Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown completed the season with {a partially} torn proper meniscus, sources advised 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 mentioned.
ESPN beforehand reported that Brown had obtained ache injections in his knee. These injections started in March, sources mentioned.
Brown missed the Celtics’ closing three regular-season video games with the harm however was capable of modify his recreation and play by means of ache to be obtainable for the playoffs, wherein he averaged 22.1 factors and seven.1 rebounds in 36.5 minutes per recreation.
After Friday’s loss in New York, Brown famous that he had been coping with some bodily points.
“I do not make excuses,” he advised reporters. “Clearly, it is robust the way in which we went out like tonight, however the way in which we completed the 12 months, personally, the way in which I completed the 12 months, 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. Middle Kristaps Porzingis additionally was hampered by the lingering results of an sickness the previous few months.
