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Baxter Holmes
Boston-El All-Star Tatum of the Boston Celtics, Jayson Tatum, said that a radiography after the game on his right wrist was “clean” and that he was “well” after a tough fall during the victory of the playoffs 103-86 of his team against Orlando Magic on Sunday in TD Garden.
Tatum, who ended with 17 points in 8 of 22 shots in almost 40 minutes, seemed to hurt the wrist with 8:28 remaining in the last quarter in a driving attempt on the edge when he was received by two magical defenders, Kentaviovious Caldwell-Pope and Wendell Carter Jr.
Caldwell-Pope and Carter collided in the air with Tatum, sending Tatum to the floor. He seemed to land on his right wrist.
Tatum immediately grabbed his wrist, making a pain doll while staying on the floor. After a review, the initial call of a personal foul on Caldwell-Pope was updated to a flagrant foul 1.
Tatum stayed in the game but the following two free throws were lost. He seemed to be favoring his wrist, which flexed and held after leaving the court in recent seconds, since the second sown celtics closed game 1 of his first round series against the seventh sown magic.
“Okay,” Tatum said later. “He only fell on him, he landed on him.”
He added: “I was throbbing for a second. Something of the disappearance.”
The Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla simply said that Tatum was “well” after the game and did not seem worried about Tatum’s availability in the future.
Although Tatum had a shooting game according to its standards (including 1 of 8 from the range of 3 points), it obtained 14 rebounds, and the Celtics were driven by strong performances of the entire alignment.
The initial guard Derrick White made seven triples and ended with 30 points on the team.
Payton Pritchard, the leader of the Sixth Man award of the NBA year, scored 19 points from the Boston Bank.
And Defensor Celtics champion recovered with a strong second half, building an advantage of 19 points at one time, after continuing with one halftime against a magical team that was led by 36 points of Paolo Banchero.
“I think that is what makes us so dangerous, that we only have a really balanced team,” Tatum said. “And the boys take a step forward and can be different boys on any night. And everyone else simply discover their part to make sure we win.”
The Swingman All-Star of the Celtics, Jaylen Brown, added 16 points in almost 30 minutes in his first game after being out of the last three games of the regular season due to a bone bruise on his right knee. Brown, who added a two -hand dump to the end of the third quarter, seemed to move well in his first game in almost two weeks.
“I felt good today,” Brown said on his knee. “To start the game, it took me a bit to enter the game. I feel that I was seeing a little to start. The second half, I could get more involved, make some plays, have better activities.”
The Celtics will face magic in game 2 on Wednesday in Boston.
