Hoops Tonight - Jayson Tatum is BACK from injury for Celtics + Reaction to SGA vs. Cade MVP battle | NBA Mailbag
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Jason reacts to the news that Jayson Tatum is returning from injury for the Boston Celtics tonight in a battle against the Dallas Mavericks. He breaks down what this means for Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and the Celtics as a whole. Then he answers NBA mailbag questions involving Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham's bids for MVP, whether Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs can win the NBA Finals this season, Cam Johnson's struggles for the Denver Nuggets, and more.
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| 0:20.0 | All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great end to your week. As usual, today is Mailbag Day. I have a 10 pack of questions from you guys. If you ever want to get questions into the mailbags, all you got to do is go to our full episodes on YouTube, into the comments underneath. Write mailbag with a colon, write your question that helps me sort through it when I'm looking through the comments. |
| 0:39.2 | We'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like this video as well as sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. And then as mentioned, drop your mailbag questions if you want to get into future mailbags. |
| 0:54.4 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 0:55.6 | Now, before we get to drop your mailbag questions if you want to get into future mailbags. |
| 0:54.4 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 0:55.6 | Now, before we get to our actual mailbag questions, Jason Tatum is making his return tonight |
| 1:01.7 | against the Dallas Mavericks, an incredible show of resilience and dedication to recover |
| 1:08.4 | as quickly as he did. |
| 1:09.7 | I think that's less than 10 months on an Achilles repair. |
| 1:13.1 | That's really, really impressive work behind the scenes from Jason Tatum to make it back. |
| 1:18.2 | I just imagine for any basketball player, that's probably the most discouraging injury |
| 1:23.6 | that you can possibly suffer. |
| 1:25.7 | And so to keep your head down and stay focused on the work |
| 1:28.4 | and to get through it the way that he did, I just think is super impressive. Now, I was talking about |
| 1:33.0 | this with Colin Coward yesterday, but, you know, culture is a thing that I think is a foundational |
| 1:39.6 | part of any perennially successful basketball program of any kind, whether it's at college |
| 1:45.5 | in high school or in the pros, right? |
| 1:47.2 | Like if you have a strong basketball culture, it's going to be the thing that helps you be |
| 1:52.0 | competitive when you have a roster that's limited in one reason or another or to meet your |
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