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Ramona Shelburne
Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown completed the season with {a partially} torn proper meniscus, sources informed ESPN.
Brown had been enjoying in ache over the last month of the common season and the playoffs, which concluded with Friday’s Recreation 6 loss to the New York Knicks within the Jap Convention semifinals.
He will likely be evaluated this week to find out if surgical procedure is required, sources stated.
ESPN beforehand reported that Brown had acquired ache injections in his knee. These injections started in March, sources stated.
Brown missed the Celtics’ remaining three regular-season video games with the damage however was in a position to modify his sport and play by means of ache to be out there for the playoffs, by which he averaged 22.1 factors and seven.1 rebounds in 36.5 minutes per sport.
After Friday’s loss in New York, Brown famous that he had been coping with some bodily points.
“I do not make excuses,” he informed reporters. “Clearly, it is powerful the way in which we went out like tonight, however the way in which we completed the yr, personally, the way in which I completed the yr, persevering by means of some bodily stuff that I used to be battling by means of, I am pleased with our group.”
The Celtics misplaced star ahead Jayson Tatum to a torn Achilles tendon in Recreation 4. Heart Kristaps Porzingis additionally was hampered by the lingering results of an sickness the previous few months.
