{"id":134632,"date":"2025-04-15T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=134632"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:45:12","slug":"boston-celtics-guard-gives-message-about-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/15\/boston-celtics-guard-gives-message-about-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics Guard Gives Message About Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/15\/celtics-x-factors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Boston Celtics<\/a> once again finished the season as one of the best teams in the league. With a 61-21 record, they earned the No. 2 seed in the East. Additionally, they had the third-best record in the NBA, only behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/14\/play-in-teams-ranked-thunder\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/09\/cavaliers-clinch-east-top-seed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>. As the reigning champions, the Celtics have one specific goal in mind&#8211;to repeat as champions. If they do this, they will be the first NBA team since the 2017-18 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/15\/udonis-haslem-jimmy-butler\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> to do so. However, things could get difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ramonashelburne\/status\/1911083744049680423\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Ramona Shelburne reported<\/a> that Celtics star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brownja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-15_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaylen Brown<\/a> received injections in his knee for pain management. On the surface, this is a concerning injury update. However, Celtics guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holidjr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-15_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jrue Holiday<\/a> recently gave his input on Brown&#8217;s injury, and it should put a lot of Celtics fans&#8217; minds at ease.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jrue Holiday with a positive update on Jaylen Brown from practice today:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked good to me. JB is going to be JB in terms of not showing weakness \u2014 everything is about not showing weakness, for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is worried about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Q: <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBobManning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealBobManning<\/a>) <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qbzPyr08VB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qbzPyr08VB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noa Dalzell \ud83c\udfc0 (@NoaDalzell) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoaDalzell\/status\/1912190235904991332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe looked good to me. JB is going to be JB in terms of not showing weakness \u2014 everything is about not showing weakness, for him,&#8221; Holiday said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is worried about him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Boston Celtics Guard Gives Message About Injury<\/h2>\n<h3>The Boston Celtics&#8217; Outlook With Jaylen Brown&#8217;s Injury<\/h3>\n<p>Though the Celtics still do not know who they will face in the first round of the playoffs, they at least know their first game will be on Sunday. By that point, it will have been exactly a week since the Celtics&#8217; last game. Furthermore, since Brown missed each of Boston&#8217;s last three games, he will be approaching two weeks since the last time he played. Hopefully for Brown and the Celtics, this is enough time for him to get as close to 100% as possible. Additionally, Celtics teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/porzikr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-15_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> recently shared this exact same sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a tough dude,\u201d Porzingis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44640258\/celtics-jaylen-brown-got-painkilling-shot-knee-sources-say\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cHe always preaches his warrior mindset. He lives by it. But to what extent do we need that right now? Maybe he needs to take care of it and make sure he\u2019s going to be ready for the most important moment. I think we need to encourage him to make sure he does everything he needs to prepare to get it healthy and to prepare for what\u2019s going to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word<\/h3>\n<p>Regardless of Brown&#8217;s injury, the Celtics are in a great spot. They ranked as one of the best teams on both sides of the ball in the regular season. Furthermore, they are a nightmare matchup for every team in the playoffs. They are the reigning champions and remain the team to beat in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics once again finished the season as one of the best teams in the league. With a 61-21 record, they earned the No. 2 seed in the East. Additionally, they had the third-best record in the NBA, only behind the Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers. As the reigning champions, the Celtics have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":134633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,5,2,62,3],"tags":[450,239],"class_list":["post-134632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-celtics","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jrue-holiday"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134634,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134632\/revisions\/134634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}