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Gordon Hayward to Reportedly Miss Four Weeks
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Sixers catch a break in their first-round playoff series:
Celtics’ Gordon Hayward has a Grade 3 right ankle sprain and will miss four weeks.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 18, 2020
Likely this means Marcus Smart enters the starting lineup, and then you can very easily justify taking Al Horford out for Matisse Thybulle and trying to match a smaller Celtics lineup.
The matchups would look something like this:
- Shake Milton –> Kemba Walker (or Smart)
- Josh Richardson –> Marcus Smart (or Kemba)
- Matisse Thybulle –> Jayson Tatum
- Tobias Harris –> Jaylen Brown
- Joel Embiid –> Daniel Theis
Something like that.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com