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Jayson Tatum discusses summer workouts with Paul Pierce and why he avoided wrist surgery

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Jayson Tatum put his hands on his hips and jokingly sighed as he opened his press conference at Celtics Media Day.1

“I bet I can guess what you’re going to ask me,” Tatum said. “I spent a lot of time with Paul Pierce this summer, which was great. He was really motivated. Paul actually lost 15-20 pounds. And it was about four weeks.

“He came into the gym every day and it was cool to have him around,” Tatum continued. “He told us a lot of stories about the championship team that we can try to apply to this year.