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The Celtics are likely to be without All-Star forward Jayson Tatum for Game 2 of their first round series against the Magic on Wednesday. The team listed Tatum as doubtful for Wednesday’s matchup at TD Garden due to a bone bruise in his right wrist.
Tatum suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of the Celtics’ Game 1 win on Sunday. Boston’s leading scorer took a hard fall after a flagrant foul from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and spent nearly a minute on the floor in pain. He stayed in the game and played 40 minutes in the win but was seen flexing the wrist throughout the remainder of the game and while on the bench. He got an X-ray on the wrist postgame but said it came back “clean.” However, the team gave him an MRI on Tuesday according to Shams Charania and diagnosed him with a bone bruise.
He practiced with the team on Tuesday but Joe Mazzulla would not commit to his availability for Game 2.
“He was able to do some stuff,” Mazzulla said. “He was sore after the game, he’s gotten a little bit better today. He was able to go through some on court work and we’ll go from there.”
Al Horford also took issue with the foul while speaking at Tuesday’s practice.
“There was something extra,” Horford said. ‘There was a lot – it was the second or third time that especially KCP went at him in that way.”
The Celtics went 8-2 in games without Tatum during the regular season but most of those losses came against the Orlando Magic. However, one of those defeats also included Boston sitting their entire starting five.
Tatum has never missed a playoff game with the Celtics. Boston and Orlando tip off Game 2 at TD Garden at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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Tatum suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of the Celtics’ Game 1 win on Sunday. Boston’s leading scorer took a hard fall after a flagrant foul from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and spent nearly a minute on the floor in pain. He stayed in the game and played 40 minutes in the win but was seen flexing the wrist throughout the remainder of the game and while on the bench. He got an X-ray on the wrist postgame but said it came back “clean.” However, the team gave him an MRI on Tuesday according to Shams Charania and diagnosed him with a bone bruise.
He practiced with the team on Tuesday but Joe Mazzulla would not commit to his availability for Game 2.
“He was able to do some stuff,” Mazzulla said. “He was sore after the game, he’s gotten a little bit better today. He was able to go through some on court work and we’ll go from there.”
Al Horford also took issue with the foul while speaking at Tuesday’s practice.
“There was something extra,” Horford said. ‘There was a lot – it was the second or third time that especially KCP went at him in that way.”
The Celtics went 8-2 in games without Tatum during the regular season but most of those losses came against the Orlando Magic. However, one of those defeats also included Boston sitting their entire starting five.
Tatum has never missed a playoff game with the Celtics. Boston and Orlando tip off Game 2 at TD Garden at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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