Ainge: KG Has Strained Calf, Will Miss Couple Weeks At Most

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Rejoice Celtics fans. Danny Ainge has passed along the news while appearing on WEEI 850 in Boston that the team has received the results on Kevin Garnett’s MRI on his right leg. A few of the highlights from the injury report, with a full transcript on the way from Ainge’s interview:

• It is a muscle strain in the calf
• Garnett should be out a couple of weeks at the most
• The injury has nothing to do with the knee

Once again, all of this news is fairly consistent with what we heard from Doc and other C’s personnel last night. Much more on this story as we get it, along with full analysis, but for now looks like the C’s dodged a huge bullet with this minor injury for their All-Star power forward. Here’s the rest of Ainge’s remarks complied from the interview, which you will be able to hear in full at weei.com

Ainge On KG:

“He may be out for a couple of weeks at the most.”

“My biggest fear is wearing Paul and Ray out.”

“It’s not just Rondo out, but Delonte out and we’ve had the injuries to Shaq and Jermaine and now they’re back and that’s going to help. It’s going to be hard to maintain the same pace that we’re playing at right now without Rajon and KG. Doc is going to have to be creative…. Like he did the other night using Marquis at the 1.

Ainge on Perk:

“We’re just taking it week by week. He’s not coming back within the next week or two. We’ll evaluate it in a couple of weeks. Our timetable has been the middle of February and we’ll keep it there until we know he’s healthy.”

Ainge on Rondo:

“Rajon is getting better. It was a pretty severe sprain as you could see on TV. He could play but he’s still in pain. He has pain on both sides of the ankle. We don’t want to get him back on the court until he can play hard.”