Celtics' Jayson Tatum Conquers MSG Injury Memories, Embiid OUT, Playoff Stakes RISE in Final Weekend

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Boston Celtics fall to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, but Jayson Tatum’s emotional return after last season’s Achilles injury sparks the bigger storyline. Can Tatum’s mental hurdle bolster the Celtics’ championship push?

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily, the Celtics lost for the Knicks last night at MSG, but was Jason Tatum the ultimate winner.
0:08.0	Meanwhile, disaster strikes Joel Embed and the Sixers again.
0:11.0	Plus, we look ahead to the biggest battles for playoff seating and make some predictions.
0:15.0	Locked on NBA Daily starts now.
0:23.6	You are Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:28.5	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:35.2	Hello, and welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily. I'm Wes Goldberg here with Matt Moore. And hey, it's got a great show for you today. Joel Embed gets emergency surgery. We're going to talk about a heated rookie of the year race and some of the most important playoff seating battles still left as we approach the final weekend of the regular season. But guys, we got to start at Madison Square Garden where Jason Tatum played for the first
0:57.8	time last night since tearing his Achilles there in the playoffs last season.
1:01.6	Celtics lost the game, but John Corrales over at Lockdown Celtics says that Tatum was still
1:06.6	the biggest winner of the night.
1:08.9	MSG kind of became a haunted house for him.
1:11.5	There's a spirit in there, his spirit, that had unfinished business.
1:15.8	He needed to walk off that floor.
1:19.7	You know, the last time he was there, he was carried off.
1:22.5	He was helped off and rolled out in a wheelchair and was in New York,
1:27.8	stayed in New York and had surgery the next day.
1:33.5	Traumatic experience.
1:34.7	He needed to go back there.
1:36.5	He was very well aware of the spot on the floor.
1:39.2	He knew exactly when he was standing on it, walking over it.
1:43.2	He remembers everything very clearly.
1:46.7	And to him, it was very, very important to go do that and to walk off that floor at the end and check that mental box.
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