Kevin Garnett left game with right knee injury

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UPDATE: Here’s what Doc Rivers had to say after the game, per Boston.com: “He wanted to run but we have a long season and I’m not taking a risk by putting him on the floor. We would have loved to have him, obviously, it probably would have made a difference. Unless he’s close to 100 percent, I’d rather have him healthy for the playoffs. That’s how I look at it.”

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And suddenly the complaints about the bench seem pretty silly. Brian will have more on this later, but here’s the quick and ugly: KG is hurt, and it appears to be a right knee injury.

He went up for a lob in the second quarter and landed on his left leg in what looked like a run-of-the-mill botched lob. But something happened to his right leg, and KG came up hopping on his left foot. He hopped directly to the locker room.

KG warmed up before the second half, hoping to play, but he shut it down pretty quickly. For now, the team is terming the injury a “knee strain,” whatever that means.

The broadcast team initially reported KG would have an X-ray tomorrow, but Danny Ainge wouldn’t confirm that during an interview with Cheryl Miller early in the third quarter.  Ainge did say KG is sore, and that the knee has been bothering Garnett for “a couple of weeks.”

Fingers crossed, everyone.