Overview
- Tatum has missed every game of the 2025–26 season while rehabbing the Achilles tear suffered in last spring’s first round.
- New video from Friday showed Tatum doing a light on-court session in Indiana with Brad Stevens participating in the workout.
- The Celtics have not declared a season-long shutdown, and reporting continues to describe his recovery progress as encouraging.
- Stevens detailed required benchmarks that include strength targets followed by staged, scripted work up to full 5-on-5 and unscripted play before reconditioning to real minutes.
- Possible return windows such as February, March or the playoffs remain speculative, as Boston sits 19–11 and third in the East without him.