Jayson Tatum

CTL-E-5902 · Person · other · 1998–present

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Combined Graph record U-07147 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5902.

Jayson Tatum, born Jayson Christopher Tatum on 3 March 1998 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. The Gatorade National Player of the Year at Chaminade College Preparatory School, he played one season at Duke before Boston selected him third overall in the 2017 NBA draft. A six-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA First Team selection, he was the Eastern Conference finals MVP in 2022 and led Boston to the 2024 NBA championship, the franchise's first title since 2008. He also won Olympic gold medals with the United States in Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024. In May 2025 he ruptured his Achilles tendon; he returned in March 2026 and averaged 21.7 points across Boston's final regular-season games before knee stiffness held him out of the Celtics' final playoff game. By October 2026 he was healthy, leading a reworked Boston roster into his tenth season after the trade of Jaylen Brown.

The record

• Also known as: Jayson Christopher Tatum

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jayson Tatum entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5902 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1026 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American basketball figure.. Vital status: LIVING — healthy and leading Boston in October 2026 preseason play, scoring 23 points against Philadelphia on 10 October 2026 (USA Today / Celtics Wire). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): NBA champion 2024; six All-Star selections; four All-NBA First Team selections; averaged 21.7 points in 16 games after his March 2026 return from Achilles surgery (Wikipedia; October 2026 Celtics coverage) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: NBA and Celtics press photography of Tatum exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5902-jayson-tatum.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Jayson Tatum" — born 3 March 1998, St. Louis, Missouri; Chaminade and Duke; drafted third overall in 2017; NBA champion 2024; six All-Star selections (2020–2025); four All-NBA First Team selections; Olympic gold medals 2020 and 2024 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Tatum (build store)
• USA Today / Celtics Wire, "Joe Mazzulla on what Jayson Tatum showed us in Celtics' preseason" (11 October 2026) — scored 23 points in Boston's preseason win over Philadelphia on 10 October 2026 after returning from the Achilles injury late in 2025-26; vital-status evidence — https://celticswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/celtics/2026/10/11/mazzulla-on-what-jayson-tatum-showed-us-in-celtics-preseason-76ers-blowout/92201644007/ (primary source · build store)
• NESN, "Celtics' Jayson Tatum on Going From Watching Paul George to Playing Alongside Him" (October 2026) — Tatum leads Boston after the trade of Jaylen Brown; returned during 2025-26 from the ruptured Achilles and helped Boston reach the playoffs — https://nesn.com/boston-celtics/news/celtics-jayson-tatum-watching-paul-george-playing-alongside-surreal/d69a276ed0273708b722b327 (build store)

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