Fans can now breathe a sigh of relief after some good news was shedded on Jayson Tatum’s ankle injury scare.

According to the man himself, Tatum’s ankle is “just sore.” From what he can feel, there is nothing significantly wrong. Boston will be more “cautious” moving forward in their quest for another championship.

“I literally just asked him how he was doing, and he said, ‘OK,'” Mazzulla said. “He’ll do anything and everything to make sure he gets better.”

Joe Mazzulla is optimistic for his upcoming tests, as he also believes it is nothing to be concerned about.

Tatum left in the third quarter of Monday’s game against the Sacramento Kings. Tatum landed on Domantas Sabonis’ after going up for a shot.

The Boston Celtics franchise star continues to reflect on his time with Team USA, where he expressed no anger or mixed emotions toward them.

In fact, Jayson Tatum has opened his mind to many different perspectives and has taken some of them upon himself to correct them. He talked about his jump shot and having the right perspective and didn’t close the door on returning to Team USA.

“I wasn’t moping around. I didn’t have an attitude. I wasn’t angry at the world,” Tatum said. “I stayed ready and did what was asked of me and I won a gold medal, right?”

“I know I didn’t make a jump shot when I was with Team USA. I don’t know, law of averages,” Tatum said. “It’s a weird rhythm thing being with Team USA; you never exactly know when you’re gonna get the ball. But that’s part of it. You sign up for that because I’ve done it before (at the Tokyo Games).”

The 26-year-old did give fans a look into his brain, as he says he hasn’t lost confidence in his shot. Tatum even acknowledge the poor shooting display during last season’s playoff run.

“I have two (gold medals) now, I have a championship, and everything doesn’t necessarily go the way you expect it to go, right?” Tatum said. “I’ve learned to be like, ‘OK, that’s a part of it.’ You move on, and I’m getting ready to enjoy the last little weeks I have before the season starts and get ready for another season.”

While keeping everything in perspective, and making changes, Tatum is taking the final weeks of “break” before the next season begins. For now, it is great for fans to see a star player like himself to still have a positive outcome in all of this.

The basketball world was shocked that Team USA’s head coach, Steve Kerr, did not play Jayson Tatum for a single minute, leaving him as a DNP, drawing major criticism towards them instead of focusing on a blow-out victory over Nikola Jokic and Serbia.

Kerr said he felt “like an idiot” and that it won’t happen again, reassuring the fans and the media that Tatum will be seeing playing time this Wednesday. While everyone found it disrespectful and incomprehensible, Tatum reportedly took it well.

“Jayson will play [Wednesday],” Kerr said. “I’m not going to answer your next question, which is if he plays, who doesn’t. But we’re going to need him, and part of this job for me is to keep everybody engaged and ready, because my experience with this is crazy stuff happens.”

Monday saw Joel Embiid benched for Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant’s debut, but fans still couldn’t believe the coaching staff had completely sat Tatum. Kerr said he didn’t know how to get Tatum involved because he wanted to have bigger lineups and minutes that were not panning out correctly.

Wednesday will be an important game, as Team USA takes on South Sudan. Their opponents nearly beat them before LeBron James knocked down the game-winning shot. It would have been a complete upset if Team USA would have lost.