Super basketball League: After missing Game 2 due to injury, the Boston Celtics are hoping to have guard Marcus Smart back for Game 3.
After sitting out the Celtics’ 109-86 Game 2 victory with a bruised right thigh, Marcus Smart said Thursday there’s a “good possibility” he’ll play Saturday.
“We’re just dealing with the last part of it, and that’s getting that restriction off of the knee and the joint so I can be able to bend,” Smart said in a Zoom session from Boston. “Once that goes away, I should be back to myself. Everything else is healing up the right way.”
Celtics coach Ime Udoka said, “we’ll know more tomorrow, how he reacts to what he did today.”
Smart compared the ailment to one he had during the regular season. Due to a quadriceps issue, the NBA defensive player of the year missed six games in January. He also mentioned that he has fluid in his knee.
“It’s literally the exact same one in the exact same spot,” Smart said. “Just reaggravating the same injury I’ve been dealing with. As we all know, injuries like that, they kind of linger.”
Smart said the injury makes it difficult for him to go into a defensive crouch.
“That’s what’s kind of keeping me back, because of the fluid on the knee that is restricting that movement to really bend down as much as I need to, especially to get into a defensive stance and explode and push off. It’s kind of hard to get out there and play when you can’t do that.”
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