ORLANDO — Jaylen Brown is out there to play in Sunday’s Sport 4 between the Celtics and the Magic, the Celtics introduced an hour forward of tip-off.
Brown was not on the harm report for the crew’s first two playoff video games, however was listed as questionable with a proper knee impingement forward of Sport 3. He performed in that recreation, scoring 19 factors on 7-14 capturing to go together with 6 rebounds.
After the sport, Brown declined to share a lot details about his knee, merely stating: “[I’m] taking it sooner or later at a time.
By three playoff video games, Brown is averaging 23.7 factors on 53.2% from the sphere and 54.5% from three.
No Jrue Vacation for the second straight playoff recreation
Jrue Vacation, in the meantime, will miss his second consecutive playoff recreation with a proper hamstring pressure. Joe Mazzulla stated on Saturday that Vacation is day-to-day.
Payton Pritchard stated on Sunday that everybody on the Celtics must step up in Vacation’s absence, whereas Al Horford has maintained that the Celtics are geared up to produce other guys step up in Vacation’s absence.
In a Zoom media availability on Saturday, Mazzulla detailed the “infinite” intangibles that Vacation brings to the desk.
“The mentality that he performs with, the selflessness that he performs with, however the physicality and the toughness and defensive versatility, his means to protect completely different positions, his means to stress the basketball, his means to take tendencies from particular person D and simply make profitable performs, whether or not it’s our offensive rebounding, defensive rebounding, screening,” Mazzulla stated, rattling down a seemingly endless checklist. “[He’s] one other ball handler to have on the market versus stress, after which in transition, he can create benefits for others together with his screening and tempo.”
