{"id":145170,"date":"2025-04-14T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=145170"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:32:36","slug":"grant-williams-reflects-on-immature-hard-foul-jayson-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=145170","title":{"rendered":"Grant Williams Reflects on ‘Immature’ Hard Foul Jayson Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON —\u00a0Grant Williams\u00a0<\/strong>returned to TD Garden for the second time since departing the Celtics this weekend, sidelined again at the end of a losing Hornets season. Only this time, he’s in the middle stages of recovery from an ACL tear that’ll stretch into the summer. He still has several months to go, and the injury gave him time to reflect and assess how he plays the game.<\/p>\n

The tear happened on Nov. 23 in Milwaukee, three weeks after his bizarre hard foul on Jayson Tatum\u00a0<\/strong>in the first of a two-game mini series against Williams’ Hornets<\/a>. Officials ejected Williams for the hit, Tatum wouldn’t address it post-game until the next night and\u00a0Jaylen Brown\u00a0<\/strong>compared it to\u00a0Ray Lewis\u00a0<\/strong>coming over the middle. Williams, after that game, called it a play on the ball with no malicious intent. He later joked to\u00a0NBC Sports Boston\u00a0<\/em>that the play would likely cancel a planned dinner between himself and teammates.<\/p>\n