The Celtics have been waiting all season for a clean slate of health. It will never come.
The team announced Monday evening that Jaylen Brown will miss the remainder of the season, including the playoffs, with a torn scapholunate ligament in his left wrist. The injury will cut short the first All-Star season of Brown’s career, hinder his upcoming offseason, throw his start of the 2021-22 season into question and likely crush Boston’s chances of any playoff success.
Even in a cursed season, the Celtics had been hoping to reach the postseason with a healthy roster and see what they could do from there. Before a string of frustrating recent losses, all with a short-handed roster, Brad Stevens stressed how confident he felt about his playoff rotation if the Celtics could just have everyone available.
