Celtics’ Marcus Smart out “a couple of weeks-plus’’ with left leg injury
Celtics head coach Brad Stevens announced Sunday that Marcus Smart will be sidelined for “a couple of weeks-plus’’ with a lower left leg injury. Stevens said the Boston point guard suffered a subluxation of the proximal tib-fib joint in his left leg against the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night at TD Garden.
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[fragment number=1]Stevens said the joint “went in and out,’’ aggravating “the muscle and the tendons around [the joint],’’ according to the team’s website.
Smart could be back in two-to-four weeks and will not require surgery, reported Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe.
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Smart was removed from the Celtics’ 120-95 win on Friday night after appearing to bang knees with Brooklyn’s Thomas Robinson in the fourth quarter. The team initially announced that Smart had been diagnosed with a bruised left knee.
After the game, Stevens said Smart would be going for an MRI. On Saturday, the team announced that Smart would not travel to Brooklyn for the second game of a home-and-away set with the Nets to be played on Sunday. He was also ruled out for an upcoming game against the Hawks on Tuesday.
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