Glen Davis injury update: Davis will likely miss “a couple of games”
Glen Davis will miss approximately a week with left knee patellar tendinitis, according to WEEI. Davis, who aggravated the injury when landing after a rare dunk, said the knee has bothered him all season.
“I’ve been playing with it all year, since Game 7 of last year,” Davis said. “It’s a sigh of relief but you don’t want to be hurt anyway. You don’t want to sit out. You can’t take that approach. It could be worse. I’m just glad I’m here [watching practice], getting healthy and getting ready to play.”
“Nothing serious but he may be out for three, four or five days,” Rivers said. “But it’s nothing serious. He’ll miss Friday [vs. Golden State]. I think he’ll miss a couple of games. But overall, that’s pretty good.”
In Davis’ absence, expect Troy Murphy and Jeff Green to receive expanded playing time. Green’s versatility will come in handy, as he can play some of Davis’ minutes at power forward.
Shaquille O’Neal participated in skeleton drills, but has not yet been cleared to participate fully in practice. Doc Rivers said he hopes Shaq to be available by next week, but Rivers has had the same hope for approximately a month.
Delonte West did not practice, and will not play this weekend. Rivers said West, like Shaq, should return sometime next week.
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Celtics Blog | Jay King | March 3, 2011
When is KP coming down off the Celtic wall? I suggest Shaq…ASAP. You want to keep your karma good! Sorry to be the one to point this out but it’s time to move on. Go Cs…
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Re. Krstic vs. Perkins: Sigh. Sure, ok. You’re right. You must be right, now that you have joined the Lurve The Trade bandwagon. Personnel don’t matter to the defense (unless it’s Garnett), only to the offense. For the last 8 months virtually everyone agreed that Perkins was a key component, but a week ago he turned into a disposable scrub who couldn’t score a basket to save his life (funny that he averaged more points per game than Krstic, but anyways …). Just cue the false arguments.
The Trade hinges on three things: on Shaq’s healthy and motivated return, lasting through the playoffs, and on the Big Four rising to the occasion big time, without any of them (most particularly Garnett) going down to injury due to the increased load, and on the new guys working themselves in with tremendous energy and commitment. If those things don’t work out, we’ll get flushed from the playoffs early. All the false arguments for The Trade won’t work when it’s really on the line in a playoff series against a tough opponent.
Meanwhile, I have to wonder what it does to the Celtics Way, now that both the team and the fans and the writers have demonstrated just how fast they’ll turn on a player?
I wonder how it feels to be Rondo, right now, knowing that if Delonte has a couple of hot games in a row, he’ll be hearing about how expandable he is, how his bad shooting is hurting the team?
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Paul… OK, I’m breaking my rule once again to comment about the trade. The reason all of us supporters of the trade are stoked is that while we all appreciated KP’s heart, effort and play we also were at the exact time always hoping and wishing for more from him as we all believed he could be a regular dbl-dbl guy every night and still give the great defense. But the longer the seasons have progressed from early in his career to his fine yr of 2008 we have been let down in regards to seeing significant improvement. His offense is very weak and his rebounding is mediocre for a ‘great’ center. And he is helped by the team defense especially KG. Add to that the fact that there were no other center options. There was no Shaq, JO, SE, NK, even CJ…we just had ZERO bigs and because of that we were extremely exposed (even more so) in the Finals last year once KP went down. And even then in all the regular season and playoff games we all saw that yes he could give something solid but maybe…just maybe there was something missing? Well DA addressed the something missing because KP was never going to get $50M from the Celtics or anything close. He provided a meager 5.8 pts and 5.8 rebs in the Finals before missing the last 2 games with injury. He is NOT WORTH $8.7M per year under any circumstances and even if we only had SE or CJ as our centers. So DA went out and got Shaq and JO and then with the ‘trade’ improved the bench greatly as that was our weak spot. So we have a solid bench of ex-STARTERS all capable of giving better offense and rebounding (once all are in sync and have at least 10 games under their belt to acclimate) and most importantly being able to step in if any more injuries happen. Today, without Shaq and JO we are a better team than last year’s team that lost in Game 7. I believe this without a doubt and have heard the same from DA’s lips. And the prospect of getting Shaq and JO back still remains thereby making the Cs even better and likely to get banner#18 but also #19 next year in a repeat. KP was a key component but also the only center component of any size (GD is not). So while we all ‘loved’ having KP we are more so in love with having a much better Celtic team going forward. Our core of HOFs and RR the all-star are now accompanied with more talent and options going into the finals months for the home court advantage (especially while Parker is injured) and playoff run. Go Cs…
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Where’s jay today?
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Still in mourning? Go Cs…
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