BOSTON — Nikola Vucevic has been dominated out for the remainder of Saturday’s sport between the Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks after struggling a proper ring finger fracture. Vucevic is anticipated to endure a process on Saturday for his fractured ring finger and miss roughly one month, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Vucevic has solely performed two minutes of Friday’s sport earlier than he headed to the locker room, clutching his hand. Luka Garza subbed in for him and completed out the quarter, and the seconds subsequently introduced the harm within the second quarter.
The harm got here simply minutes after Jayson Tatum returned from an almost 10-month-long absence after rupturing his Achilles tendon final April.
Vucevic has appeared in 11 video games for the Celtics since being acquired on the commerce deadline by the Bulls within the commerce that despatched Anfernee Simons to Chicago.
To date this season, he’s averaged 11.4 factors and seven.8 rebounds in 23.5 minutes throughout 11 video games.
A month-long restoration timeline brings Vucevic again with just some regular-season video games left to spare. In his absence, it’s probably Garza will assume a bigger bench position, extra carefully resembling the one he held earlier than the commerce deadline. Tatum might additionally account for some frontcourt minutes.
This story can be up to date as extra info is obtainable.
