Kemba Walker may not be available for the Celtics on opening night when the season begins roughly a month from now, due to a lingering knee issue.<\/p>\n
The latest update coming from head coach Brad Stevens who appeared on this week’s Bob Ryan and Jeff Goodman Podcast<\/a> on the CLNS Media Network<\/a>. Stevens expects the start to the regular season to be similar to that which preceded Boston’s bubble run.<\/p>\n “Very similar to what we did at the beginning of the bubble,” Stevens told Ryan and Goodman. “I think there’ll be a transition like that because of the shortened season, the shortened offseason. It’ll be some time before he’s going full speed for us for sure.”<\/p>\n As for whether Walker will be ready for the opener or perhaps even miss the beginning of the season, Stevens said he’s not yet sure.<\/p>\n “We haven’t settled on any timelines, this is more of a plan appropriately thing, so that he can play and play uninhibited as he moves forward, a lot like the bubble,” Stevens said. “The bubble was unique, because you went basically four months off, so there was a different challenge there in that ramping up was a big threat to everybody, but certainly if you had a situation like his where if he goes too fast, too soon that probably wouldn’t have been good. Here it’s just too soon until the season. So I anticipate, again, we’ll be slow with him as the season starts, as\u00a0 practice starts.”<\/p>\n