's still a lot of games left to play so we'll also see how well the C's progress.

Yeah March is very likely

[Donoghus]

Tatum just posted a "soon" message on his IG story. Again, unless he suffers any obvious setbacks I can't see how he doesn't come back this season. I don't even think Stevens and ownership can stop him.

I saw a fake news on Facebook the other day imitating Shams confirming that Tatum will return on December 15 against the Pistons 😂

But in all honesty, I think he's coming back by mid-March. It'll be that 10-12 month mark of his injury. Ofc there's still a lot of games left to play so we'll also see how well the C's progress.

Yeah March is very likely

If true,  they have a stretch of 5 out of 6 games at home in mid to late March.  Phoenix, Golden State, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta are all home games.

I seem to recall him mentioning that he wanted his return to be at the Garden.

[Phantom255x]

Tatum just posted a "soon" message on his IG story. Again, unless he suffers any obvious setbacks I can't see how he doesn't come back this season. I don't even think Stevens and ownership can stop him.

I saw a fake news on Facebook the other day imitating Shams confirming that Tatum will return on December 15 against the Pistons 😂

But in all honesty, I think he's coming back by mid-March. It'll be that 10-12 month mark of his injury. Ofc there's still a lot of games left to play so we'll also see how well the C's progress.

Yeah March is very likely

If true,  they have a stretch of 5 out of 6 games at home in mid to late March.  Phoenix, Golden State, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta are all home games.

I seem to recall him mentioning that he wanted his return to be at the Garden.

Yeah, and he seemed to also imply he wanted it to be around his birthday. It's March 3. C's play the Hornets at home on March 4 

[keevsnick]

If I had to guess on a Tatum return date it would be somewhere between February 27th (the Celtics first home game after the all-star break) and March 14th (almost exactly 10 months after the surgery, but still 1 month before end of regular season).

I don't see any way he's back before the all-star break just for cautionary reasons (the all-star break is the 9-month mark) but at the same time if he's not back by mid-march or so you start running out of time to get him integrated before the playoffs. I'd also expect he's on a minutes restriction and not playing back to backs when he returns.

On a related note I think if he does come back this season I'm going to spend every minute he's on the court in a state of dread that he'll trigger some sort of lower body injury from coming back too soon. So not looking forward to that part.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

Ummm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TuRTylInI

[Neurotic Guy]

Ummm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TuRTylInI

Mid-December he looks like this.  Of course - watching his feet, lateral movement, jumping.  Seems hard to believe he won?t be itching to get in games before March.  Who is ?defending? him in the video?  Wonder if Joe is participating in any of JTs sessions.

[Donoghus]

Ummm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TuRTylInI

He looks good but I'd stay the course with the recovery here.  We're still months away from when recovery should be plus the wear & tear of real game speed is a whole other animal.

But this is extremely promising.  The fluidity is still there and he's looking in great physical shape.  He's been staying on top of that.

[Donoghus]

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Ron Harper Jr. is BALLIN up in Portland:

28 PTS | 3 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL
29 PTS | 6 REB | 3 AST | 2 STL
15 PTS  | 12 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL
31 PTS  | 5 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL
46 PTS | 7 REB | 8 AST | 1 BLK
26 PTS | 5 REB | 6 AST | 3 STL

[slamtheking]

Boston Celtics
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Ron Harper Jr. is BALLIN up in Portland:

28 PTS | 3 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL
29 PTS | 6 REB | 3 AST | 2 STL
15 PTS  | 12 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL
31 PTS  | 5 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL
46 PTS | 7 REB | 8 AST | 1 BLK
26 PTS | 5 REB | 6 AST | 3 STL

that's lovely and all but JD Davison also was BALLIN in Portland and he couldn't make the roster.  Too early to get excited about this kid