Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown acquired 5 stitches in his taking pictures hand on Thursday after slicing himself on a glass vase.
The Celtics star advised reporters Friday that he suffered the harm whereas watering vegetation.
“I was watering my plant and ended up knocking over a glass vase that was next to it,” Brown stated. “Picked it up, set it on the ground, realized you probably shouldn’t set glass on the ground. Reached down and picked it back up, and it got me.”
Brown, 26, stated Friday he anticipated to have his exercise restricted for at the least the next two days.
“I can still work out and do everything that I normally do,” Brown stated. “Just I guess try to do as least as possible to let it heal. And that’s pretty much it.”
He was sporting a protecting wrap round his hand on Friday and didn’t play within the Celtics’ 121-102 win over the Toronto Raptors.
The Celtics end the common season in opposition to the visiting Atlanta Hawks on Sunday afternoon.
Brown made his second All-Star staff this season and has averaged 26.6 factors, 6.9 rebounds and three.5 assists over 67 video games (all begins).
Earlier within the week he was introduced because the winner of the 2022-23 Red Auerbach Award, which is given “to the Celtics player who best exhibits excellence on and off the court each year and exemplifies the spirit and meaning of what it means to be a Boston Celtic.”
The Celtics are the No. 2 seed within the Eastern Conference with a 56-25 file getting into Sunday’s season finale. Their first-round opponent will probably be both the No. 7 seed Miami Heat or No. 8 Hawks, who will face off in subsequent week’s NBA play-in match.
