With the NBA regular season winding down, teams are preparing for their upcoming opening playoff series set to begin later this month. Unfortunately, it looks like the Boston Celtics may not be at 100 percent for the postseason after some extremely uncommon injury news emerged on Friday.
Boston has certainly been one of the most impressive teams in basketball yet again this season, currently sitting at a 55-25 record as the second seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Celtics almost certainly have aspirations to take home a championship this year after losing in the NBA Finals to the Golden State Warriors last postseason. Unfortunately, some horrible news emerged about All-Star forward Jaylen Brown.
The Athletic’s Jared Weiss tweeted out a picture of Brown’s right hand, which was wrapped heavily. According to Weiss, Brown cut his hand picking up a vase that was knocked over while he was watering his plants on Thursday night.
The cut required five stitches in his hand.
Jaylen Brown cut his right hand picking up a glass vase he knocked over while watering his plants last night and got 5 stitches. Said he’s expected to be ready for the playoffs, but he’s pissed. pic.twitter.com/JMVYnwGgtN
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 7, 2023
Due to this injury, Brown will not be playing in the Celtics’ matchup on Friday night against the Toronto Raptors. Weiss added that Brown is expected to be ready for the postseason.
Many around the NBA world took notice of this news and are concerned for Brown and how this injury could affect him even if he is active for the postseason.
…not great right before the playoffs https://t.co/QzmRpt0cAG
— Hank Lockwood (@hen_ease) April 7, 2023
Wow this sucks right before the playoffs smh https://t.co/9hDcuVVox4
— GreenRunsDeep (@CelticsGRD) April 7, 2023
That’s… quite the cast. And brutal timing. @abc6 #bleedgreen https://t.co/iIJ68XDcCy
— Ian Steele (@IanSteeleABC6) April 7, 2023
Others think that there may be more to this story considering most would probably be cautious and sweep up glass chards with a broom.
This seems slightly suspect to me but what do I know. https://t.co/g1bDfsTmAf
— Lucy Burdge (@LucilleBurdge) April 7, 2023
What a violent outcome from such a tender activity https://t.co/pjOdGnxyY5
— Kylie Cheung (@kylietcheung) April 7, 2023
I, too, pickup broken glass by dipping my fist in glue and viscously slapping the ground so it sticks.
— Rafael Avitabile (@RafaAvitabile) April 7, 2023
Regardless of the situation, it couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Celtics as they look forward to the postseason.