{"id":371687,"date":"2025-12-26T18:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371687\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:51:06","slug":"celtics-injury-report-starter-upgraded-ahead-of-pacers-game-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371687\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics injury report: Starter upgraded ahead of Pacers game Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Walsh was upgraded on the Celtics injury report ahead of their 7 p.m. Friday game against the Pacers in Indiana. He\u2019s now available to play. Walsh was originally listed as probable on the injury report with an illness.<\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum (Achilles) and Chris Boucher (personal reasons) are out, but otherwise, the C\u2019s are at full strength. Boston is currently on a three-game win streak, including a comeback win over the Pacers <\/a>on Monday.<\/p>\n

Walsh sat the victory over the Pacers due to the illness. His absence resulted in Josh Minott getting the start for the Celtics. However, it\u2019s been the Hugo Gonzalez show<\/a> over the past few games as the rookie has played the best basketball of his young career.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen who will start Friday for the Celtics. Walsh could continue to get the nod as he\u2019s been the breakout wing in Boston thus far. Gonzalez has certainly made a recent push to earn more playing time.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are currently 18-11 on the season, good for third place in the East. They started the season slow, but they\u2019ve been on a recent tear<\/a>. The Pacers enter Friday\u2019s game with a 6-24 record, 14th in the East, as they\u2019ve been decimated by injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Walsh was upgraded on the Celtics injury report ahead of their 7 p.m. Friday game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-371687","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\/371687","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=371687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}