{"id":695166,"date":"2026-04-03T03:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:10:31","slug":"celtics-bucks-injury-reports-show-1-team-will-be-very-shorthanded-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695166\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics, Bucks injury reports show 1 team will be very shorthanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Celtics will once again be without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\/boston-celtics-news\/137300\/nikola-vucevic-jayson-tatum-injury-recovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nikola Vucevic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nikola Vucevic&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nikola Vucevic<\/a> when they face the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night. Vucevic is continuing to recover from a fractured right ring finger suffered almost four weeks ago (on March 6th), but seems to be progressing in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019s getting better, as you saw in the workout today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\/articles\/128362\/jaylen-brown-text-to-joe-mazzulla-foreshadowed-career-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joe Mazzulla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Joe Mazzulla&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Joe Mazzulla<\/a> said on Wednesday night before Celtics-Heat. \u201cThe most important thing is that he feels 100%. When he\u2019s ready, he\u2019ll come back, and we just want him back when he\u2019s ready to go. He\u2019s going to help us \u2014 we obviously see the impact that he has on us as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Celtics have an otherwise clear injury report; Jaylen Brown, who missed two games due to left Achilles tendinopathy, is fresh off a 43-point, 7-assist game vs the Heat and dismissed long-term concerns regarding the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And Jayson Tatum, who made his return to the lineup on March 6th, continues to be available for the Celtics without significant restriction. Tatum has only missed two games since making his return, and is averaging 21.3 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 4.8 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Bucks, meanwhile, will be without Giannis Antetokounmpo (left knee hyperextension), Kevin Porter Jr (right knee synovitis), and Bobby Portis (left wrist sprain). Thanasis Antetokounmpo is questionable with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n<p>How the Celtics, Bucks stack up<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Celtics are 51-25 and have the East\u2019s second-best record, holding a 2.5 game lead over the New York Knicks. They\u2019ve won 8 of their last 10 games, most recently an 18-point thrashing over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Bucks, meanwhile, have had an undeniably disappointing campaign. They\u2019re 30-46 and officially out of play-in contention. Giannis Antetokounmpo is out for the season. And, they\u2019ve dropped 7 of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Celtics are 2-1 against the Bucks this season; they dropped a December 11th game in Milwaukee when Kyle Kuzma exploded for 31 points. They went on to win their next two games against Milwaukee, both by almost 30 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Celtics-Bucks tips off at 8pm on Friday night in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics will once again be without Nikola Vucevic when they face the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,507,75,103,127,123,78,77,365,124,295,189,102,121,3871,6,191,3853,405,21490,12289,361,3209,1980],"class_list":{"0":"post-695166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bucks","12":"tag-fiserv-forum","13":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-jayson-tatum","16":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","17":"tag-kyle-kuzma","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-miami-heat","20":"tag-milwaukee","21":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","22":"tag-milwaukeebucks","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-new-york-knicks","25":"tag-nikola-vucevic","26":"tag-payton-pritchard","27":"tag-pete-nance","28":"tag-thanasis-antetokounmpo","29":"tag-the-bucks","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338584792511761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}