There's nobody the Celtics could have afforded to lose less this year than Marcus Smart. Unfortunately that is something they have had to deal with early on, as the second-year guard went down with a "a subluxation of the proximal tibfib joint" in a blowout win over Brooklyn.
The injury occurred on November 20 and a mysteriousness has surrounded it ever since, with little clarity on his return besides a two-four week prognosis and the team calling it a "unique" diagnosis.
That was until this morning, on 98.5 The Sport Hub's Toucher and Rich morning show, where Danny Ainge's regular appearance shed some light on the outlook for Smart:
“He’s in working out doing his therapy.