{"id":700075,"date":"2026-04-05T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:17:18","slug":"boston-celtics-get-good-injury-news-about-nikola-vucevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700075\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics Get Good Injury News About Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s been one constant this season for the Boston Celtics, <\/a>it\u2019s that there has always been a name on the injury report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That might be coming to an end now that Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 has been cleared to play. Vu\u010devi\u0107 has missed four weeks due to a fracture in his right ring finger<\/a>. He underwent surgery on March 7<\/a> to repair the fracture, but has been with the team for the entire month. That, according to Joe Mazzulla<\/a>, has helped Vu\u010devi\u0107 get up to speed even though he hasn\u2019t played.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been in every film session, every walk through, practice, shoot around that we’ve had,\u201d Joe Mazzulla said before taking on the Toronto Raptors at TD Garden. \u201cI think it’s kind of maybe even slowed down for him. I think seeing the game live from a different perspective \u2026 hearing the communication and things, I think it just slowed down for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that Vu\u010devi\u0107 is back, he\u2019ll finally get a chance to work with Jayson Tatum. Vu\u010devi\u0107 hurt his finger minutes into Tatum\u2019s return against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, so it would seem that getting him reps with Tatum will be a priority. Mazzulla isn\u2019t looking at it that way, at least publicly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the thing we’re looking forward to is how teams are gonna defend when Vuc is out there,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cWhat coverage they’re gonna be in. what are the matchups, and that\u2019’ll kind of dictate what our reads need to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are five games left, and one of them is on a back-to-back, which Tatum will probably miss. So that gives Vu\u010devi\u0107 and Tatum just four games to work on whatever chemistry they can develop. That’s not a lot of time, but Mazzulla believes the team can lean on Vu\u010devi\u0107\u2019s experience to get him through any rough patches.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s been around a long time,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cI think a lot of it is more about just in-game communication on both ends of the floor. But through the work with [Celtics assistant] Amile [Jefferson] and film sessions, and he\u2019s been around a long time, he’s a smart player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vu\u010devi\u0107\u2019 has played 12 games for the Celtics, averaging 10.4 points and 7.2 rebounds. His best game was a 28-point, 11-rebound performance against the Brooklyn Nets. Jaylen Brown says Vu\u010devi\u0107\u2019 needs to be aggressive for the Celtics to be at their best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what we need from him, make or miss,\u201d Brown said after that Nets game. \u201cWe need him to be aggressive. That’s why he’s here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there’s been one constant this season for the Boston Celtics, it\u2019s that there has always been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116353713477858741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700075","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=700075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}