Meniscus tear! This team is in a state of cold...

According to ESPN reporter Shelburne, Jaylen Brown has been fighting with injuries this year in the playoffs, and he ended the journey of this season with a partial tear on his right knee meniscus. According to

, Brown will be evaluated this week to determine whether surgery is needed. ESPN had previously reported that Brown had received pain relief injections on his knee, and the related treatment began in March this year.

Therefore, throughout the playoffs, he was fighting with injuries. I have to say that he is really a tough guy. Although this wave is not praised, it is definitely worthy of the respect of fans.

In this year's playoffs, Brown averaged 36.5 minutes per game, handed in 22.1 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists, and 3. Turnovers, with a shooting percentage of 44.1% + 33.3%, and a real shooting percentage of 54.2%. The injury has an impact on his condition.

As a comparison, Brown played his masterpiece in the playoffs last year, averaging 29.8 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and 20.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the finals. While winning the MVP of the Eastern Conference Finals + MVP of the Finals, it also helped the team win the championship again after 16 years.

It's a pity that it has been too difficult to defend the title in the NBA in recent years. The second is the injury blow. Every year, the playoffs have become the cruel game where the winner is the king, and this year's Celtics have not avoided it.

Not only Brown, Tatum suffered a devastating blow...

In the last minute of the semi-final G4, Tatum fell to the ground without confrontation and was then pushed out of the stadium by a wheelchair. At that time, the media predicted that Tatum had a ruptured Achilles tendon.

Sure enough, the next day's MRI results showed that Tatum suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon, which was very similar to Durant's back then. This blow was devastating, and a rupture of the Achilles tendon is the first killer weapon for professional players.

According to historical cases, the average recovery time for NBA players to suffer from Achilles tendon rupture is 11 months, the return rate is 80%, the shortest absence time is Kobe's 7 months and the longest is Cousins' 357 days.

From the current time point, even if it is a little more optimistic 10 months, Tatum can only return in March next year as early as possible, and will be basically reimbursed in the regular season next season.

So the Celtics face a very serious situation next season. This is not only the challenge of injury, but also the inside core Porzingis has been infected with the virus for a long time, and the starting point guard Holiday has declined sharply. In addition, their salary structure has also been quite imbalanced.

Their total salary and luxury tax are third in the league this season. Of course, this is based on Tatum's super contract that has not yet taken effect. The 5-year, 314 million super maximum salary renewed by Tatum and the team last summer will take effect in the new season, and his salary will reach $54.13 million in the first year.

Tatum + Brown alone bears a total contract of $600 million, of which Brown is 285 million in five years and Tatum is 314 million in five years. In addition, Holiday's annual salary next season will be 32.4 million, Porzingis will be 30.73 million, and White will be 28.1 million. Next season, there will be 5 players with an annual salary of more than 25 million in the team.

Previously, the team's original boss just sold the team for a record $6.1 billion, and the loss of the new boss this season was as high as $80 million in the first year. The team's total expenditure next season is expected to exceed 500 million, and the losses will further increase by then.

If the team cannot enter the playoffs next season without Tatum, the team will inevitably face the risk of breaking up the team. Porzingis + Holiday are both targets to be cleaned up, and may even include Brown. After all, his contract is too large. Once the team's limit is exceeded, nothing can happen.

Of course, the more extreme way is that the team may completely strategically give up next season and choose to send Holiday + Porzingis away, and at the same time, they play a bad job and sprint for a high-level lottery. Referring to the 76ers this season, they finally won the Tanhua lottery by playing a bad game.

After winning the championship last season, almost everyone thought that the Celtics had hope of building a dynasty, but in just one year, the team faced an extremely complicated situation, and the injury was really as fierce as a tiger.

And all this has to be based on Tatum being able to return to the peak. Not everyone has the height + projection of Durant. If they cannot return to the peak, then all this will be completely cool.