Brad Stevens was interviewed before the regular season finale against the New York Knicks. Boston\u2019s injury report was lengthy, and their top seven players were all ruled out as they needed rest and recovery before the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cJayson and Evan are out.\u201d Stevens said plainly, and it\u2019s not surprising based on the team\u2019s seeding; Kemba Walker, Robert Williams, Marcus, and Tristan Thompson were all ruled out for last game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenging year\u201d said Coach Stevens, \u201ca lot of guys will be available and will be playing\u2026 the play-in games are going to be exciting for fans\u2026 once you get into the playoffs and teams dial into the playoffs and prepare for each other, you see everybody\u2019s levels rise\u2026 I anticipate the playoffs will be great.\u201d<\/p>\n
With players trying to get healthy, Stevens said \u201cWe\u2019ll find out more when we hit the practice court tomorrow with those guys and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brad Stevens was interviewed before the regular season finale against the New York Knicks. Boston\u2019s injury report was lengthy, and their top seven players were all ruled out as they needed rest and recovery before the play-in tournament. \u201cJayson and Evan are out.\u201d Stevens said plainly, and it\u2019s not surprising based on the team\u2019s seeding;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\n