The Celtics will be without All-Star guard Kemba Walker and center Robert Williams for Game 4 of their first-round series with the Brooklyn Nets at TD Garden on Sunday night.
Walker is dealing with a bone bruise in his left knee that he suffered in Game 2. Williams left Game 3 with a sprained left ankle and has been dealing with turf toe for several weeks.
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said before the game that he didn’t expect Walker or Williams to play as Boston looks to even the series at two games apiece.
Stevens said Walker felt something in his knee in Game 2, and he was listed on the injury report with a bone bruise before Game 3. While he did get eight rebounds in Boston’s 125-119 victory, he also shot 3-for-14 from the field and scored just six points in 34 minutes.
“I don’t know what the exact moment was, but he said he felt it in Game 2,” Stevens said. “He had three days off in between Game 2 and Game 3 but was really sore. He has his typical knee work that he does in between each day and each game, and then the bone bruise on top of that, and then was more sore after Friday’s game than he was even before that.
