The Boston Celtics fell to the Orlando Magic Sunday night time at TD Garden, however managed to clinch home-court benefit within the first spherical of the playoffs earlier than even tipping off.
Thanks to an Indiana Pacers loss to the Brooklyn Nets, the Celtics locked up home-court with out even lifting a finger. Now that the stage is ready for spherical one, the Celtics are avoiding any potential points of their common season finale.
The Celtics are sitting out seven gamers in Tuesday’s matchup with the Washington Wizards. Kyrie Irving, Gordon Hayward, Al Horford, Marcus Morris, Marcus Smart, and Jayson Tatum will all be out of Boston’s final common season sport, in keeping with the staff’s newest harm report.
Smart suffered a strained indirect in Sunday’s loss to the Magic, inflicting some concern because the staff seems to be in direction of the playoffs. Brad Stevens did say after the sport that Smart was strolling across the Celtics locker room and added that the harm didn’t appear as unhealthy as they initially had thought.
Tatum has a shin harm that brought about him to overlook nearly all of Sunday’s sport, however his absence is probably going precautionary related the remainder of the harm report.
If you’re searching for Robert Williams, Guerschon Yabusele, RJ Hunter, and Brad Wanamaker minutes, Tuesday night time is the sport for you.
Sitting out all of those gamers can profit Boston in additional methods than one. A Washington win works within the Celtics favor, as it will assist the Memphis Grizzlies hold their 2019 first spherical choose, somewhat than have it convey to Boston
The Celtics and Wizards tip off from Capital One Arena on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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