Credentialed Celtics Reporter for @TheCelticsWire & @ClutchPoints ✍️ 1/3 of @HavlicekStoleIt 🎙️ \V/ '22 Ball don’t lie 🏀

NH to PA to MA
Joined October 2014
Not a long injury report for the Celtics: Devin Carter - Illness - OUT Derrick White - Right Hip Synovitis - PROBABLE
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A “period of weeks” is a bit spooky…Celtics first play the Raptors in November
Toronto's Kawhi Leonard is expected to miss a period of weeks due to swelling in his left knee, sources tell ESPN. MRI on Leonard's knee showed no structural damage, but sides will use the shorter term to ramp him back up after the stoppages during the offseason.
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Hugo Gonzalez on Baylor Scheierman’s headband: “I don’t like it. He knows that I don’t like it.”
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Hugo Gonzalez on the Celtics throwing a lot of different players and lineups out there: “We got a lot of good players that really (have) proved that they can play on a high level…I think that (says a lot of) good about us. That we got a lot of guys who are ready to go.”
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Payton Pritchard on Mike Conley making his Celtics debut: “Just an unbelievable person, obviously still in unbelievable shape for his age. And I was telling him, like one of the back taps he had, I'm like he looked like a DB still. He’s just a freak.”
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Payton Pritchard on Joe Mazzulla saying “heat checks” aren’t actually heat checks for him: “I work on those shots, so it doesn’t really feel like a bad shot. And obviously it’s not if it goes in.”
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Joe Mazzulla on Hugo Gonzalez’s bounce-back game, and how he doesn’t really view it as one: “I think he's played well even in those two games. Whether it's 2.5 minutes or 3 minutes…he’s done things that have impacted winning…Tonight it was like the best version of him getting better.” Q via @John_Karalis
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Celtics are now 2-1 with the second leg of a back-to-back coming tomorrow. We'll see who plays, but it'll be a good test for Boston's stamina.
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Chris Cenac Jr. has the first points of his young career.
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Ron Harper Jr. is checking in for the first time this season.
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And Mike Conley's first basket as a Celtic comes from a corner 3.
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Celtics are up 30, but Jordan Walsh is playing like they're down 5.
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Mike Conley has checked in for his first minutes as a Celtic.
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Payton Pritchard was in a flow state, as the Celtics lead 105-75 heading into the fourth quarter. Huge for Boston to win those minutes without Jayson Tatum on the floor.
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Payton Pritchard in the third quarter: 19 points The Chicago Bulls: 21 points
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Payton Pritchard is unconscious.
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Buddy Hield needed a map to guard Payton Pritchard, as the Celtics lead 101-73 with 1:22 left in the third quarter. There's truly no limit to Pritchard's range.
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Derrick White is making up for some of his misses by forcing turnovers, as the Celtics lead 71-59 with 8:33 to go in the third quarter. Mitchell Robinson's rebounding presence has been felt tonight, which is what Boston needs from him.
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Nearly the entire Celtics team just went to pick Mitchell Robinson up after that fall.
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Jayson Tatum drains a deep 3 near the buzzer, as the Celtics lead 66-54 heading into halftime. Tatum is off to a great start and so is Hugo Gonzalez, who's been making plays on both ends of the floor.
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