Celtics star Jaylen Brown (hamstring strain) will return from a five-game absence on Monday against the Bucks, Brian Robb of Masslive.com writes. Boston has lost three straight games and went 1-4 during the stretch that Brown was sidelined.
“I’m feeling good,” Brown said, clearly motivated to return. “I’m feeling like myself, like how I started the season and how I was starting to feel coming back from COVID, getting my legs back up under me.
“Obviously, it’s been difficult to watch, especially wanting to be out there seeing how our team’s been fighting for the most part. It’s been hard to watch, but coming back I’m looking to just add to winning, trying to get everybody on the same page, bring energy and make winning basketball plays.”
Brown originally suffered the injury on November 4 and had missed eight contests. He then returned on a minutes limit for a handful of games, which he now believes was a mistake.
“I think I came back maybe a little too early before because I was not myself,” Brown admitted, as relayed by Robb. “And hamstring’s are a little bit tricky so we were just taking time to figure it out. The organization and the medical staff had good communication and we figured it out.”
The Celtics have struggled so far this season, owning just a 13-14 record to date. For his part, Brown has averaged 21.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 32.8 minutes per contest, appearing in 13 of the team’s 27 games. He’s expected to be available for 30 minutes when the club plays Milwaukee, according to Robb.
It’s all rumors
Celtics and Lakers are interested in Myles Turner
Celtics offer
Robert Williams
Landford
Juan H
Pacers don’t want Tucker and Nunn, so it has be Westbrook for Turner and many others
Sure, let’s start our rebuild with one of the worst contracts in the NBA. Only way the Pacers do that is if Westbrook waves his player option but he’s got million reasons not to.
Why would you give up a younger player in R.Williams who gives you the same as what Turner can give
This is the softest group of Celtic players I’ve seen in my lifetime. Not one of them could play with Bird, Hondo, Cowans, Cousy or Russell. Time to clean house and start over.
They need him to get healthy so the can trade him or Tatum these past few games show they can’t play together it’s just the fact of this crappy built team
Brown and Tatum still need a vet to lead them. Looks like Al is not the one.
I thought Tatum and Brown were capable of leading the team to play winning basketball.
I don’ t understand, Just seems like they’re underachieving to be honest.
Who knows, maybe they’ll get it right in the near future.
Only when time is running out, like at the end of a season.