Morning Sports Update: Chris Young will go on DL with strained right hamstring
Good morning, sports fans.
The Celtics select Jaylen Brown, Guerschon Yabusele, Ante Zizic, Demetrius Jackson, Ben Bentil, and Abdel Nader in the 2016 NBA draft, Boston makes a trade comprised of second-round picks, and the Red Sox’ Chris Young suffers an injury
Chris Young will go on DL with strained right hamstring: Red Sox left fielder Chris Young left Thursday’s 8-7 win over the Chicago White Sox with a strained right hamstring. (ESPN.com)
Celtics top pick Jaylen Brown recounts 1-on-1 game with Bulls’ Jimmy Butler: “We went tooth and nail at it. . . . I guess he thought it would be easy, and then somebody won the first game and then he wanted to keep going,” Brown told reporters in New York. “And so we kept going after that, then he won the second, then he won the third, then I won the fourth, and we ended up playing all the way to 21.” (WEEI.com)
Celtics had ‘a lot of discussion, and no deals’ during first round of NBA Draft: With little mystery surrounding how the first two picks would go in Thursday’s NBA draft, the Celtics responded to wider theories about selection No. 3 by keeping things simple. (Boston.com)
Celtics fans boo at TD Garden after Celtics pick Jaylen Brown: After months of buildup to the Celtics’ top pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, team co-owner Wyc Grousbeck noticed that some fans were not impressed by the selection of Jaylen Brown at No. 3 on Thursday night. (Boston.com)
Don Sweeney: Bruins will take ‘one more stab’ at deal with Loui Eriksson: While Bruins GM Don Sweeney hasn’t completely closed the door on re-signing impending free agent Loui Eriksson, it certainly doesn’t sound like there will be any 11th hour contract breakthrough between Boston and the Swedish winger prior to July 1. (CSNNE.com)
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