Tristan Thompson’s injured hamstring could keep him out of Boston’s season-opener on Dec. 23, Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Saturday.
The 6-foot-9 center, whom the Celtics signed to a two-year, $19 million contract in November, “has not been in any part of practice yet,” Stevens said.
The lost practice time is especially concerning, Stevens said, because Thompson, who has career averages of 9.4 points and 8.7 rebounds over nine seasons, all with the Cleveland Cavaliers, hasn’t played an NBA game since March.
The Cavaliers, last in the Eastern Conference, didn’t qualify for the pandemic-induced NBA “bubble” near Orlando, Fla., to finish off last season.
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