Jaylen Brown lower his hand on damaged glass 9 days in the past and through Boston’s 112-99 win over the Hawks, the laceration opened up.
“Cut up open in the course of the recreation, but it surely’s fantastic now,” Brown defined, downplaying the incident.
He lower it whereas making an attempt to select up the damaged glass of a vase and needed to have 5 stitches afterwards and in Saturday’s recreation it induced him to have a uncommon six turnovers.
“I undoubtedly bought to scrub that up,” the taking pictures guard mentioned of his turnovers.
Within the first quarter of the sport particularly, Brown was trying down at his hand or fidgeting with the padding he was carrying after taking pictures the ball.
“It’s a relentless adjustment, ensuring I’ve a superb grip on the ball,” Brown mentioned.
“There’s not quite a lot of padding on it, so it’s only a completely different really feel taking pictures the ball. [The pain] is ok. Particularly with the adrenaline of the sport, you form of simply get going.”
After he returned to the sport, Brown scored 23 of his 29 factors and his coach and teammates credited him because the catalyst for the Celtics 30-point lead going into halftime, after he grabbed an early steal that shifted the power of the sport.
“He got here out aggressive,” Jayson Tatum mentioned. “He appeared like he appeared fantastic and performed very well.”
Brown additionally had 12 rebounds in a victory that helped Boston take an early lead over Atlanta, with Recreation 2 scheduled for Tuesday April 18 in Boston at 7:00PM ET.
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