Boston Celtics two way point guard Tremont Waters has been cleared from the NBA’s concussion protocol to play in today’s scrimmage exhibition game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the team’s first game against another team since March 10th, via multiple sources.
Waters suffered an injury in practice necessitating entry into the league’s stringent concussion protocol earlier in the week at the Disney-hosted restart, but did not seem to be in especially bad shape given the tenor of discussion around the injury.
In fact, the LSU product was anticipated to be available for the contest given head coach Brad Stevens’ comments at a post-practice media presser.
Tremont Waters is a full go today after clearing the concussion protocol.
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) July 24, 2020
There, he implied the team had 16 players available with point guard Kemba Walker already known to be a planned absence due to knee load management.
The two way guard may not see a huge amount of floor time despite Walker’s rest in this first game back from the protocol, but coach Stevens had expressed previously that he expects the Connecticut native to see much floor time in at least one of the three scrimmages.
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