If Boston Celtics fans were gearing up to baptize Kyrie Irving’s return to TD Garden with a shower of boos, they’ll have a to wait a little longer.
The Brooklyn Nets announced the Duke product will miss his next three games with the team — away games for the new-look Nets — beginning with the New York Knicks on Nov. 24, followed by the Cleveland Cavaliers on Nov. 25 and continuing at least for Brooklyn’s first visit to Boston of the season (Nov. 27).
Kyrie, who has missed the team’s last three games due to an impinged shoulder that was likely sustained in the team’s 119-114 loss to the Utah Jazz, will be sitting for the near-future in order to get his shoulder right.
It’s possible that playing against the Denver Nuggets two days after facing the Jazz likely exacerbated the controversial point guard’s injury.
“I think he really gutted that one out, quite honestly,” Nets Head coach Kenny Atkinson said (courtesy of the New York Daily News’ Kristian Winfield). “Then we reconvened after that and said we have to get this thing right. For his long-term health and our long-term plan as a team.”
For any Celtics fans lusty to berate their former floor general on the team’s home court, they’ll get another shot on Mar. 3.