Jaylen Brown joined fellow starter Jrue Vacation on the inactive checklist for Monday’s highway matchup towards the Miami Warmth.
The Celtics dominated Brown out for the sport after including him to their damage report earlier within the day. He initially was listed as questionable with proper knee soreness.
Vacation (shoulder) was dominated out for the third consecutive recreation, leaving Boston with out two-fifths of its beginning lineup towards a new-look Miami squad. New signing Torrey Craig (ankle) was not but able to make his Celtics debut, sitting for the second straight recreation since his arrival late final week.
The Celtics additionally listed Jayson Tatum (proper patellar tendinopathy) as questionable, however he was upgraded to obtainable earlier than tipoff. Tatum scored 40 points Saturday night time in a 131-104 rout of the New York Knicks and has missed simply three video games this season, tied with Derrick White for the fewest amongst Celtics starters.
Boston has not performed a recreation with out Tatum and Brown since final 12 months’s regular-season finale, when head coach Joe Mazzulla sat his starters with playoff seeding already secured.
Monday’s DNP was Brown’s eighth of the season and the tenth for Vacation. Each have handled nagging accidents, with Brown beforehand lacking time with hip and shoulder points. Craig, who was waived by Chicago final week, has not performed since Dec. 30.
For Miami, a abdomen bug sidelined All-Star Tyler Herro and Jaime Jaquez Jr., each of whom had been dominated out attributable to sickness. Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson and Davion Mitchell — the three gamers the Warmth acquired within the deadline commerce that despatched Jimmy Butler to Golden State — had been cleared to debut towards Boston.
After coming back from South Florida, the Celtics will host the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday of their closing recreation earlier than the NBA All-Star break.
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