
The future of the Celtics changed in an instant last May.
Superstar Jayson Tatum was in the midst of a career-best playoff game against the Knicks in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs when he shockingly went down with a torn Achilles tendon. Tatum was visibly distraught as he was wheeled off the floor; it was later reported he had an emotional conversation with his father in the locker room afterwards in which he asked, "Why me?"