{"id":357065,"date":"2025-12-19T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:59:12","slug":"boston-celtics-injury-report-2-rotation-players-listed-for-heat-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357065\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics injury report: 2 rotation players listed for Heat game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/\" title=\"Navigate to Celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a>Published: Dec. 18, 2025, 7:10 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Jazz Celtics Basketball\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/YWOXO6Q2SFGJZHEJQH7Z5KDECI.jpg\"  \/>Boston Celtics forward Josh Minott (8) during an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo\/Charles Krupa)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V6HUBITUMFGSFHVX5OXT2SDBV4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/brad-stevens-juggling-happy-problem-ahead-of-celtics-trade-deadline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/brad-stevens-juggling-happy-problem-ahead-of-celtics-trade-deadline.html\">The Celtics<\/a> have two rotation players listed on their injury report ahead of their 7 p.m. Friday game against the Heat at TD Garden. Sam Hauser (left ankle sprain) and Josh Minott (low back spasm) are probable for Friday\u2019s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/brad-stevens-explains-notable-jayson-tatum-detail-in-achilles-rehab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/brad-stevens-explains-notable-jayson-tatum-detail-in-achilles-rehab.html\">Jayson Tatum <\/a>remains out with his Achilles rehab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GQSATKANHZHZPO6RV7RQGWFTCE\">Hauser sprained his left ankle in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/4-takeaways-as-celtics-lose-to-pistons-after-brutal-shooting-night.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/12\/4-takeaways-as-celtics-lose-to-pistons-after-brutal-shooting-night.html\">Monday\u2019s loss to the Pistons<\/a> in the first half, forcing him to miss the rest of the night. The probable designation is a plus that it isn\u2019t a long-term injury. Minott\u2019s low back spasm is also new, though it also doesn\u2019t sound too serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HP5FYN3OJ5G4JEGJUSKGWS7VQ4\">The Celtics have cooled during this extended stretch without many games due to the NBA Cup scheduling. They lost both games added to their schedule, falling to the Bucks on the road then at home against the Pistons. But they\u2019re still 15-11, good for fourth place in a jam-packed East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2QHGQQVXMFF5LHT5GQ5IMH43PQ\">The Heat will also be on the second game of a back-to-back as they face the Nets in Brooklyn on Thursday. Miami brings in a 14-12 record as it has a top-10 net rating in the league. It\u2019ll be a big game for both teams considering it could matter in the standings come April.<\/p>\n<p>Souichi covers the Celtics for MassLive.com, starting in 2021. Previously, he covered Missouri athletics for the Kansas City Star, along with stops at the Detroit Free Press, Minnesota Star Tribune and The&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CelticsPublished: Dec. 18, 2025, 7:10 p.m.Boston Celtics forward Josh Minott (8) during an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-357065","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\/357065","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=357065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}