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Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving is expecting to miss a few games after failing to return after halftime of Sunday night’s game due to a lingering case of knee soreness. This news comes via Jared Weiss of USA Today’s CelticsWire:
Irving has been dealing with occasional knee soreness in his left knee since his 2015 surgery to repair a broken kneecap, but the soreness has gotten to the point that he needs to shut it down for a little while.
“It’s just been aching for a little bit,” Irving said Sunday night. “I just think I need to take some time.”
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“I think that will probably be the best thing, just instead of kind of hoping it gets better over the two or three days that it usually does,” Irving said. “It’s aching a little bit more than I wanted it to now, so I’m taking the necessary time.”
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the Celtics are confident that Irving’s knee soreness isn’t serious:
There's confidence that Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving's left knee soreness is no more than tendonitis and that he will not need to miss significant time, league sources tell ESPN. Irving is considered day-to-day.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 12, 2018
The injury bug is hitting the Celtics hard. Daniel Theis is expected to miss the rest of the season with a torn meniscus, while Marcus Smart is out indefinitely with a torn tendon in his right thumb.
