{"id":314026,"date":"2025-11-26T03:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314026\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:20:15","slug":"celtics-injury-report-starter-downgraded-for-pistons-game-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314026\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics injury report: Starter downgraded for Pistons game Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Celtics<\/a> will be without Neemias Queta<\/a> for Wednesday\u2019s game against the Pistons, the team announced Tuesday. Boston\u2019s starting center has been declared out due to a sprained left ankle suffered in Sunday\u2019s win over the Magic. It will be the first game that Queta has missed this season. <\/p>\n

Queta did not take part in Celtics practice on Tuesday at the Auerbach Center but was spotted walking across the court under his own power afterwards. Joe Mazzulla declined to comment on his condition, but Queta\u2019s teammates acknowledged that the team would need to step up in his absence. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t really have a guy that like replaces what Neemi does for us,\u201d Derrick White said. \u201cIt\u2019s gotta be just a group effort, obviously [Xavier], Luka, Chris, like they\u2019re gonna get a bigger chance and,we\u2019re gonna need a lot from them, but it\u2019s also on us. We don\u2019t have Neemi back there to kinda take out some of the problems or the mistakes we make on the perimeter. It\u2019s gonna be a team effort, rebounding and everything. Hopefully he comes back as quickly as possible, but we all got to step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queta has been one of the biggest standouts on the Celtics roster through a 9-8 start, averaging a career-high 9.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. His impact is even greater when assessing the on\/off numbers with him on the court as he sports a plus-17 net rating. The Celtics are a far superior defensive team with Queta on the floor this year, allowing 25.7 points per 100 possessions fewer in his 402 minutes on the court. <\/p>\n

Without Queta available, the Celtics will need to turn to a combination of Xavier Tillman, Chris Boucher and Luka Garza to soak up some of the center minutes. Boston is also going to call up rookie two-way center Amari Williams from Maine for at least the matchup against the Pistons. Joe Mazzulla also opted to play small ball at center in Sunday\u2019s win with Queta sidelined, giving Josh Minott and Jordan Walsh lengthy stretches as centers in the victory. <\/p>\n

The Pistons come into town with one of the best front courts in the league led by Jalen Duran. Detroit is riding a 13-game winning streak for the matchup, which tips off at 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday night at TD Garden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics will be without Neemias Queta for Wednesday\u2019s game against the Pistons, the team announced Tuesday. Boston\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-314026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}