The Celtics have ruled out Jayson Tatum for Saturday’s game in Toronto due to left wrist soreness, the team announced (via Twitter). As Jared Weiss of The Athletic notes (via Twitter), Tatum played through a non-displaced fracture in that same wrist last season and said recently that he’s been dealing with some pain in that area.
There’s no indication that it’s a serious issue though — the Celtics likely viewed it as a good time to get Tatum a day off after he played 48 minutes in an overtime win over Golden State on Thursday.
Here’s more from around the Atlantic:
- The $6.9MM traded player exception the Celtics generated when they sent Juancho Hernangomez to San Antonio last January expired when it wasn’t used by the end of the day on Thursday. As our list of outstanding trade exceptions shows, Boston still has several TPEs available — the largest of those exceptions, worth $5.9MM, will expire if it’s not used by this season’s trade deadline.
- Although the Knicks will miss Mitchell Robinson in the middle as he recovers from thumb surgery, head coach Tom Thibodeau isn’t upset about the opportunity to have Jericho Sims play a bigger role, discussing on Friday how the big man has improved since arriving in the NBA, per Peter Botte of The New York Post. “Obviously the easy part to see is the athleticism, but also his touch with the ball, right and left hand in the paint, his passing ability, the way he can run the floor, and all the things that he’s doing defensively,” Thibodeau said of Sims. “But I think the big thing is the way he works. I think with that type of work ethic, his competitiveness, he’ll continue to get better and better.”
- In a mailbag for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Keith Pompey explains why he believes the Sixers could use another center and outlines why he doesn’t love the idea of moving Tyrese Maxey back into the starting lineup and making Tobias Harris a sixth man.
Melton is the perfect complement to Harden in the backcourt as a starter & Maxey is the perfect 6th man. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I agree they could use another big tho. Nerlens & Saddiq for Matisse, Furkan, Reed & a future 1st could work pretty well for Philly & Detroit
I actually agree with you on this. Perfect trade for both teams.
If Kyrie said Sirhan didnt kill RFK it would be front page news in this, a website dedicated to basketball.
Lets see how much buzz he gets for actually being great at basketball & putting on an amazing performance last night.. link to m.youtube.com
Stick up for an anti-semite/racist. Keep it classy, Sankara
This site doesn’t usually post articles like “x player is playing great!” unless the implication is they could be on the trade block.
F$$$ Kyrie …… go sail to the end of the world.
The sixers don’t have any assets to trade away at the trade deadline this year unless it’s Maxey or Melton. I don’t move either of them.I don’t think we have any draft picks we can trade either
Ah the regular rounds of the 76ers need more help at centre…