Darko has strained ligaments in wrist

Freaking great. Time to shut Darko down for the pre-season. He has shown enough to make the team, now we need him healthy.


http://www.csnne.com/basketball-boston-celtics/celtics-talk/Milicic-wrist-contemplates-cortisone-sho?blockID=789269&feedID=10946


Milicic (wrist) contemplates cortisone shot


October 15, 2012, 10:29 pm

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PHILADELPHIA — It's a good thing that Danny Ainge made adding lots of big men a priority this season.

Because it's looking more and more like he'll need them all.

Darko Milicic has played with a strained ligaments injury in his right wrist
for a while that was re-aggravated in Boston's 107-75 loss to
Philadelphia on Monday.

The pain is so severe now that he's contemplating having a cortisone shot to help alleviate the pain.

"I'm thinking about it," Milicic told CSNNE.com. "It (the pain) went away
and I forgot about it. And I landed on it, and I got hit on it, and got
hit on it and some other stupid (bleep) … the pain keeps coming back."


The pain has been there for a while, Milicic said.

But now it's to the point where the pain has limited his wrist's mobility.

"I can't do this," says Milicic, as he tries to turn his wrist clock-wise and then, counter clock-wise.

"I can't move it up either," he adds, as he holds his hand palms down, and tries to bend the wrist upwards.

Sitting out and letting it rest is another option, but Milicic is quick to shoot that down.

"It's not really one of the options I want to take," he said. "We'll see."

Milicic has been among the Celtics' biggest surprises thus far in camp. With
Chris Wilcox out indefinitely with a back injury, Milicic has played his
way into the regular big man rotation off the bench along with rookie
Jared Sullinger.

If the Celtics decide to shut him down for some
or all of the remainder of the preseason, that likely means more playing
time for veteran big man Jason Collins and Sullinger, who is also in
the hunt to start for the C's at power forward.



bob


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