The Washington Wizards travel to TD Garden to take on the Boston Celtics today, Jan. 8 at 7 pm ET despite some COVID-19 concern over their recent game with the Philadelphia 76ers, evidently cleared to play without any precautionary quarantining.
Not so for the Celtics, who will see players Tristan Thompson, and Grant and Robert Williams all sitting after Time Lord reportedly returned a positive test for the virus. They will join Kemba Walker and Romeo Langford as definite scratches, the latter two still working their way back from injury, as well as possibly Jeff Teague, listed as questionable with an ankle sprain.
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The Wizards are fresh off that close loss to the 76ers that saw guard Bradley Beal score a career-high 60 points, while Boston recently defeated the Miami Heat narrowly after a day of violence at the U.S. capitol.
Normally this would be an easy win for Boston, with Washington among the East’s worst teams at 2-6, but the paper-thin frontcourt rotation of just Daniel Theis and two way center Tacko Fall looks to be a potential weak spot for the health Wiz to exploit.
Washington has won the last two meetings between the clubs, this one could very well go that way too should the Celtics not bring their “A game” too bear on this tilt — or what they have left of it, given how many key players they will be without.
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