Celtics brilliant advanced Jayson Tatum absent the aboriginal playoff bold of his career Wednesday night, sitting out with a cartilage abrasion in his appropriate wrist as Boston hosted the Orlando Magic in Bold 2 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.
The six-time All-Star was declared out about an hour afore tipoff. He had been listed as ambiguous with the injury, which he suffered in the Celtics’ 103-86 Bold 1 achievement Sunday.
Jayson Tatum was not on the cloister for the pregame cutting that he usually does alongside assistant Jaylen Brown. He abutting his teammates in the bank breadth aloof afore tipoff, cutting artery clothes and a atramentous blanket about his afflicted wrist. He animated at times during the activity and batten with teammates, trainers and coaches during timeouts.
Tatum had played in all 114 accessible playoff amateur during his eight seasons in Boston. He played in 72 amateur during the approved season, arch the Celtics in points, assists and rebounds per game.
The Celtics were 8-2 after Tatum, according to ESPN Research. Both of those losses were to the Magic, but Boston adequate all its starters in the final affair at Orlando on April 9.
During his media availability about two hours afore the game, drillmaster Joe Mazzulla said Tatum had been able to do some on-court assignment Wednesday.
“I apperceive he’s accomplishing aggregate he can to put himself in position to play,” Mazzulla said. “He’ll be day to day.”
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Jayson Tatum Suffers Wrist Injury After Midair Collision; Ruled Out for Game 2 vs. Magic
Jayson Tatum was afflicted back he collided with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Wendell Carter Jr. midair while active for a two-handed douse in the fourth division Sunday. He landed adamantine on his appropriate wrist on the play, for which Caldwell-Pope was alleged for a arrant foul, but remained in the game.
He accomplished with 17 credibility on 8-of-22 cutting to go forth with a game-high 14 rebounds but was apparent benign his wrist.
Jayson Tatum said after that an antecedent anguish affliction went away. A postgame X-ray came aback clean.
He alternate in genitalia of Boston’s convenance affair Tuesday. An MRI that day appear the cartilage bruise.
Celtics adept Al Horford, who started in Tatum’s abode Wednesday night, took barring to the play, bombastic his acceptance that the Magic stepped over the band with their animality on Tatum.
“Yeah, there was article extra,” Horford said Tuesday. “There was a lot. It was the additional or third time that — abnormally [Caldwell-Pope] — went at him in that way.”
The best-of-seven alternation accouterment to Orlando for Game 3 on Friday.
ESPN’s Baxter Holmes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
