{"id":519549,"date":"2026-03-07T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:38:07","slug":"boston-celtics-rule-out-nikola-vucevic-with-fractured-right-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519549\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics rule out Nikola Vucevic with fractured right finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BOSTON &#8212; Celtics center Nikola Vucevic fractured the ring finger on his right hand during Friday night&#8217;s 120-100 win over the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vucevic is expected to undergo a procedure Saturday for the fracture and will miss approximately a month, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vucevic played just two minutes before exiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friday marked Vucevic&#8217;s 12th game since joining Boston following a trade from the Chicago Bulls before the deadline last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 15-year NBA veteran was averaging 11.4 points and 7.8 rebounds and 23.5 minutes for the Celtics, providing the team with much-needed depth in the frontcourt alongside unproven centers Neemias Queta and Luka Garza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vucevic&#8217;s exit came on the same night superstar Jayson Tatum played his first game in 10 months after recovering from a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; Celtics center Nikola Vucevic fractured the ring finger on his right hand during Friday night&#8217;s 120-100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[98723,49,48,459,205143,82],"class_list":["post-519549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-2","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nikola-vucevic-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-457598","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}