CHARLOTTE — Sam Hauser is day-to-day with back pain and called his recovery a work in progress after returning from a three game absence with the pain on Wednesday at Indiana. Hauser played only 13:50 while shooting 1-of-4 from three in the overtime loss.
He’s active for the first half of the Celtics’ back-to-back in Charlotte and is hoping he doesn’t have to manage it for a long time. Hauser initially noticed the pain when he woke up following opening night, though he didn’t feel any pain in the win over the Knicks.