Jayson Tatum: "I understood like how hard I worked to get to this point. I was trying to win my second championship, and I felt—I couldn’t understand, 'cause I felt great. Like, I felt fine. It wasn’t like I knew something was lingering or something was hurting. So that crushed me. And then it just—the not knowing what’s next. Like, I mean, obviously knowing that, you know, this is a long journey of recovery, but, you know, I was like, am I going to be the same or am I going to get traded? Like, you just have this idea of what the next x amount of years of your life is going to look like, and then, you know, it all changed."

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