Gordon Hayward was scheduled to have surgery last night at New England Baptist Hospital, according to the Celtics forward’s agent.
Mark Bartelstein added that tests revealed a potential best-case scenario, in that Hayward, who fractured his left tibia and dislocated the ankle during a gruesome fall early in Tuesday night’s season opener against the Cavaliers in Cleveland, apparently suffered a so-called “clean break.”
“That’s fair to say,” Bartelstein said. “We still have to see what they find when they go in, and then we’ll have more to say. But it looks like a clean break. There’s nothing right now in terms of a timeline.