Jayson Tatum explains injury scare after Celtics’ Game 1 win over Magic

Jayson Tatum avoided injury Sunday during his tumble on the TD Garden parquet The Celtics star landed on his wrist after a hard foul from Magic guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in Encounter of the teams first-round playoff series He remained down on the court for an extended period and was briefly examined on the Boston bench but he remained in the match which the Celtics went on to win - Tatum noted an X-ray on his wrist came back clean and good He downplayed the scare during his postgame news conference It s all right Tatum stated I just fell on it landed on it It was throbbing for a second then kind of went away Related Articles OBF With NBA playoffs here it s Face time for Jayson Tatum Caldwell-Pope who grabbed Tatum s right elbow while the latter was elevating for a dunk was assessed a Flagrant foul on the play Players from both teams exchanged words while Tatum was wincing on the floor Hard foul Celtics guard Jrue Holiday mentioned I mean playoff basketball Orlando is a seed that s gonna come out and fight and be physical Just a hard foul Tatum endured a rough shooting night -for- from the field -for- from -point range -for- from the foul line but was highly advancing on the glass leading all players with rebounds to go along with his points four assists one steal and one block The Celtics outscored the Magic by a game-best points during his minutes Obviously he perhaps didn t play the efficient offensive competition that he would have liked but I thought his poise you couldn t tell that Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla commented That never got in the way of his defense and his physicality and his rebounding That s the bulk central thing He s going to count he s going to put us in position to be triumphant but you ve got to answer the call defensively physicality-wise I thought he did that especially rebounding in the second half The Celtics will look to take a - series lead Wednesday night at TD Garden