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Attention.....all bridge jumpers..........the C's just might lose tonight.....


PHOENIX — Even before the Boston Celtics' morning shoot-around, there was a pretty good chance the C's would be without at least one player, Glen Davis (right ankle sprain).

Celtics coach Doc Rivers confirmed following Wednesday morning's shoot-around that Davis won't play.

Unfortunately for the Celtics, he might have company.

Boston might be without two additional starters - Paul Pierce (right knee) has missed the last three games - with the most serious injury being to the surgically repaired right knee of Kevin Garnett.

Rivers said he hasn't made up his mind as to whether he will sit Garnett or Rajon Rondo whose left hamstring didn't appear to bother him too much during the team's morning shoot-around.

Garnett's injury is clearly the more serious of the two.

"If I do decide to sit him (Garnett), I'm not sitting him for one game. I can tell you that," Rivers said. "I told Kevin that."

Rivers doesn't have a definitive timetable for when Garnett would return if he sits him tonight, although he said it would likely be around Jan. 6 when the C's play at Miami, or possibly longer.

Garnett has not been moving as well as Rivers would like, which is why Rivers' decision is more of a preventive, big-picture step to avoid a repeat of last season when Garnett missed the final 25 games of the season as well as the playoffs.

"It's early in the season," Rivers said. "We got tonight and we got two days, and then we got three days after that. To me, if you're going to rest guys, this is the perfect time to do it."

Rivers added, "I don't know if I'm going to do that. But right now I can tell you that I'm leaning that way heavily."

When the Celtics decided to not play Garnett against Indiana on Dec. 22, Boston president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said at the time that there might be a time during the season when they decide to sit Garnett.

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Yeah, KG being questionable isn't a surprise....it was reported he get hit in the leg late in Monday's game. This comes on top of the thigh bruise from two weeks ago. All those muscle bruises have taken their toll and it's best he sits a couple out, though Baby's loss is now much more glaring.

Rondo sounds like he's playing. We still have a chance tonight if that's the case.

He looked tenative in the GS game. This is a good opportunity for Sheed to get some run and mabye actually get in shape playing bigger minutes. Hopefully he will be in the post instead of launching threes. I don't know were they will get the points from when T Allen and Rondo aren't really outside shooting threats. Oldschool 30 shot game for Ray?

I just hope it is not the knee with KG...sit him as long as needed...

klemen4 wrote:I just hope it is not the knee with KG...sit him as long as needed...

Doesn't sound like the knee. More like all these nagging injuries, while not major, they can certainly lead to something more serious due to trying to compensate. Why risk it? I think that is why Doc said it wouldn't be just for tonight, but rather a couple of games to ensure all little bumps and bruises have healed.

absolutely sit them until they are 100 percent. any other approach would be absurd.

Celtics lost two games in a row to sub 500 teams and the suns blew out the best team in the NBA their last game. Even if KG played tonight I am not sure they would beat the suns anyway. Rest him.

Hopefully it isn't his knee and more like bumps and bruises. However if Doc wants to sit KG for over a week I am not sure that is a good sign. (after what happened last year who knows how serious KG's injury is)

For the most part celtics can win on the road so I am not sure going balls to the wall for HCA is the best idea given the celtics age and injuries.

Ensoul wrote:Celtics lost two games in a row to sub 500 teams and the suns blew out the best team in the NBA their last game. Even if KG played tonight I am not sure they would beat the suns anyway. Rest him.

Hopefully it isn't his knee and more like bumps and bruises. For the most part celtics can win on the road so I am not sure going balls to the wall for HCA is the best idea given the celtics age and injuries.

The Suns are playing the Celtics tonight, so I don't know what "best team impostor" you are referring to.

Pretty irresponsible on Blakely's part to insinuate KG hurt his knee and not even follow up on it. I wasn't aware of another knee injury, what's the deal with this??

Just to reiterate from the other thread, I hope Doc sits KG and Rondo tonight. No need to risk further injury over a meaningless game on the end of a road trip. Paul's already out. We can't be playing around with these three, they aren't exactly role players.

canman1971 right now the Lakers are the best team in the NBA. Yes they do not win every game but they won all their games with Gasol out and they win games with Artest out.

I don't expect the celtics win win every game but it doesn't make you feel good when they lose to the freaking clippes and get manhandled by a 8-22 Warriors team.

I pretty much agree for the most part with what everyone has been mentioning already. Hopefully Doc can give Walker/Giddens/Hudson some productive minutes and see what we can get from them. It is somewhat disappointing however seeing so many players from our roster suffering from so many nagging injuries this early in the season. Hopefully this is no indication of how the post-season will go.

DunkOnFace wrote:Pretty irresponsible on Blakely's part to insinuate KG hurt his knee and not even follow up on it. I wasn't aware of another knee injury, what's the deal with this??

Yup. This statement has no follow up:

with the most serious injury being to the surgically repaired right knee of Kevin Garnett.

I can't say I'm not worried about KG. I hope, like the rest of us, that it's just external bruises and minor wear & tear but I'm still not convinced.

Whatever it takes to make sure everyone is healthly come playoff time. Celtics don't need lingering injuries to key players.

Cyclical wrote:

DunkOnFace wrote:Pretty irresponsible on Blakely's part to insinuate KG hurt his knee and not even follow up on it. I wasn't aware of another knee injury, what's the deal with this??

Yup. This statement has no follow up:

with the most serious injury being to the surgically repaired right knee of Kevin Garnett.

I can't say I'm not worried about KG. I hope, like the rest of us, that it's just external bruises and minor wear & tear but I'm still not convinced.

I am guessing that it is more of poor writing skills coupled with poor reporting, as in

"the most serious injury being KGs given his surgically repaired knee."

or something like that but not related to the knee, because I can bet 100% that if it had anything to do with his knee, it wouldn't be a question of whether or not to sit him; it would be a guarantee.

Also, every time I hear Doc or Ainge speak of KG's knee, they talk about the bone spurs being removed. So how does that turn into "surgically repaired" by our reporters?

If KG isn't moving well they really should rest him.

Rondo said he wasn't going to miss time so he probably will play.

Dropping these last two games where we had big leads really are lost opportunities and now we're looking at a 3 game skid if we rest other guys with players down already....doesn't make things easier.

Even if we sit KG I still believe the C's have a shot to beat the Suns....but if we have BOTH KG and Rondo out then that would make it almost an impossibility.

Garnett missed one game last week with a right thigh bruise, and he got kicked in the same leg in Monday’s loss to Golden State. Though these latest issues are in the same area, trainer Ed Lacerte said, through the team, that this current situation is not related to the problems that caused Garnett to get surgery on the right knee this past offseason.

Link: http://bostonherald.com/sports/basketba ... two_games/

klemen4 wrote:

Garnett missed one game last week with a right thigh bruise, and he got kicked in the same leg in Monday’s loss to Golden State. Though these latest issues are in the same area, trainer Ed Lacerte said, through the team, that this current situation is not related to the problems that caused Garnett to get surgery on the right knee this past offseason.

Link: http://bostonherald.com/sports/basketba ... two_games/

Thanks for the follow up, klemen. I guess canman is right, poor wording on behalf of Sherrod.

So do we have definite word on whether KG will play or not? I was really looking forward to seeing him play tonight as I am going to the game.