What happened
Joe Mazzulla said Boston trusted its sports science staff after Jayson Tatum logged more than 40 minutes on the second night of a back-to-back against Brooklyn.
He also mixed his overtime group, opening with Baylor Scheierman and Payton Pritchard before bringing veterans back, suggesting every minute is being tracked closely.
LINEUP CONTEXT
Boston may keep leaning on deeper rotation pieces on future back-to-backs, but the exact rest pattern remains unsettled.
Automated brief based on the linked report. Lineup context is analysis; official starting-five labels come separately from our game data provider.
Original reporting: Back-to-backs, holding Jayson Tatum out of Game 7, and sports science — Yahoo Sports ↗