After starting the column saying that Pierce almost went to an ambulance instead of the court after his knee injury, Chris Sheridan dropped this string of hysteria:
After the game, Pierce was walking with a pronounced limp as he exited the postgame interview room and headed back to the locker room, but some 45 minutes later the injury was clearly bothering him more.
As he walked to his car, Pierce was still wearing his warm-ups. The snaps along the right side were hanging open, revealing a wrapping of several ace bandages from the bottom of his calf to the top of his thigh, an additional layer of white tape wrapped around the lower half of his hamstring, ending just above his knee.
Pierce's feet moved no more than 12 inches with each step, and as you watched him begin to navigate the four flights of stairs from the locker room level to the players' parking lot, you couldn't help but wonder exactly how much adrenalin had fueled his comeback. The knee injury could also keep him out of Game 2 or, at the very least, reduce his effectiveness.
Listen- when your leg is wrapped from top to bottom with Ace bandages, that's because it's being stabilized and iced down. You can't possibly not walk with a limp... now I don't know the severity of Pierce's injury, but his mobility was fine during the game. The med staff is going to blast that leg with ice, electro-stim, and wraps for the next couple days because that's what you do! Many athletes take ice baths or wrap their legs in ice several times a week, whether they're hurt or not! I don't know that Pierce will be 100%, but I know for a fact that the signs that this is shrill fearmongering are way over the top:
If the Celtics don't get both of them back at something approaching full strength, this could go down as the night Boston lost the series despite winning the game.
Please. Don't listen to this garbage. This is highly unlikely. Now, Perkins' ankle may be a legit worry because while he returned the sideline, he didn't return to the game. Still, the Celtics were playing great without him so that could have just been conservative on Doc's part (which was good, along with limiting Pierce in the 4th). Perkins told Doc he was "60 percent"- but no one really knows what that means.
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