Walking Wounded Update: Updates on Pierce, KG, and Rondo’s Status for Next Week

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It’s halftime and the C’s have a tidy 10 point lead against the Raptors. We’ll have more on that later, but there was a lot of news today in the pregame tonight from Doc and company regarding the status of the injured starters. Chris Forsberg of ESPNBoston.com gets us up to date on the latest:

First KG:

“KG’s still 10 days, maybe, I don’t know,” said Rivers. “I have no idea, I honestly don’t. There is some history with hyperextended knees that we kind of know that it takes at least two weeks, sometimes three. We know it won’t be longer than that, but we don’t know how quickly. There’s a history there — not with [Garnett] — but with league history.”

That’s not good…..sounds a little hokey but the time to be cautious is now. Give the guy all the rest he needs.

Next, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo:

“Rondo and Paul would be first in line,” said Rivers. “I think Rondo will play in the Miami game. I think Paul is 50/50, he’ll try to practice on Monday and we’ll see how it feels,” said Rivers. “With infections, hell, we don’t know how to treat that, nobody [here] has ever had that. We’ll find that out. We don’t know what will happen once he practices. It could swell, it could feel great. We just have to wait and see.”

So there you have it. Mike Gorman commented that he has a “feeling” we wouldn’t see The Truth until the end of next week and given the fact that Pierce commented he still can’t bend his knee fully right now, a Wednesday return seems a bit optimistic, even maybe foolish to push it that hard, so soon.

Back to the game for now, much more on these injuries and tonight’s game in the upcoming hours.