Celtics wing Jaylen Brown suffered a right ankle sprain in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Hawks on Tuesday. He will not return to the game.
Brown was driving to the basket with 9:15 to play in the first quarter when he went down and immediately grabbed his right leg. The 25-year-old lost control of the ball and stayed down until Boston called a timeout. He immediately went to the locker room, and the Celtics subsequently announced that the injury was a sprain.
Heading into the All-Star break, Boston was on a roll with much of its success behind the play of Brown and Jayson Tatum.